Here is the team as cute as can be. You can see Georgia all smiles second from left. The parents were beaming and so proud with the anticipation of the first pitches and hits! Little did they know!!!!!
And here she is. The lead off batter. (They are supposed to be able to make contact right.) Her mom and dad were so excited because she has come so far from the start of practices. She can really rip a ball to the outfield now and we felt a rush of pride as she went up to the plate. First pitch way to high.... but she swung. Second a foul tip, third....... she struck out. Now Georgia you must have forgotten that your dad is a P.E. teacher and your mom is pretty athletic as well. I mean how embarassing. I'M JUST KIDDING!! She turned things around. She had a nice crack to second base.... ONLY TO GET CALLED OUT AT FIRST! I mean by the time she got to first I had read the entire first Act of Hamlet. Come on turn on the jets Georgia. ;)
It was such a windy day yesterday we decided to make a patriotic wind sock for flag day. First we gathered some supplies- a cylindrical container, glue, scissors, construction paper and string. Also we needed a hole punch (or something to poke holes) and streamers.
We took off the hot chocolate wrapper and re-covered our hot chocolate container with blue construction paper.
I cut out some red and white stars for Josie to glue on as a decoration.
Then we found some crepe paper streamers that will blow nicely in the wind. Josie thought it was genius that she figured out to reach inside both sides of the container to help in the taping.
Lastly Mom poked some holes, tied some string and voila, we made a wind sock.
This is what I did yesterday. Just wander around picking up after our Hurricane Emeline. I've learned that she is not in playing nicely with her sister in the playroom. No, she is somewhere quite causing the equivalent to a natural disaster. She just opens the drawer or closet and starts chucking stuff. What a bad girl. Potty training is so-so. I didn't expect anything. She was successful once! Josie spent yesterday pretty quiet because of her ear and actually Georgia stayed home in the morning because her ear ached. Her first game was cancelled yesterday because of the rain. Looks like her game tomorrow will more than likely be rescheduled too.
When Dad and Georgia got home from school we did some more yard work. My iris garden is almost in full bloom. The brother and sister in law of a friend of mine (Jenny P) gave me these flowers a couple of years ago. I just love them.
Aren't they beautiful!
Have you ever seen one of these? I never had until yesterday. It was on Brad's shoulder. Upon some research I discovered it is an eyed elater click beetle. Supposedly if you turn it over on its back it plays dead. After some time it will arch it's back and flip itself up to 6 inches in the air to right itself. When it flips over it makes a loud clicking noise. Wish I had flipped the bugger on its backside now!!
Bandit went nuts over this bug. What a watch dog!
Yesterday I finally got some flower pots finished to flank our bridge. I have wanted to do this for years just never have. They are a little skimpy right now but they should fill out nice.
Yep they look good!
Emmy enjoyed Dad's end of the year baseball party. This is her new smile.
Daddy took advantage of a fun baseball game. Boy can he really hit the ball. HOME RUN!
Josie has been complaining of an ear ache on and off for the past couple of days. Must be all the time spent outside in the strong wind we have had is taking its toll. She stayed inside today and started her first chapter book. Go Josie Go!!
Today I tried tilling the garden again. It is taking me a while. Little people have a hard time keeping occupied by themselves so I usually only get one pass at a time
We also took care of the ducks today. When the ducks see Em they go right to their house- can you blame them.
Em is like her mommy, she loves animals. Here she is giving love to Tommy the cat.
Remember the not so scary places Em used to get stuck in? Under the bed, under a chair. Well, while we had the dish washer open last night she decided she would crawl onto the door. It was all fun until she realized she was "stuck"!
Emeline the little rascal didn't help out much at all!!
The three little cousins sported some Patriotic crowns that I made.
Em, Jo and I were asked to work at the book fair at "Georgia's" school. What fun. Both of my older girls aspire to be "check out girls" one day so this gave Jo a little taste. She, of course, loved all of the buttons (thus the reason behind her aspiration) that were required to check people out. It was also pretty neat to give back change. Georgia even stopped in to say hello. 
