T-Ball & Three Year Olds

My big boy started T-Ball just recently and had his first game this past Saturday. Unfortunately I had to work, but I snapped some shots pre-game, and had Grandma and Grandpa L. take some for me during the game, since Daddy was busy assistant coaching.

Three year old t-ball is not like regular t-ball. Sure, you have all the same stuff, like the uniform, the field, the players, and the coaches.

But...

You also have some extra stuff.

Like a hat brim that shades your entire body instead of just your face...

A uniform that is three sizes too big, and a batting helmet that makes you top heavy...

Coaches and parents in the outfield during the game...

Daddy by your side to help you remember what to do...

And your game played on a partial field with only half your players, while the other half play on the other part of the field.

But, if you look closely, you can see a ball in the air, thrown by #5...my cutie pie, who ALMOST got another player out. He also got some runs and had a blast.

I am SO proud and can't wait to see his next game on Friday!!

DC Cherry Blossoms

Well...it took me 24 years to make it downtown to see the DC Cherry Blossoms, but I finally did it! Josh took off Friday from work and we bravely made our way downtown. The traffic was HORRIBLE so we headed over to Union Station to park, where we hopped a double decker tour bus, which Tyler has been wanting to do forever anyway.

One of the stops on the tour bus was the Jefferson Memorial, which put us on the bottom part of the Tidal Basin which is where a lot of the Cherry Blossoms are, so we figured - that works awesome. They told us that we would probably wait an hour for a bus, but we thought that was better than waiting in traffic to find a parking spot close by.

However, we got lucky and hopped right on a bus - how convenient, right?

Wrong. We got as far as the Washington Monument when the bus driver stated "this is the stop for the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials." What?? The Jefferson is like a million miles from the Washington Monument...we must be hearing wrong.

Not. Because of the traffic the tour buses were not running their loop around the tidal basin. How nice to tell us BEFORE we purchased tickets, since that was our destination to begin with...

So, we walked from the Washington Monument, down one side of the tidal basin to get some good shots of the Jefferson Memorial and the beautiful cherry blossoms.

Then, we walked to the FDR Memorial, and to the Lincoln Memorial, since Tyler has been dying to see "the big guy that gets up and walks with all the bird poop" from Night at the Museum 2.

After that, we walked to the Korean War Memorial, and then to the WW2 Memorial.

Then back past the White House and to the bus stop at the White House Visitor Center (after a quick stop at the Roosevelt Building for a potty break and a smoothie).

We took the bus back to Union Station past the Capitol again and then drove home, where Tyler promptly fell asleep in the car, while Josh and I tried not to.

Despite all the walking, it was a great day, and I definitely had a fun time seeing the blossoms and enjoying the time with my family.

Will we do it again next year? Probably not...