T Ball!

Gabe joined the Lynnfield Little League's T Ball program this year, and he seems to love it.  He has a very nice coach and a cute team.  We've enjoyed watching him learn the game and play with other kids from town.

his teams is the River Dogs

our little #10

some advice from his coach

Gabe's friend, Joseph, is on his team!

lining up to shake hands after a game

all of the kids are fighting for the ball

Zach and Joseph's brother, Jonathan, have a great time playing while the big boys play T Ball

holding hands!

check out this T Baller from another team!  How adorable is she?

his Baseball Trading Cards photo shoot

team photos

Roger Williams Zoo

Auntie Auntie and I took the boys to the Roger Williams Zoo a few weeks ago.  The drive was a bit excessive for the payoff of the zoo (particularly because it poured rain half an hour after we arrived). So for now, we're going to stick with Franklin Park.

I'm glad that we took the boys, though; the elephants and giraffes were pretty impressive.  Oddly enough, their favorite animal was a strange bird (pictured below) whom they named, "crazy hair."  They talked about crazy hair for days after seeing him at the zoo.  When Gabe saw his picture, he gushed, "I really miss crazy hair.  I want to go back and see him."

crazy hair

zebras!

Auntie bought the boys ginormous bags of popcorn

close-up of crazy hair

hiding from the rain under some bushes

Time To Catch Up!

It's been way too long since I've updated this blog, and we've done so much!  Here are a ton of pictures of what we've been up to for the past few weeks:

We went to Crane's Beach on a hot afternoon in early May

We celebrated Mother's Day and Zach hid a present that he made at school behind the living room curtain (to save for Mother's Day)!

it's peaking out here behind the curtain

the boys mowed the lawn with Jason 

we're not sure what Gabe was doing in this photo (blown up from the picture above)

Gabe made this heart for me at school

and here's Zach's gift that he made

loved those gifts!!

and then Zach made me these Mr. Potato Heads for Mother's Day; my favorite was the little guy!

and Gabe made me a Lego creation

proud of his creation!

we transformed an old sandbox into a raised bed herb garden in the backyard!

Cuteness

Here are some cute things that the boys have said recently:

Gabe to Zach:

"I like the name, ZZ Top; it suits you."

(ZZ Top is one of the nicknames that Jay and I have for Zach)

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Zach to his swim instructor:

"Did you gas?"

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Gabe to me in an exasperated tone:

"He's being a love-pet again."

When Zach was spontaneously hugging and hugging Gabe.

Family Relations

Zach's at that stage where he's not quite sure how all of his relatives fit together.  Yesterday we had the following conversation:


Zach:  When you were little and I was your Daddy, was I bigger than you?

Me:  Hmmm, who's Mommy's Daddy?

Zach:  Jason.

Me:  Jason's your Daddy.  Who's Mommy's Daddy?

Zach:  I don't know. 

Me:  Papa is Mommy's Daddy.

Zach:  Oh.  Am I going to be big one day?


And based on his follow up question, it seems as if he was more interested in knowing that he'll be big one day than in who is who.  Ooops.

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

We had lunch with some friends at a local Mexican restaurant yesterday to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.  The boys were very well-behaved, and we had a fun lunch.  The restaurant handed out Mexican sombreros, necklaces, etc., so we had a photo shoot later in the day.

they were holding hands!

Some Recent Cuteness

Both boys have said some really cute things lately.  Here they are:

The other day, Zach came home from school with the following art project that he'd made from fruit loops:

When Gabe saw the project, he said, "Zach's that's really beautiful.  Did you do it all by yourself, or did you have help?  I can't take my eyes off of it; it's just so beautiful, Zach."

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We were playing outside today, and Gabe saw some of the new grass growing (we planted grass seed in the backyard).  He whispered with a big smile, "welcome to the world, baby grass."

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Zach's pretty attached to an acorn that we found in the backyard and likes to play with it and bring it places with him (today I found it wedged between the couch cushions [along with a $5 bill!] - evidently he'd hidden it a while back and forgotten about it).  Having joyfully reunited with the acorn, a couple of hours later he asked us to play, "Hide The Acorn".  We haven't played the game before so we weren't quite sure what it was; only that Zach said that he was going to hide the acorn and then we were going to look for it.  So, Zach proceeds to audibly hide the acorn around the corner on one of the columns in the living room.  After asking us to find it, he and Jason go running, and Zach grabs the acorn and yells, "I found it first!"  And then he says that he's going to hide it again and be the first to find it.  Gah!