Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Rain, Rain, Rain
Ian's season opener for baseball was supposed to be tonight at 5:30pm, but we are rained out. Bummer! He really enjoys his new team, the coaches, practices and everything about it! He continues to improve and will be playing outfield and a little at first base. His hitting has improved significantly and I'm looking forward to watching him as well as his team! He continues to sport #4. He is well aware that #4 was Pop-pop's number when he played sports. I love the fact he wants to wear that number in honor of him. There will be a different look this season with his fan club. We learned after last season that parents wear the team jerseys with their son's number on the back. Last season just Cailean ordered one because he was going to help with coaching. But, all the moms had them on as well at the games (except me). So...this season...not only will I wear a #4 jersey and Cailean and Gavin (and Ian of course), but also his Mimi, Grammie and Pop-pop! Very cool and yes...I'll take pictures! Ian's class is going on a field trip tomorrow to the zoo and I'm going as a chaperone. The good thing is that I don't have to use vacation time from work because NC State promotes community service and they count chaperoning on school field trips as community service! So, I'm excited about that! The weather is not looking to great, but we'll be going rain or shine. Cailean and Gavin might be going to the zoo as well. We'll make that decision last minute. Gavin enjoys his time at soccer on Saturday mornings. They play either 3 on 3 or 4 on 4 with no goalies. They practice for the first part and then scrimmage the last 30 minutes or so. His Mimi is there each week cheering him on! I've sent an email to the organization because the field is not handicapped accessible, so my grandparents cannot watch him play soccer again this season. He always sings at home. He sings songs from school. He sings songs from Sunday School. He just loves to sing, but doesn't want people to listen to him! I have two more payments to make for him to attend pre-school and then that comes to an end. I cannot believe that. This weekend will be interesting. Cailean and Ian head to the Spring Outing with the Y-Guides Friday-Sunday while Gavin and I enjoy time at home. I don't like being away from Ian. :-( He will be missing Opening Ceremonies with baseball and the first game of the season, which really stinks. But, the Spring Outing is an important event and they'll have a great time! Gavin wants to see HOP...the new movie, so we'll probably do that. Don't forget to check out Ian's baseball team's blog that I put together at www.westraleighriverdogs.blogspot.com
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The weather was perfect last Wednesday afternoon, so the boys and I met Jessica and her boys for a walk around Lake Pine and to feed the ducks. Actually, the 4 boys rode their scooters while Jessica and I walked. After the lap the kids played for a few minutes at the playground before heading home for dinner. Great weather here!
We went to Ian's 2 hour baseball practice Thursday night. There's a basketball hoop there, so Gavin has plenty of activities to keep him busy. We play catch, play basketball, have a snack and watch practice together. He had an opportunity to run a relay race with some other kids after practice, so that was neat.
Friday night I enjoyed time with my friend, Mia, and a few others at the Kirk for scrapbooking. I love to scrapbook at this event because I get to spread out all my scrapbooking stuff and I end up making around 18 pages. It's a small group that meets and I love it.
While Mia and I were scrapbooking...Cailean took Ian and Gavin to a Garner HS baseball game. Ian's former coach (Coach Rick...Mia's husband) was umping the game and Timothy (their friend) was going to be there, too. I know they had a blast together!
Around 11:30pm Cailean's boss called to send him to what we thought was Richmond to inspect/fix a plane. It turns out it was Baltimore. At any rate, Cailean left shortly after the call to head to the airport. That left me at midnight thinking about how I was to be at 3 places at once (I was running a conference at work 7am-1pm, Gavin had soccer at 9:30am - which my mom was taking him to, and Ian had practice for 1 hour and then a 2 hour scrimmage). Thanks to Ian's coaches and a mom on the team...they kept an extra eye on Ian. Mom was a life saver again and picked up Gavin at the ballpark to take him to soccer and back to watch the end of the scrimmage. The boys went with me to work bright and early. LOL
Gavin scored a goal in his scrimmage after practice and Ian saw time at first base and hit a beautiful hit down the first base line and the ball ended up by the fence for him to earn a triple!!!
Another fun week ahead of us...
We went to Ian's 2 hour baseball practice Thursday night. There's a basketball hoop there, so Gavin has plenty of activities to keep him busy. We play catch, play basketball, have a snack and watch practice together. He had an opportunity to run a relay race with some other kids after practice, so that was neat.
