Addi Jo

For some reason it has really hit me lately that Addi is no longer little. It may of started during football season when there really was no rational to explain to her that she is not like the other big girls anymore.


It certainly sank in when she started to steal her own mashed potatoes and eat them with chopsticks in the kitchen. I mean there is no need to tell her that is just not a good plan because she does not want to hear one word of it.

Then there is the cute face of a little girl that made her own Christmas list. One that compares to 16 year old girls in some ways and one that made of items only a 3 year old would want. I mean the i-pod was a bit over the top but who would not want to get her a sleeping bag and pillow pet. Then there was the baby puppy and zhu zhu pets.

It is just amazing Addi Jo is so big now. She loves preschool everyday and is learning so much. She loves to say the prayer at the dinner table and give her brother a hard time. She is starting to play games and is super competitive, which means she fits in well here. She is her brother's biggest fan and worst nightmare all in the same evening.

The tangled experience

Saturday night we took the kids to see the new Disney movie Tangled. I have to get this down because one day I will be sad that she can go off and see movies without us. Addi had actually been looking forward to it for a few weeks since she found a t shirt with Rapunzel on it and then immediately after saw the movie preview. It is really her first movie attachment experience.

We got our tickets, which was a bit shocking for Jeremy. Usually Grandma Ann takes the kids to the movies so we had a bit of sticker shock at the price to get into a movie. I can clearly understand how Netflex has become successful because we headed over to the concession stand after picking up our 3-D glasses. I was prepared for this because these prices have always been out of whack but Jeremy just about lost it. I digress.

The movie was great, really, it was. I thought Addi dozed off a couple of times until I realized that she was awake and just not blinking she was watching so intently.

Then we get to the end of the movie. If you need to be kept in suspense until you can see the movie yourself you should stop reading now......Rapunzel's boy friend came to rescue her out of the tower and the evil "witch" who stole her stabbed Eugene in the side. Addi lost it. She started balling. I mean like Jack just sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic on Titanic, like Goose just died in the plane crash, like when Hillary dies in Beaches. I had to hold in my laughter because really are you seriously breaking down. She had tears down her face and I had to consider putting my hand over her mouth she was crying so loudly. It was crazy and sad at the same time. Once I got her to focus back on the screen and what was going on the witch was pushed out of the window and died so she was good to go but those were a rough four minutes.

In the end she loved the movie and can recall clearly when the witch was mean and how Rapunzel was so happy in the end.

Holiday Cards

I have to pass this along. I know usually I share info about what is going on but this is a great deal, and easy. Shutterfly is giving away 50 free cards if you blog about this. Hey, finsih reading this blog post before you go off and post one of your own on this deal!
I have wanted to do my own photo cards for a couple years with the kids but the ones in the studio always seem so fake by the time I get them home. There are some pretty awesome themes at Shutterfly so look in your mailbox in a couple weeks to see which one we picked........

Week 8

You know the old saying that everything good must end. I can tell you it stinks having to try and explain that to an 8 year old. Today we played the team that until last week was ranked first in the division all year. They saw their first defeat lat week. This wekk they handed us our first defeat of the season.

Lucas handled it much better this year then last but it hurt. It hurt to see the boys out there not getting the plays pulled off as we should of. It hurt knowing we could of won, it just was not our day. I would love a rematch, I would take it any day of the week but it is not going to happen until next year.

The stats will all have to be calculated and figured to see where the ranking will end up. We are not a shoe in for 1st any longer but it is going to be close. I will let you know.

Well off to pack up the catcher's gear for baseball practice tomorrow.

Week 7

This was a big week of football. Our quarterback Blake suffered a bone bruise to his arm at practice on Thursday. Everyone was thankful it was not broken and Blake wanted to make sure he played Sunday. PaPa and grandma Trish were in town for the game and Luke was excited.

Things were going well through the first half. Then this play happened.

Cronk went down crying, his arm was killing him. He was sacked hard. I tried to be helpful and thrown the bag of ice from Aunt Carrie's cooler out to the coach but it slid out of my hand and I looked like the biggest fool ever, seriously it was like I had never thrown a ball in my life. I have to put this in here because I want to see how many years that story lives on.

Luke played on defense this week and did very well. He got a big push back from a kid only once. He felt really good about his game.

With this win 37-0 the Tigers are in first place all by themselves. The only undefeted game in the league now. Next week is the final game of the season, don't miss it!

Pumpkin Patch 2010

After the football game and before baseball practice we headed over to the pumpkin patch for our annual trip to find the best pumpkins. The kids love all the activities they have including the pumpkin launcher. I have to admit it is pretty darn awesome to see a pumpkin shoot out of the gun fly across the sky and land in the pond.
Our official wheelbarrow pusher himself. Every year one of the kids knock of the wheelbarrow in an attempt to help dad out. This year I was no exception except for the fact that it was not our kid or kids that did it. This little boy about four ran smack into the thing and raised up on the arm and well there it went. I had to laugh out loud because it happened on our way back to the tractor to take us up to leave. I don't know why but Jeremy did not laugh when it happened.


Everyone loved to play on the slides and mazes and toys around the farm.

Look at these cute faces

Now all we have to do is carve the pumpkins!

