five...

five years old for talen yesterday...

 happy birthday to you talen william!

this boy was thrilled with a bucket full of sporting goods of course...wouldn't have it any other way!

the golden ticket...his very own catcher's glove of his size that daddy and ryley picked up for him

after presents and breakfast we were off to new hampshire for ryley's baseball game...

then we took a ride to york for lunch, played on the beach, some arcade games, and

brown's icecream!

 

and then we came home for some #5 birthday cupcakes...

 talen made it VERY clear he did not want ANY help blowing out his candles from mr. blakie-blake!

best of birthday wishes to you, love you bud!



tee to the ball...

well i made my first coaching debut this spring as talen's t-ball coach.   i was a bit nervous at first but i'm very happy i took the plunge, a great group of lil ball players...

the only downfall of coaching is not being able to take pictures! so i have a few phone pictures and was able to take pictures at our last game this weekend.

you know the saying, "you look good, you play good".  always been a fan of that.  well i went with the saying, "organization is the key to success" this t-ball season and got all "organizational" on my team.  of course my dear husband and eldest son thought i was crazy, but guess what, it worked!

each player had their own bin with their name on it to keep their drink, glove and hat inbetween innings while we were batting that were all lined up against the fence each game.  no lil kids running around saying "where's my glove?", "is that my drink?"  i also had a batting line up chart that we hung on the fence each game.  thank you velcro strips for the ability to change the line up each game because whoever bats last gets to hit a "homerun" and run  all the bases! 

 talen was a lil slugger on the team!  we also got to pitch to the kids if they didn't want a tee...

 this boy has been at the baseball fields since the day he came home from the hospital when he was born...

 happy as a clam to finally be out there on his own team...

my team loved them some eye black, and even our lil mascot blakie had to have it...

after our last game this weekend we had "hot dog" day, an annual event in the league. i made our team certificates and star medals for such a great season!

and then we were off to the concession stand for our good ol' hot dogs...

as talen was sitting at the top of the hill against the fence i turned to my dad and told him i have the same pictures of ryley sitting against the fence with his friends on t-ball hotdog day...

that's ryman in the middle above and the 1st kiddo in the bottom...

 from t-ball days to now hitting home run days...

thanks for a great season t-dawg and friends!

buh-bye pre-school...

well my boy talen has finished up pre-school and off to full day kindergarten in the fall...tear!

those 2 years of pre-school sure did fly by...

his last day of preschool was wednesday so we were busy making end of the year teacher gifts...

 pencil flower pots...

talen cut out the flower petals with hole punchers then we used sticky dots to attach them to the pencil stems...stuck them into styrafoam blocks inside the pots covered with basket fill shred and there you have it!

bestest pre-school friend and/or girlfriend :)

and he completed kindergarten screening today :) 

we talked on the way there about how we was a nervous crying 3 year old for pre-school screening and he said that was because he was only 3.  he walked up those stairs with the rest of his group like a big kindergartner today, no tears.  mumma was having flashbacks of being in that building with ryley on the 1st day and him inbetween my legs with the tears rolling down his face.  boy they grow up so fast...