Friday night I enjoyed time with my friend, Mia, and a few others at the Kirk for scrapbooking. I love to scrapbook at this event because I get to spread out all my scrapbooking stuff and I end up making around 18 pages. It's a small group that meets and I love it.
While Mia and I were scrapbooking...Cailean took Ian and Gavin to a Garner HS baseball game. Ian's former coach (Coach Rick...Mia's husband) was umping the game and Timothy (their friend) was going to be there, too. I know they had a blast together!
Around 11:30pm Cailean's boss called to send him to what we thought was Richmond to inspect/fix a plane. It turns out it was Baltimore. At any rate, Cailean left shortly after the call to head to the airport. That left me at midnight thinking about how I was to be at 3 places at once (I was running a conference at work 7am-1pm, Gavin had soccer at 9:30am - which my mom was taking him to, and Ian had practice for 1 hour and then a 2 hour scrimmage). Thanks to Ian's coaches and a mom on the team...they kept an extra eye on Ian. Mom was a life saver again and picked up Gavin at the ballpark to take him to soccer and back to watch the end of the scrimmage. The boys went with me to work bright and early. LOL
Gavin scored a goal in his scrimmage after practice and Ian saw time at first base and hit a beautiful hit down the first base line and the ball ended up by the fence for him to earn a triple!!!
Another fun week ahead of us...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Week of Birthdays and More
First...
Happy Birthday to Cailean's brother, Eric!!!!! (March 10)
Happy Birthday to my dad aka Grandpop!!!! (March 14)
Happy Birthday to Cailean's mom aka Nana!!!! (March 15)
Lots of family birthdays right around now! ;-)
We had a great weekend. Lots of action with soccer and baseball. The weather was perfect and I even have sunglass marks from being at the ball field on Sunday afternoon. Aunt Sandi is in town helping my mom out with my grandparents. Between mom needing to get stuff done and our schedules...unfortunately we didn't get to see her much on this visit. :-(
Ian had practice tonight at West Raleigh and we ended up doing a last minute scrimmage for just over 2 hours against another team, the Bulls. It was nice for the players to get the game situation and see where they are at. Gavin wants to learn the players' names, so he can be ready to announce. He told me last night he is going to retire from announcing at the end of the season because he'll be able to play next year! LOL
Dentist appointments for the boys tomorrow afternoon. Playdate with some friends afterwards. Hopefully there will be no rain. Practice on Thursday and I'm scrapbooking on Friday night. :-)
I started up a team blog for Ian's Riverdogs team. www.westraleighriverdogs.blogspot.com. Feel free to check it out! There will be a few parents taking pictures during the games, so I can upload them or connect it to their links. Should be a great year!
Happy Birthday to Cailean's brother, Eric!!!!! (March 10)
Happy Birthday to my dad aka Grandpop!!!! (March 14)
Happy Birthday to Cailean's mom aka Nana!!!! (March 15)
Lots of family birthdays right around now! ;-)
We had a great weekend. Lots of action with soccer and baseball. The weather was perfect and I even have sunglass marks from being at the ball field on Sunday afternoon. Aunt Sandi is in town helping my mom out with my grandparents. Between mom needing to get stuff done and our schedules...unfortunately we didn't get to see her much on this visit. :-(
Ian had practice tonight at West Raleigh and we ended up doing a last minute scrimmage for just over 2 hours against another team, the Bulls. It was nice for the players to get the game situation and see where they are at. Gavin wants to learn the players' names, so he can be ready to announce. He told me last night he is going to retire from announcing at the end of the season because he'll be able to play next year! LOL
Dentist appointments for the boys tomorrow afternoon. Playdate with some friends afterwards. Hopefully there will be no rain. Practice on Thursday and I'm scrapbooking on Friday night. :-)
I started up a team blog for Ian's Riverdogs team. www.westraleighriverdogs.blogspot.com. Feel free to check it out! There will be a few parents taking pictures during the games, so I can upload them or connect it to their links. Should be a great year!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Lovin' the South!
I put that title there because we have been hearing about all the snowstorms up in the northeast and especially in Cailean's hometown and my hometown. I remember those days and I do not miss shoveling at all!
We're in full swing down here with school, church and sports. I'll try to recap as best I can.
