Baseball Session 2

 Ground ball catching practice with gloves this time!

 They are really good with helping the kids out.

 Sasha going for the ground ball.  Looks like a pro to me!

 The coach likes to pretend he is a grumpy old man, but he is really good with the kids and they listen to him.

 They started batting practice today.  Well, using just their hand.  Leeza tells the coach she is left handed!  Where did she get that?  I don't know about her sometimes.  She catches right handed, but uses her left when they toss her a ball to see if she is really left handed.  That's my Leeza!  If I say sun, she says moon!

Sasha at the bat.  at least she is using her right hand! 

St Patricks Day parade

 Last year it was short leeve shirts and 80s for St Patricks day parade.  This year is was 32 degrees and windchills.  We met Hailey and Melissa again this year and watched the parade with them.

 Collecting candy at the parade.  We ended up with a whole bag full.

 The girls like the fire trucks.  Not quite as much as the candy.

It was a cold cold day, but they had a good time.  I froze.

Spring Training Tball

 Yes, they do have spring training for tball.  We are doing it because t ball was 2-3 times a week and I have too much going on this summer for that kind of commitment.  Plus this is all catching throwing batting and very little standing in the outfield.  It is inside and is for 4-6 year olds.  They have 22 kids in the class and 7 coaches.  It gives kids lots of one on one attention.

 The first week we worked on throwing and catching ground balls.

 The girls wanted to wear jeans.  They never wear jeans, but now when they need to bend, they want to wear them! 

 I am glad they are learning how to throw a ball from someone who knows how.  I never did learn how to throw one right.

The field is surrounded by a wall so sometimes the pictures are through the plastic safety glass.  Later on they practiced running.  Leeza was bouncing so she got a late start, but still beat everyone.  Then they ran backwards the length of the field, Leeza was second becasue it took her a while to figure out how to do it.  The boy who won had practiced last year.  She is quite the runner.

Dr Seuss Week

 It was Dr Seuss week at school which meant every day they had to wear a special color shirt or hat or something.  To celebrate, Leeza helped me cook green eggs and ham.

The eggs have cheese on them and were pretty good.  Leeza loves to help me in the kitchen and is starting to do some cooking.  She already learned that burners are hot by the time honored way of touching it right after I told her it was hot and do not touch.  Sasha would much rather someone do it for her.  She likes to be waited on.

Basketball Finale

 Our last practice/game of the season.  Warmups.

 That ball looks really big in her little hands

 My beautiful ball player.

 John is their coach and he is really good.  He teaches the fundamentals and having fun.  I've seen a few coaches who are teaching the kids to be super competitive and even yelling at them.  I just want to say- Hey, they are 5 years old and they are here to have fun.

 That basket looks really high when you aren't even 4 ft tall.  They lowered it to 8 feet which is still really high.

 Sasha is pretty good at dribbling and passing. 

 Leeza would rather dance on the court.  at least she is having fun.

 Or maybe the action at the other end of the court is more interesting.  Will anyone notice if I wander off?

 Practice is over and the game starts.  Leeza takes the ball down the court

 Sasha loves to be on the sidelines.

 This is how Leeza does basketball.  Runs to the end of the court as fast as she can.,  Almost always beating everyone.  But she keeps going all the way to the wall.  then she slowly comes back on the court and sort of tries to block.

 Sasha is a pretty casual ball player.  She will walk around the court and sometimes raise her arms.

 Yep, fast action on the court.  Does anyone know where the ball is?

 Their coach giving one last pep talk and handing out the medals.

 They were very proud of their medals.  The medals are really nice and well made.  the ribbon-not so much

And this ends basketball 2013.  Tomorrow starts baseball

Emergency Room Visit

Well, the picture isn't the greatest, but Sasha has 2 stiches in her lip and we all went on our first emergency room visit.  It was 7 and we had just got in the bath.  I was getting the shampoo ready to wash hair when I heard a thump and then Sasha crying.  I turned around and Sasha face and mouth were all blood.  I finally got it rinsed enough to see that she had cut her lip open.  I called her Dr who said it was time to go to the emergency room.  While waiting for the Dr however, we did finish the bath including doing hair!  Hey, I gotta keep the schedule going.

We got dressed and headed off to DMH about 20 minues away.  We had to wait about 30 minutes then it was our turn.  After a visit with the intake nurse who said she had actually put her tooth all the way through her lip and out the front.   Her tooth was a little croooked so momma just pushed it back where it should go.  The nurse said we should really let the dentist do that.  Once we got into the ER cubicle, Leeza had to use the bathroom in there while Sasha asked a million questions.  The DR finally came in and said it needed stiches.  They came back with a board and 2 nurses and they strapped her to the board.  Poor kid.  She started to get upset so I promised her a new life vest for our disney trip if she didn't cry and she was so so brave and did not struggle or shed a single tear.  What a trooper.  I was so proud of her.  I would hate to think if it had been Leeza.  We probably would have ended up in the operating room and knocked her out.

SO how did this happen since I was sitting 6 inches from them at the time.  Sasha told me she was sliding in the bath tub.  I didn't quite get it, but the next day the truth came out.  Leeza had convinced Sahsa to slide down her back.  So while Sasha was climbing onto Leeza's back, she fell forward and hit the tub.  Only in the minds of 2 five year olds could that have been a good idea.

Recital Costumes

 Tonight at dance class, the girls got to try on their recital outfits.  They are in 2 dances-ballet and tap.

 This is their ballet outfit.  I was busy helping Saha get her tap outfit on when they were lined up with that one on.  I didn't get any photos of that outfit.

 Leeza loves her dance class.  She gets so excited she can hardly hold still in line.

They like to march in tap class and make a lot of noise.