Happy Mothers Day

This post goes out to Katies' two moms! Katies mom in Ukraine reads our blog and we are very happy and proud to share pictures so she can stay in touch with Katie.

Katie has started playing in a baseball league on Monday nights. She loves to play ball. Last week she played third base and stopped 3 balls from going through. She was able to hit the ball two times and also took her turn playing really well. She is in a baseball league called Miracle League and all of the kids who play love to come and play ball. Katie is very good at ball. She can catch, through and and hit the balls. Katie is always happy when it is time to go play ball.

Rainy Saturday #2

Katie and I drove over to Blaine on Saturday afternoon; we have signed Katie up for Miracle League Baseball. Katie is such a sports nut. She loves any sport where a ball is involved; and she is pretty good and handling. We play catch and basketball and she is learning. Katie has a lot of energy and we thought that Miracle League ball would be a good fit for her. I will be her coach and we will be playing our season starting next Monday night in Blaine at the Miracle League field.

I bought Katie a glove yesterday too - we are still trying to figure out if she is right or left handed - right now she can throw equally well with either.

rainy Saturdays

Today was a rainy Saturday in Minnesota. It was a good day for mom to run off to do some of her own things and KJ (super-nanny), Andrew, Sam, David, Katie, Emie, Annie and I went down to the Childrens Museum in St. Paul. It was a fun afternoon, visiting 4 rooms - the two traveling exhibits, How It Is Made and Grossology, and two favorites, the Neighborhood and Ant Hill. Face painting was done as well and everyone came home happy and tired. Overall, a good day. Katie especially like the neighborhood. They have a pretend store, music studio, restaurant and they can dress up and pretend to be shopping or cooking. Katie pushed a cart around the whole time; full of groceries. Annie handed out flowers, and David drove the bus from stop to stop.

Where do I start?

Since we have moved into our house; Karen has had the idea that she wanted to move the playhouse that she had as a kid to our house. This playhouse was built in Houston, MN in the late 60's or early 70's (memories fade over time), and was trailed to Albert City, IA - where it sat at one farmstead for probably 30 years and was played with by Karen and her sisters. It has been moved back and forth in Albert City and was used as a stand to sell cider out of at the Albert City Threshermans Show and also was moved finally to an area behind some buildings at the farm; where it has been for the last 10+ years. Anyway; on Friday - it made the 200 mile trek back to MN - where it is now in our back yard. Thanks to Poppa Lind for carrying it; Andrew and Jake for helping skid it across our back yard to its final resting spot. A new foundation, sill, roof, trim, floor and paint and it will be played with again by three little girls named Anne, Emie and Katie!

Boys Fun in Minneapolis

Last week the boys and I went to the Northwest Sports Show. In addition to trout fishing, shooting and looking at travel trailers and 4 wheelers, the big attraction was Jack Dagger; world famous knife thrower, roping expert and whip handler. He actually was quite impressive. We caught one of the shows and Sam was invited to come up on stage and help with his roping.

Juggling

Andrew has taken his talent to a new level. He is now juggling with fire. We made some juggling clubs and use citronella oil and he is becoming quite good. Pepper decided to draw a picture of this today and the picture is really good for a five year olds interpretation. He has the fire, the colored balls and then he decided the next thing that Andrew should start juggling is lamps.

It has been a little while

One of our after Christmas activities has been ballet. Annie started about 2 months ago and then kind of lost her way; so the teachers asked if she had a sister that could come too. Of course, Emie is all over that; so Emie and Annie have been doing ballet together on Wednesday nights. A few fun photos.