Ian -
He is working real hard in school, at home and on the ball field. He dreads completing his assigned homework 60% of the time, but yet he'll go to town writing letters to NC State student athletes when he is winding down in his bed. The other night he wrote an incredible story about Vermont. I'll have to scan the pages and post at some point. His school started up a Running Club a few months ago and Ian didn't want to join at the time. He recently started talking about it, so we waited for his baseball schedule and on Monday he participated for the first time. The kids walk/run around the track for around 1 hour. He ran around the track 23 times I think!
He likes to annoy his brother just as much as his brother likes to annoy him. He enjoys playing the Wii and going on Study Island for school. He enjoys playing outside whether it's going for a walk with me on his scooter, throwing the ball around or shooting hoops.
He finished his second practice last night as a Riverdog and he did sooooo well! Practice was cut short by about 30 minutes, but they still were able to accomplish a lot. He has practice tonight and then this weekend.
Ian is nearing the end of his PCPW class at church. On May 1 the class will receive bibles from the staff, so that will be an honor for him.
Gavin -
He has improved in his handwriting and always gives me the details about what he did in school in addition to who was missing from his class that day. He is very proud of himself when he eats everything in his lunch, too. It's the little things, right?! We have a lot of pre-school events to attend in May and then he'll graduate. Yes, I'll be a mess.
He started soccer and he wishes he can practice just as many times a week as Ian does! He remembers some of the kids on his team, but he has a new coach and some new teammates. This Saturday morning we'll be at the field bright and early for 8am practice.
He loves to stay home. He loves to play with Cody and hug him and pet him. He always checks on his dog! He enjoys playing basketball in his room or downstairs (or outside). He loves the Wii and he loves his Froggy books.
Last Saturday night we went to see the Harlem Globetrotters with my mom, grandparents and Timothy (from the Scrappers) and his mom, Mia. We had a BLAST!!!! I don't know if the adults laughed harder than the kids! Monday night we met the Thompsons at Chick-fil-A for dinner. Their boys played on the Scrappers with Ian and we've become great friends with them.
Aunt Sandi is flying down this weekend and we'll be looking forward to her visit!
We're in full swing down here with school, church and sports. I'll try to recap as best I can.
Ian -
He is working real hard in school, at home and on the ball field. He dreads completing his assigned homework 60% of the time, but yet he'll go to town writing letters to NC State student athletes when he is winding down in his bed. The other night he wrote an incredible story about Vermont. I'll have to scan the pages and post at some point. His school started up a Running Club a few months ago and Ian didn't want to join at the time. He recently started talking about it, so we waited for his baseball schedule and on Monday he participated for the first time. The kids walk/run around the track for around 1 hour. He ran around the track 23 times I think!
He likes to annoy his brother just as much as his brother likes to annoy him. He enjoys playing the Wii and going on Study Island for school. He enjoys playing outside whether it's going for a walk with me on his scooter, throwing the ball around or shooting hoops.
He finished his second practice last night as a Riverdog and he did sooooo well! Practice was cut short by about 30 minutes, but they still were able to accomplish a lot. He has practice tonight and then this weekend.
Ian is nearing the end of his PCPW class at church. On May 1 the class will receive bibles from the staff, so that will be an honor for him.
Gavin -
He has improved in his handwriting and always gives me the details about what he did in school in addition to who was missing from his class that day. He is very proud of himself when he eats everything in his lunch, too. It's the little things, right?! We have a lot of pre-school events to attend in May and then he'll graduate. Yes, I'll be a mess.
He started soccer and he wishes he can practice just as many times a week as Ian does! He remembers some of the kids on his team, but he has a new coach and some new teammates. This Saturday morning we'll be at the field bright and early for 8am practice.
He loves to stay home. He loves to play with Cody and hug him and pet him. He always checks on his dog! He enjoys playing basketball in his room or downstairs (or outside). He loves the Wii and he loves his Froggy books.
Last Saturday night we went to see the Harlem Globetrotters with my mom, grandparents and Timothy (from the Scrappers) and his mom, Mia. We had a BLAST!!!! I don't know if the adults laughed harder than the kids! Monday night we met the Thompsons at Chick-fil-A for dinner. Their boys played on the Scrappers with Ian and we've become great friends with them.
