Baseball and Butterflies

Getting ready to feed our butterflies and add fresh flowers

Checking out the butterflies

Luke and Liam's T-ball team for Summer 2013-The Blue Baboons

Getting ready to bat

Luke and Liam (and another Luke on far right)

Luke hitting the ball

Liam and Luke in outfield

Trying to get Daddy out

Good game!  Score was 98 to 1 and Blue Baboons won!

Aiden at the park this week


We have three butterflies this week!  We had three caterpillars that changed to a chrysalis and then all three survived and became butterflies.  The boys have been helping to feed and care for the butterflies all week.  We will likely let them go later this week.   We had some really odd weather for July over the weekend and it was almost a little too cool for the butterflies who prefer the temps to be around 70 degrees.  It should warm up this week so that we can let them go in the backyard.

Luke and Liam played their first team sport over the summer.  They have done a few little camps here and there at the fitness center, but we decided to try t-ball this summer.  We missed the first two weeks, unfortunately, because we were on vacation but we picked it up at the end of June and all of July (twice weekly).  They loved it.  I am not sure they learned a lot, but they had a great time and got to see what it is like to play on a team.  They worked on some basic skills and practiced playing in the field, playing against another team, hitting, catching, running the bases, and a few rules of the game.  The name of their team was the Blue Baboons!

Overall, I am certain their favorite parts were: 1) Parents vs. Kids game, 2) Getting a hat and t-shirt for "free" and 3) Going out for ice cream a few times.  John played in the parents vs. kids game on the last day and the boys thought it was the best thing ever.  They were so excited to beat the parents by a score of 98 to 1.  All of their other "games" ended in a tie so they really wanted to win one of them.  It was a lot of fun and both boys agreed they want to play again next year so they must have enjoyed it.

Aiden is still progressing.  Not walking yet, but his crazy personality is back so its more of a job to keep him busy.  We are trying to help him become comfortable with walking again.  We practice standing, coasting a little on furniture, and taking maybe 3-4 small steps.  He is still very fearful and his leg still doesn't feel normal to him.  It is going to take a lot more work on his part and ours to get back to normal for him.