Crazy Fun

I was talking to a friend that has 3 kids.  Her son plays baseball with Matt and her husband, Coach Dan, helps coach the team.  They are an awesome and beautiful family.  Both parents work, so like us, life is a bit crazy.  We were talking about how we run from place to place but it's always fun.  Crazy fun...that's our life in a nutshell.

Marlie and I went to Kylie's party and the girls had a blast!  Marlie was still pretty shy but she's finally warming up.  I mean really....she spends more time with these girls at school than she does at home with me! 

I also was excited last week to go with Matt on his first "real" field trip.  I say "real" because we got to go on a bus, which the kids were SO excited about...and we went to the Museum of Natural Science!!  Let me warn you parents out there that haven't been on a bus since elementary school that those things don't have shocks!!  It was like a roller coaster ride!  Anyway...since the kids were studying bugs we got to see a Bugs IMAX movie.  At first I was excited at the thought of being in a theater, even if it was with a million kids.  What I didn't realize is that I was lucky enough to see in 3D lots of scenes of bugs eating other bugs.  It was pretty gross.  And the main story was about this cute caterpillar that turns into a beautiful butterfly...only to be eaten at the end!!!  Goodness.  And the class "bully", well that's a bit harsh but you get the idea, at one point in the movie was balling and saying he wanted his Mommy.  Poor thing....luckily I had coached Matt and Evan to take their 3D glasses off when they got scared and well, they had them off most of the time.  But at least no crying.  Then we went into the butterfly exhibit which was so fun.  I love that place.  That was followed by a picnic in the park.  There was a huge hill and the kids had a blast racing their teacher down the hill and playing hide-and-go-seek.  Matt said his favorite part of the day was running down the hill with Ms. Melissa.  She is awesome!!

And of course how could we let a weekend go by without a Tball game?  As you know (if you keep up with this blog and I know you all do!) this year the boys decided they wanted to be the Yankees.  And with the Astros performance this year...can you really blame them?  Well the YMCA issues all the teams standard jerseys and Astros hats.  So one of our dear moms, Cindy, decided that they couldn't be the Yankees and have Astros hats.  On a trip to NY she stopped at the field and got all the kids AND coaches REAL Yankees hats.  Cindy you are awesome!  So the kids took their pictures this week...with their Yankees hats!  Too cute!  Here's the crew....and our 3rd base coach!