Another round of baseball

Shaun has started the second round of baseball clinic at Cypress college. I think that if we keep practicing he will do well enough to play next year in the league.

He really has a good grasp on throwing-as long as the person on the receiving end has a mitt to protect his hand. He and his dad have practiced throwing "bullets" and my hand can attest to the fact that he's getting better all the time.

Way to field the grounder.

Hitting is still his favorite part though.
Yesterday the couch started a game-kids against parents. The parents lost miserably. I hit first and got to 2nd. A dad got out at first. Another base hit and I went to 3rd and then when the next dad hit I ran home-no kid was going to catch that fly-the coach did though and so I was out as I ran back. Other parents forgot to run, and completely missed hitting the ball off the tee, so all in all not too bad except that the kids had scored 5 runs and beat our measly 2 runs-Shaun got to 2nd and I tickled him so he couldn't run, but he got home anyway.

Silly cat hats are for boys

We still have the cats that my mom has been fostering. They are several months old now and get into everything. Their favorite interests include unrolling the whole roll of toilet paper, playing with shoes, and climbing inside Shaun's hat-yes, they actually do this to themselves. And your not allowed to walk past them without petting them or they will reach out and grab your arm with their "hands".

4th of July

We went to the ward 4th of July pancake breakfast. The cub scouts and boy scouts performed the flag raising. It was a fun morning. Like usual we went over to the Cardons' house to watch the fireworks from the Military base in Los Alamitos. Their backyard backs up against the base and everyone brings something, we have dinner and play until the fireworks start. We can also go over and look at the planes and tanks. They do fly overs too! David came along for the fun.

New gymnastics

A few weeks ago we transfered Shaun to a new gymnastics class. Lakewood city has a great class for a third of the price of the one in Los Alamitos. The teachers are much more attentive and the class is divided up by age groups. He has gotten to do so much more practice on the uneven bars and for the first time on the vault. His favorite part is the beam-doing V sits, sitting on the beam with your legs pulled up toward your chest to form a V. His next favorite is the vault-doing squat overs, jumping over with your hands on the vault and your legs go through your arms.

Toothless grin

As far as tooth loss, Shaun has been slightly behind the curve but he is quickly catching up.
He lost his first and second tooth in 1st grade and now teeth three, four, and five have fallen out. The second tooth to the left on the bottom came out as a result of his friend, David, kicking him in the mouth at Gymnastics. The two top front teeth came out the natural way but sure took their time. They held on till the bitter end.

This tooth could be turned around and around and hung by just a thread for several days.

Poor Shaun, he's missing so many teeth all he can eat is yogurt and Ramen, just kidding.
I hope his permanent teeth grow in better than mine did or I'm going to have a doosy of a Orthodontic bill. Besides, it would be a shame to mess up such a cute smile.

Goofy Boy

Sometimes maybe you get a thought and you begin to wonder about something. You see the cat tree and you begin to consider that maybe you will fit in it or maybe just your head will fit in it, or maybe not!
I was walking past the cat tree and noticed there was a young boy stuck in behind it.
I couldn't resist stopping to take a few pictures of him before I got him loose.


Not a happy Camper.
Say Cheese!

Slip 'n' slidding

It was a hot afternoon so I headed to Walmart to pick up some summer fun. Dual sided Spiderman slip n slide-it doesn't get any better than that.