Football 10-17-10

Sunday football. What a beautiful day. We have had some wonderful football weather this year. I don't have very many pictures from the game because of this crazy thing on the field.


RRRR....it really was right in the way of every good play of the game.



Luke did not have his best game. He said his ankle hurt and was running weird on it, even weirded then he usually runs if you can image that. He had some good tackles but nothing fantastic.


Here is our little cheerleader. GO TIGERS!

I hope next week will be better for pictures! Final score 34-6. Another good win but I can't beleive they scored on us!

Flocking

A few weeks ago Addi's preschool started a fund raiser. It is the coolest idea ever. I read about it a few years ago and always wondered how one could pull it off and I think a preschool is a great idea. You flock for money someone's yard. They are left with wonderfully decorated flamingo's for a night. Then you can pay to have them removed and placed somewhere else.
Addi really liked the idea of the flamingos so I decided to pay to have one of the families she goes to school with yard done as well as the neighbors so the kids could see the fun. Everyone loved it. They were so cute.



I think it was funny to see all the adults in their yards at 10pm on a Sunday also reading the sheets and wondering what had happended to them. Especially Bret who just loves his yard. I made note of it on the sheet so they spread them out everywhere.

This morning we woke up to our own flocking. The family Addi goes to school with flocked us back. The kids were so excited this morning. I felt bad they were rained on but they still looked great.

If you live in Raymore, you never know when the flocking may hit you!

Week 5 football

Saturday night lights!! Everyone was so excited to play under the lights. It was the first time in a couple of years.

Luke had an amazing game!! He did great blocking work. Started on defense and played most of the first half. He has that running issue down.

Then he got the only funble recovery of the game!! It was so awesome. I was shooting pictures and the play was over before Irealized it was even Luke. He loves to tell the story of how the other kid was hitting and yelling for him to let go of the ball but he held it tight. The other guy even used his shoulder pad into his arm but he did not let go.

I think Addi would like for there to be something to cheer for

If you have not made it to a game you so should get out there. The only down side is we are done playing in Ray-Pec and have to go to Blue Valley for the rest of the games but Iam sure they will all be good memories!

1st Pedicure

I had a conference last week and was on my feet for what seemed like an eternity. The bottoms of my feet hurt so bad it was not funny. There is only one thing to do in a time like this, get a pedicure. I decided it would be fun to take Addi. I really am not sure there is a more girly girl than here out there so I was hoping she would enjoy it. I was afraid she would freak out or not be patient for them to do it. She LOVED every single part of it. She about had a heart attack when she had to pick out her polish. There was so many to choose from. Then they wash her feet, of she loved that. They put a litle flower on each big toe for her so she was smiling from ear to ear.

Here is what she looked like the entire time

She told EVERYONE in there that she took dance. I told her we would come back closer to her recitle and do it again. This could get very expensive in my future!

Baseball 2010

Today marked the first day of baesball. Yes, you read that right. Baseball started today. It ofically started 30 minutes after the football game ended.
I can say for certian that if baseball was not his first love there is no way we would even be thinking about it right now. The fact is Luke loves baseball. Regardless of the time of year he has baseball on the brain. This year he is going to play with many of the kids from his team last year, which was a great team and most importanly the same coach. Coach Cronk is the pitching coach for Rockhurst University. He is so amazing when it comes to his ability to teach these kids and I do love his organization!!

Lucas was so excited about getting to baseball this afternoon and did wonderful. For the next month they are only going to focus on pitching. This will be his first year with kid pitch ball and there are a ton of rules about how many pitches each player can play in a game, how many innings and then the simple fact you want to make sure you have some good kids pitching in the first place or you are going to have one painful game on your hands.

Starting in November we will move to an indoor facility in Lee's Summit so that should make for some intersting evenings but when summer comes we are all so happy to have games to go to it will be worth it.

They will travel for competitive and tournament play so if we are in your neck of the woods we will give you a shout!!

Fun time

I'm a robot
I'm a robot
I'm a robot



A mighty cute one at that.

This is how Addi spent her morning, playing with Luke's Omegatron face mask with voice changer. It use to scare her but now she loves it. I just have to keep her from going down the stairs with it on.

Football 10-3-10

Today's game marked mid season for us. We knew it would be a tough game. We were playing the top ranked team in our division. No one in the prior three weeks had scored against them. We played our biggest interleague rivals the first week and the score was 24-12 so we were in second as we have not lost but we were playing a team so good that no one had even scored against them. Lucas lost his starting defense position before the game when he was caught walking out to warm up instead of run and then the coach was even more mad that he pulled Luke because he was freaked out about getting scored on early. Apparently after the game there was a promise made about never walking again and Luke going back to starting defense. I guess all is right in the universe again regarding that little fact.

So the game, play two of the game we ran the ball in for a touch down. Very nice start. All was great until the second quarter which was the looongest quarter of football I have ever seen. There was a flag thrown and aparently some serious issues with the refs because the game was stopped for no less than 15 minutes to figure out what to do.

It was tied 14-14 at half time. The second half went well, our defense did its job and our ofense looked polised.

In the end we wond 24-14.

Yep, he got that tackle

Here are the cutiest little people ever. They love to play with each other no matter where or how rough.

Here is Addi trying to get in on the cheering. She is trying to find the other girls and see what they are doing.