Flat Stanley

Flat Stanley is a book written by Jeff Brown. In this funny story a boy named Stanley Lambchop is flattened by a bulletin board. He doesn't get hurt but the doctor measures him at four feet tall, a foot wide and a half an inch thick! Stanley has many adventures. He gets mailed to California, flies like a kite and even pretends to be a painting to catch sneak thieves. In the end his brother inflates him back to normal with a bicycle pump.

Our own Flat Stanley came to visit us in Tucson. Our cousin Grant from Missouri is reading Flat Stanley for a class project. He mailed him to us and we had the opportunity to take him on one of our park play dates. He came at a perfect time. The weather has been gorgeous and we were outside a lot. We sent him home with a sunburn and a few band-aids (cactus can be rough on a body made out of paper). We had fun Stanley! Hope you can come back and visit soon.

Gymnastics

Coleman and I just finished up our first session of gymnastics and we are hooked! I think I have found my calling--a place where my true inner monkey can come out. Mom and I get to do gymnastics together first and when my class is over Coleman gets to do it by himself. Can you believe he is big enough to do that? I can't WAIT until I am big enough to do that. F-U-N.

The beam--my best event

Getting ready for the dismount

Bars--my true love

Ta-da and the judges score a perfect 10!

Front roll

Donkey kick

Spiderman hand stand (sorry for the blurry pic but mom thought it was still so cute!)

Beam--not waiting for the teacher to assist like he is supposed to. He usually goes solo on this one because he doesn't need any help. Hmmm...

First Practice

I started t-ball practice at the beginning of March--wow and now it is almost April! We have had a few practices and my first game is this Saturday. I can't wait! I love hitting and running to the bases (with or without my bat in tow :) ) and grounding balls. I think I love wearing my batting gloves the most though! Here are a few pictures from my first practice. We will post pictures of the big game as soon as we can!

Place bats against fence--must be instincts.

Huddling up

Pondering the strategy

Ready to go!

First field drills

Getting instructions

Step

Hit

Take bat--don't want to lose it.

Sunday

Doesn't this Sunday look a little different from last week? We decided to take advantage of the last few hours of the beautiful weekend and head to the park. Coleman starts t-ball on Tuesday so I became the assistant and grounded balls. Hard work I tell you! Don't worry we did get a little play time in. :)

SNOW!

Look what we woke up to on Sunday!! Can you believe it? It was like Christmas morning all over again. We explored, had a snowball fight and made a teeny snowman. It was all melted by 10 and we were back in our flip flops by afternoon. My kind of snow day.

snow day Arizona style

So excited to go out and play!

Problem Solver

Who needs mom when you have a stool to push around? The stool and I have become BEST friends.