Aunt Sandi is flying down this weekend and we'll be looking forward to her visit!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
We're in MARCH!
The sun is out, the trees are blowing, we're sneezing due to allergies and I think we're done with the cold weather in our area.
It's Read Across America Week and Dr. Seuss' birthday week at Ian's school. With that it's Spirit Week as well, so on Monday Ian was able to wear his favorite hat. He chose his West Raleigh hat. On Tuesday he could dress up as his favorite book character. He didn't really do this, but claims he went as a NC State fan. On Wednesday it was crazy hair day, so I pull gel in the little amount of hair he has on his head. Today is wear green day, so I pulled out a green t-shirt from last year.
Ian has been into writing letters to the student athletes at NC State lately. He asked them some great questions and also praised them. I've been impressed. He worked on fractions when he was in bed one night. Wow!
Gavin got to wear his pjs yesterday to school to celebrate Dr. Seuss. The kids looked so cute. He wanted to wear one set of pajamas, but then when it was time to get dressed he told me he wasn't going to participate. UGH! A little bribery worked and off we went to school.
Since Gavin gets out at 12:15 and Wednesdays are my short days at work I decided to take Gavin and his good friend, Connor, to the movies. We saw Gnomeo and Juliet...a very cute movie. I'm looking forward to April because there are a lot of good movies coming out for kids! I actually didn't mind the previews in the theater.
The big news of the week came on Monday night with the baseball draft for West Raleigh. Ian was drafted by the Riverdogs. It's really hard to put the Scrappers behind us since we completely bonded with some awesome families in the fall. But, it's now Riverdog time. As Ian's former coach said...Once a Scrapper...always a Scrapper. My friend, Mia, and I are calling the teams the Scrapdogs to combine both! Ian had such an awesome tryout experience and he has improved so much. He's tall, athletic, lefty, great hitter/fielder, great work ethic, great baseball age...wonderful qualities for a baseball player! We're definitely looking forward to the season. Ian starts this Saturday for practice. I'll be keeping the books during the games and Cailean is able to help coach.
Gavin kicks off his soccer season this Saturday morning. We opted to play soccer over t-ball this season. He'll do West Raleigh in the fall. He is really excited to go back onto that soccer field this weekend. GO AVALANCHE!
It's Read Across America Week and Dr. Seuss' birthday week at Ian's school. With that it's Spirit Week as well, so on Monday Ian was able to wear his favorite hat. He chose his West Raleigh hat. On Tuesday he could dress up as his favorite book character. He didn't really do this, but claims he went as a NC State fan. On Wednesday it was crazy hair day, so I pull gel in the little amount of hair he has on his head. Today is wear green day, so I pulled out a green t-shirt from last year.
Ian has been into writing letters to the student athletes at NC State lately. He asked them some great questions and also praised them. I've been impressed. He worked on fractions when he was in bed one night. Wow!
Gavin got to wear his pjs yesterday to school to celebrate Dr. Seuss. The kids looked so cute. He wanted to wear one set of pajamas, but then when it was time to get dressed he told me he wasn't going to participate. UGH! A little bribery worked and off we went to school.
Since Gavin gets out at 12:15 and Wednesdays are my short days at work I decided to take Gavin and his good friend, Connor, to the movies. We saw Gnomeo and Juliet...a very cute movie. I'm looking forward to April because there are a lot of good movies coming out for kids! I actually didn't mind the previews in the theater.
The big news of the week came on Monday night with the baseball draft for West Raleigh. Ian was drafted by the Riverdogs. It's really hard to put the Scrappers behind us since we completely bonded with some awesome families in the fall. But, it's now Riverdog time. As Ian's former coach said...Once a Scrapper...always a Scrapper. My friend, Mia, and I are calling the teams the Scrapdogs to combine both! Ian had such an awesome tryout experience and he has improved so much. He's tall, athletic, lefty, great hitter/fielder, great work ethic, great baseball age...wonderful qualities for a baseball player! We're definitely looking forward to the season. Ian starts this Saturday for practice. I'll be keeping the books during the games and Cailean is able to help coach.
Gavin kicks off his soccer season this Saturday morning. We opted to play soccer over t-ball this season. He'll do West Raleigh in the fall. He is really excited to go back onto that soccer field this weekend. GO AVALANCHE!
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