TBall

Dylan is CRAZY about baseball. So much so that for the whole year that he was 3 he was insistent that he would play baseball next year. So when 4 rolled around I started looking into T-Ball for him. Well only to find that our township starts at 5 years of age. DILEMMA! So I searched around and found that the youth center started at age 4. He's the youngest and smallest on his team, but he's the most determined. He loves hitting, fielding and the roar of the crowd.




The cheering crowd :)





home run swing!

Tractor

This was the one present that Dylan was waiting & hoping for! Thanks Miss Ellie & Uncle Cal!!!

Extending I Love You's

we had an "awww" moment today on the way to a picnic...

the kids started a round of "I love you mom!" "I love you dad" in the car and we repeated "I love you Marissa!", "I love you Dylan"

we sat there smiling of how simple and sweet it all was....

that was until we passed the horse farm and Dylan continued with "I love you horsey! I love you piggy! I love you pony!"...

well it was perfect while it lasted!

Identification

Some people would think we were rich or business owners if they listened to Dylan's descricptive identification of places we go. Today after T-Ball I told him we were going to Walmart and he wanted to know if we were going to PeePa's Walmart on Route 8 or Mommy's Walmart (Super Center). I told him that we were going to the one on Route 8, to which he followed "then we can go to Peepa's McDonald's when we are done because Daddy's McDonald's is too far!"

Six Year Old Logic

Last night Dylan & Marissa sat down to play Connect Four and Marissa decided to choose the colors:

M: "you be black and I'll be red"
D: "why Sissy?"
M: because you should like black
D: "why?" (yes he still does that annoying WHY? WHY? WHY?)
M: well because Daddy's favorite color is black.
D: so?
M: well his favorite color is black, he likes baseball, you like baseball, you love daddy, so you should like black.
D: um, ok!

Scooter

Marissa "bought" Dylan a scooter for his birthday and we added on a new helmet and pads. This was his first shot at riding:

4??? Where did the time go!

Dylan turned 4 on September 2nd. I can hardly believe he's 4 years old.

We had a Pirate themed birthday party for him on Saturday the 6th. It was a bit cloudy out but we still managed some outdoor activity for the day.

I made his cake:



We had a treasure hunt in the sand box. Larry filled it with sand and we added "gold" coins, rings, gems and a few pirates. All the kids were digging fools:




And Dylan was even inside the sandbox digging for his treasure:

Some guests:

Mommy hitting the sauce:
The Pinata:



Opening Presents

A link to more pictures:
http://s87.photobucket.com/albums/k160/dcmyers/Dylans%20BD%202008/?start=0

Dylans First Day of School

This September Dylan started preschool at Deer Lakes Nursery School. He was so excited because this was the preschool where Sissy went.

Here he is doing puzzles.

A few of the boys in his class were in our Monday play group. We met because their siblings all went to preschool together and kindergarten and now Bryce, Michael & Dylan will be going to preschool and kindergarten together too.

Here's Dylan & Bryce listening very intently at story time.
Michael is on the far left with the white blonde hair:
I wish he would listen that well to me!


We have determined that mommy can't visit him at school. I met him at school for orientation and he was doing fine playing with toys and others, however, once he saw me he became clingy and uncooperative...until the promise of a treat after story time was told.

Marissa the 1st Grader!

Wow I can't believe she's in first grade already!

Misc Summer Pics

Iced Tea Here! Get Your Iced Cold Iced Tea Here!

One day over the summer Dylan wanted to have a lemonade stand. Having no lemons or mix available, I whipped up a batch of sweetened iced tea for them to sell. It was D & M and the neighbor Seva. They didn't too bad. They earned about 80 cents each, for a total of $2.40 of which I staked them 90 cents and both Larry and I bought a cup each.

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BATMAN!

Dylan got Batman PJ's when Aunt Ester visited from California.

Down On The Farm

A local orchards/farm has Corn Roasts on Sundays in August & September. It's the most delicious corn I've ever tasted. I took the kids one Sunday in August where they went to the petting/feeding zoo, played in the houses and structures, had hotdogs and delicious roasted corn. As you can see, Dylan wasn't so sure about feeding the goats!