Future Astronomer at work

Here are a few pic of Nick playing around with his telescope. His dream at this juncture is to be an astronomer. I told him just no trips to the moon. I would be scared to death. If I could put the kids in a bubble to protectthem I would, wish I was not such a nervous nelly but I am what I am.
I think I have updated the blog with all the recent pics I have.

MLB Here we come

Nick had his first scrimmage last night and he did great! He got a solid hit on the 1st pitch and did great in the outfield. We have met some really nice people through little league so even though it takes up so much time and we spend more evenings at the ballfield than we do at home I am glad we signed the kids up. I sat with a mom the entire scrimmage last night and we totally hit it off and chatted ut up the whole time. I guess Florida is really starting to feel like home. It only took 3 years but I am finally coming around.

Barbie Jeep

Maddie's big gift for her birthday was a battery operated pink and purple Barbie Jeep. She loves it!! Here are some pictures of her and her brother taking if for a spin. He was not thrilled about being seen in a pink car but he let me take the pix anyway. What a good sport! He has this thingwith bunny ears. He tries to give them to everyone he poses with... Boys will be boys! :)

I thought it would be a good idea to do seperate posts for each set of pics.

Green thumb

These pix are just me bragging about my flowers on the porch. I have not even the slightest of green thumbs but I am doing pretty good with this. The prple flowers are an orchid that I planted and it just took off. It has tons of blooms and is even growing another one that has not bloomed yet. Very pleased. It gives so much color to the front porch.

Happy Birthday

Here are some bday pix from today and Saturday. I am hoping my brother in law will send me the ones he took soon. He always gets better ones than I do.
I will take more tonight and post.

Going back to work?

I have some pix from Maddie's birthday that I will try and load up later today. Just thought I would do a quick post. I think I am going back to work in the fall. Last week I was offered a position by the director at Maddie's pre-school. I could either go full or part time but I think I will opt for part time. I will still have to get Nick back and forth to school, Maddie has dance class once a week etc etc. I am very much looking forward to working again. I love the kids and am glad that I stayed home for a few years but I am ready to get back out there and have a purpose other than cleaning (those of you who know me know that I hate cleaning!!!) it is thankless and exhausting (when you have a 4 year old tornado following behind you) and dont even get me started on the laundry issues we have. So working with grown ups (and still the kids) will be a breath of fresh air.
Today is Maddie's birthday and we have a party at her school so I better get ready. I ordered Care Bear cupcakes! I promise pix sometime this week. We have a very busy week. This is the only night we wont be at the ball field. Saturday is opening day so there are pizza parties, extra practices, carnivals, scrimmages etc....

Baseball

We had team and individual pix on Saturday. I took some of the kids before we left....
I love Nick's uniform!