Baseball

It's official...we have a baseball player in the house now and from the way Braden is talking, it looks like it may stay that way for quite awhile.  We did the soccer thing last year and Braden tolerated it, but it seems that he has really taken a liking to baseball the past few weeks and I must say he looks pretty stinkin' cute in his little uniform.  Of course Asher wants to play now too, but not only is he too young to play, but I'm afraid that one practice and one to two games a week keeps us busy enough.  Good thing Asher loves to stand on the sideline and cheer on his big brother!  Anyway, I feel like just in the past month we've been thrown into the thick of busy parenting between school starting and after school activities, but I better enjoy it now because I'm sure as the years pass it's just going to get crazier!  Here is my little baseball player with one practice under his belt and ready for his first game...ps...you Kentucky readers will appreciate the fact that Braden calls his team the Blue Wildcats even though I'm pretty sure their team mascot is some other animal -

 Such good buddies and each other's biggest fans...love that!!!

Nothing like playing baseball with your buddies...these guys have been together since they were 6 weeks old -

 After the game, Braden and Asher decided to work on their sliding skills -

 

So dirty, but oh so proud...thank goodness for Oxi-Clean - 

 

Hanging with Austin aka one of the assistant coaches in the dugout after the game - 

 

And they're off...

To school that is, and the house is a bit quieter some days and the rooms a bit neater, and the clutter a little more picked up (for a few hours that is), but I have to say I miss my little friends.  I mean of course the break is nice and I've actually gotten a few things done each day, but I do look forward to seeing their sweet faces and hearing their stories about life on the playground.

So Braden started Junior-Kindergarten at a sweet little private Christian school and he goes three days a week.  It's kind of like real school in that he goes to Spanish and P.E. and Bible class and Art and Music...plus he wears a uniform.  The worst part though is that he has to be there at 8am on the dot or he gets a tardy...that is certainly hard for this momma (who has never been on time for anything in her life).  I'm just still trying to wrap my brain around how we are at this point...where my little boys are grown up and going to school.

 And whatever Braden does, Asher has to do...

Asher definitely misses Braden on the days he's at school, I am always hearing him walk through the house saying, "where's Bray-Bray?"

 My boys

 The Junior -Kindergarten class parade -

 Asher goes to Mother's-Day-Out twice a week at the same school that he and Braden attended last year together.  I get to have Asher with me on Wednesdays while Braden is in school and I sure am thankful for his sweet little companionship on those days.  He's like my little buddy, my shadow that just bums around with me all day long.  I just hate that he too is growing up so very fast!!!

Here he is ready for his first day...gazing out the window, ready to get in the car well before I was - 

 

 He was so excited to see all of his friends from last year -

And our "first day of school" tradition (3 years strong now) is to go and get ice cream to celebrate a new year...