The first Sunday of every month a group of us meet after church to discuss how our church does and should minister to the youth in particular. This month my parents took the kids home from church so we could go to the meeting AND so we could go out to lunch. We recently got a few gift cards (a perk of coaching so much basketball) and so it was fun to use one of those at Red Robin.
Seth was again asked to help coach a Tacoma Baptist School sport and took Monday afternoon off work to make sure he could make it to the very first baseball practice of the season. He finished his morning job early, though, and took the boys and I down to Chambers Bay to enjoy some sunshine before practice.
The walk back to the car, from the beach, took an extra long time because two little boys kept stopping and rolling around in the green grass and sunshine.
Since the boys obeyed so cheerfully when we told them it was time to go, we treated them to ice cream cones on the way to practice. I can't remember the last time we had ice cream cones, but it was worth the mess.
There is this ridiculous Jimmy Fallon (spinoff from SNL) comedy skit where he and another actor sing about their tight pants... somehow Ezra saw it and just thought it was the funniest song. Perhaps since he himself is determined to only wear "tight pants"? But when Seth put on his baseball pants Ezra asked Seth to sing "the tight pants song" and Seth obliged. There's even a video, but I promised Seth I wouldn't put it online.
Otto gave Isaac a small set of Duplos for his first birthday and while we did play with them sometimes, Isaac just rediscovered them this week and is obsessed with them!! He sits so happily for about a half hour at a time, building "my house" and then is so proud of himself when he shows us what he's built. I always keep the boys' toys categorized by type in small plastic containers (with lids) on a shelf in their room so that we can pull down one box at a time to play with and (theoretically, at least) keep the mess contained. It also helps keep the toys fresh and exciting, since they're not always accessible. Anyway, the Duplos have their own box and as soon as Isaac is done playing with them I clean them up and hide them so that they're still really exciting when I pull them out again. It's only been a few days but I very much look forward to the half hour when Isaac can play Duplos by himself. I know he's still young, but it is often a struggle to keep Isaac occupied on his own and we are very much working on that.
They played together pretty well and it was fun to read through the books Aurora brought and to build a big fort (since we moved our couch, at least for now). And I even got to braid some hair!
On Thursday we went to Cirque Park with Seth to play (and watch) while he coached baseball. The fields at Cirque are quite nice, so it's fun that Cirque is TBS' home field (since they don't have a field of their own at the school). I don't know when games start, as he hasn't received a schedule yet, but they have practice Monday-Friday, 3-6pm. He has already missed some practices and will likely miss many more, when work interferes, but he's going to try to go to as many as he can. Cirque Park has a big volleyball court, with sand, that the boys think is their personal sandbox, and a very small play structure with a slide. As far as play structures go it's one of the most minimal in the area, but we will still have fun there. The boys will also really just enjoy running around in the sunshine. It will be much easier and therefore more enjoyable to take them to baseball games (than it was to take them to basketball games).
We're pretty excited for the sunny weather, around here!
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