Defending The Fatherless: What We've Been Up To

Friday, June 7, 2013

What We've Been Up To

May 14th kicks of Spring birthday season in our house.

Hermela turned 9!!! How did that happen? My little girl is all grown up. Nearly 3 1/2 years home and she has grown into such a beautiful girl inside and out. She's a thoughtful, helpful, loving girl with a heart for others and a giving spirit.

Don't grow up too fast! (I'm always saying that to my kids, but they all keep growing up anyway???)

Sweet Caroline had a super sundae seventh birthday just two weeks after Hermela on May 29th.

Caroline is our feisty funny girl. She's a girl with a plan, always knows what's going on (we call her "the reporter") and likes to lead. She's smart and friendly and loves helping out with her baby brother.

Meron's up next on June 10th.

Aside from birthday bashes, we've kept busy with baseball, softball, ballet and piano.

We've entered the summer baseball season with Colton and Rahel playing all stars and Caleb joining a wood bat league. Last weekend was a marathon with 5 games and this weekend we have at least 6, maybe 8 games depending on how Colton's team does tomorrow. It's a whirlwind, but we all enjoy it.

Eli has gotten good at napping at the field.

We've all gotten good at entertaining ourselves in the down time.

A little color fun at the field. The girls have made friends with all the other sisters on the sidelines.

A new site to see on the sidelines...the first time ever that Nick is not coaching. I told him not to tell anyone that he knows anything about baseball at the wood bat league :-) It's nice to have him on this side of the fence! He is coaching Colton's team, so this won't last long.

Caleb pitched for the second time ever and did awesome! Two strike outs and threw for an out at home all in the same inning. Great for his confidence and so fun to watch.

Real baseball rules here with lead offs and stealing. Caleb holding the runner at 1st.

Little slugger swinging his air bat last weekend. He lives and breaths baseball !

Talk about growing up too fast. My big boy graduated from preschool last week. He's super excited to start Kindergarten and join us full time at home. He can't wait to learn to read.

Then he went and lost not one, but two teeth this week. One yesterday...he didn't even know he lost it. We think he lost it at lunch and swallowed it Then tonight at dinner he lost another one. Just fell out. We are literally losing teeth about every week around here. Someone always has a wiggly one.

Off to the ballet. Spring 2013 recital. The girls were cats in "Sleeping Beauty"

And then my big girls gave us a show on the piano. They just started lessons last September and have made so much progress.

And one of my favorite pictures. My oldest and my youngest playing around at home. I came home and Eli was all sported out Ethiopian style with "Rah Rah." These two are good buddies and have such a sweet relationship.