My little (big) softball player

Lauren has completed her first year as a softball player. On her third game, she recd the award of MVP. Both Mike and I really, really enjoyed watching her and her team play this year. The team ended up in first place and went onto the championship tournament this past weekend. They won their first game, lost their second, won their third, forth and fifth game and lost their sixth game on Sunday afternoon. I don't know what place they ended up but I'm sure we will find out soon enough. We have another tournament this weekend that the team is in - it's softball tourney but using a bouncy-type ball. Yeah....we will see how that one goes.

I can honestly say that I'm all softball'd out. We took the boys to a couple of the games and their schedule was shot - so today I'm working hard to getting them back on their eating and napping schedule.





here she is in action. You go girl!!

Last day of Mothers Day Out

Wednesday was the boy's last day of Mothers Day Out. It has been a lifesaver for me and I'm going to miss it during the summer.

Ms. Cindy was their teacher and she is a special lady. She made them all visors with their name on it, special scrapbooks for each of the boys, pails with their names on it with shovels, and gave them all books for the summer.

We will miss Ms. Cindy, but we will see her again in the Fall, although we will move up to the toddler room, but we can always stop in and say Hi.



**Ms. Cindy made these shirts herself!!

Pics from our last photo session

I realized that I haven't posted some of our pictures from the great Jackie Reitz (http://www.jacquelinereitzphotography.com/#).
Although the boys didn't look like they were having a good time, Jackie was able to capture some great shots.

Lauren


Logan

Travis

Ian


One just for fun


Yesterday Lauren had two softball games to play. She is doing so well in her first year playing softball. At the third game of the season she recd the award of "MVP".
I think softball is "her" sport. She has played shortstop, 2nd base, and third base. She threw two girls out from 3rd base - this girl has an arm on her. She also fielded the ball and forced outs at 3rd base. I NEED to get pictures of her playing - it's hard when I'm tending to the boys but I will before the season is out.
In addition to two softball games, we managed to make it to my friend's, Karola, house for a celebration bbq. Can you guess what I'm doing today??

The boys are close to 11 months old now and I'm almost done planning their 1st birthday party and a special surprise for everyone (blog followers included). It's been a great year, sometimes a little rough, but I wouldn't have changed it for the world. We are so blessed!

For now,

Mother's Day

Of course this post is late, did you expect anything different??

I had the most wonderful Mother's Day. I was able to sleep in until 8:45 a.m.!!!! Although I was up with all three of the boys in the night, sleeping in was exactly what I needed.
I woke up with a young lady snuggling up to me and in the background the noise of three little boys playing in the living room.

I was presented with three lovely cards. One of them being homemade from Ms. L, with some "coupons" that I can use over and over. Watch out little one, I will take advantage of that. I have one for a car wash, manicure and pedicure, a free day, and breakfast in bed.

After waking up and trying to figure out what the heck was going on at 9:00 a.m., I made a dessert for Mother's Day brunch/lunch at my mother in laws house. Banana pudding was the winning recipe for the day. We then went to my MIL's house where Aunt Jess was along with Nana. After we were there for a few minutes, Ms. Ava and her parents strolled in. She came in with a cute skirt/shirt outfit AND a purse and she was carrying it the right way; with her arm bent in front of her. She is quite the young lady.

We all tore up some ham, corn casserole, veggies and of course the banana pudding. The boys were included in that prior statement. They ate and ate and ate some more. It is so cute to watch them eat.

Hope everyone had a great Mother's Day.

Just for fun

It's hard to blog regarding things that we do - we don't do much so if I blogged on doing nothing - you'd be bored!! So I'll just share some recent pictures of the kids for ya.

Perhaps a dentist when he grows up???






Told ya someone is always naked here.


Notice ALL three are standing up next to the tote.

One of the few pictures with me in it.


Here's a video of Travis and Ian batting around a ball. It's hilarious when all three get involved but there is only two in this video - not sure how Logan slept thru this. It's hours of fun (ok about 10 minutes in reality). I didn't have time to edit it, but it's only about 3 minutes. Grab yourself a tasty beverage and enjoy.



We have all three boys crawling all over the place now. I think we will have a walker here very soon as Travis is traveling around the coffee table. Gates are in place, finally. We are fast approaching their first birthday and I'm trying to plan that in my free time which is about 10 minutes a day. Looks like we will have a good amount of the Johnson crew down here at that time...watch out folks it may be too much of a good time.

Lauren's soccer and softball practices and games have been canceled for the next week due to the scare of the swine flu. The school has also canceled all extra curricular activities as well thru the 11th of May. I think the media is making way too much of this especially since thousands of people die each year from the regular flu. Not saying that we aren't taking precautions, but we aren't going overboard either.

We finally got three bath seats so we can bathe the boys together. It's still a two person job (a third person makes it even easier) but at least the boys can play together. The bath seats were extremely hard to find. Oh I could find them on ebay but I refused to pay $15 plus shipping (Be quiet Bob ;-). I found one on my mommy forum and then another one on a site similar to craigslist and I didn't pay an arm and a leg. I used to have one for Lauren and I must have given it a way - unlike all the other stuff of hers that I STILL have. I did sell the swing that I had when Lauren was born and she was sad about it..she pouted for an hour. That girl will not give up anything.

Ok, well I could go on and on about basically nothing that is going on here. So I'm going to hit publish so you all can enjoy the recent pictures.

SLEEP

Can you guess what I'm about to post?? I believe that it's happened once A LONG TIME AGO. But last night the boys slept all night long. I kept them up an extra hour playing extra hard and apparently it worked. They went to sleep at 7 p.m. and didn't wake up until a little after 6 a.m.

Mike was a on a business trip this week so it was all me. Ian is now at a point where he wakes up and wants to be held while he sleeps. If you put him down he screams. Which usually isn't a problem but w/o help here I really don't want to handle three babies up in the night, one being hysterical. So for a couple nights I slept from 2-6 a.m. either on the couch or in Mike's recliner with Ian just to get some shut eye.

Mike comes home last night and said that he would get up with the boys and I could sleep all night long. Go figure that the boys would sleep all night. Definitely no payback there.

We had pictures done last Sunday and the photographer has just a sneak peek of them on her blog. You can see them at http://www.jacquelinereitzphotography.com/blog/

I'd post a pic but I'm having trouble with my USB ports on my computer (it's always something isn't it). Hopefully the pics that are Jackie's website will suffice for right now.

Happy Easter

Well the Easter Bunny made it to the Scott house.

Someone is always naked around here...


Getting out of the house isn't all that easy anymore. Ian is out of his infant car seat now; so we have two in their carriers and Ian being carried into anyplace we go now. I really don't think he minds being carried ;-)

All three boys are now crawling. Ian is still a bit slow but at least he is able to get where he wants to go; which I'm so glad because he would get frustrated and just whine. I now know what the most annoying sound in the world is!!!

We are totally off of baby food - I feel like I'm always in the kitchen making snacks or meals though. I feel like my Aunt Betty at times. When we would visit, her and mom would always be in the kitchen. It all began with breakfast then clean up and then they would sit down and chat for about an hour and back up they would go to start making lunch.

Travis and Logan apparently are tired of crawling and now are pulling up to everything. Just as I get one stage under control they change it up.


We all went to the Hilton for brunch on Sunday. It went better than I anticipated. We had enough adults for the 4 babies (3 mine - 1 Tiffany's) that were there. I even got to eat!!!

Lauren with her cousin Ava


My Easter cutie (ok just one of four of my cuties)


The Poor Easter Bunny had no idea what he got himself into


Boys will be boys....