Easter

For some reason, I did not take many Easter pictures this year.  All of our usual Easter supplies were packed, so we had to try out some new things.  Grant was actually excited about dying Easter eggs, but he kept grabbing the eggs out of the dye with his hands, so he was quite a mess.

We tried not to do too many eggs since the kids don't really eat them.  

Easter morning baskets and getting ready for the hunt.  Again, the usual Easter baskets were in the storage unit.

We caught this one trying to sneak his chocolate bunny before dinner.  I also didn't get a picture of them in Easter outfits, sad face here.  They didn't seem to mind that anything was missing because they were so excited that their cousins were coming the next day.

Grant's T-ball season

Grant was very excited to play T-ball finally.  We were able to get him on the same team as his best friend Jayden.  Danny wasn't able to coach because he was an assistant coach for Claire's softball team.  He helped out when the games didn't overlap. All of the boys were were 4-5 and for most of them this was the first time they had played baseball.  This was the first practice where Grant had just hit the ball off of the tee and is running to first base.

Even though he doesn't look excited he was for his first game.  His team was the Cubs.

Lots of parent and coach help in the field.  Grant was playing third here.

Chatting it up with Jayden before the game.

Running the bases.

Andrew was even able to help out at a couple of the games.

At the beginning of the season, they have all of the kids hit off of the tee.  As the season went on, they did coach pitch.

Fielding the ball was far harder for the kids than hitting.  Every time it was hit most of them forgot their positions and ran towards the ball.  In these three pictures Grant was able to field the ball and throw it to first base.

This picture isn't great quality because it was taken with my phone, but Grant would stand there with both hands up and fingers spread while playing first base. 

Eventually Grant was able to hit the ball really well on coach pitch, but I couldn't find the pictures of that.  There are no outs at base in T-ball and everyone hits every inning.  

It was a long but good season.  He really loved having Jayden on the team, although the coaches may not have sometimes.  Grant is going to try out soccer in the fall.

Softball season

Claire decided to play softball again this spring, it was going to be a challenge with the end of basketball season and with Grant playing t-ball.  They ended up needing an assistant coach for her team so Danny volunteered.  Claire was on the Royals this year and she was thrilled with the uniforms for her team.  I also got her a big softball bow for her hair but Danny said it interfered with her batting helmet.  Claire was much more excited about the season this year, I think because she knew more what to expect.  She also ended up having someone on her team that we knew from swim team. 

She practiced hitting a lot and definitely got better this season.  

Danny got to do a lot of coach pitch.

A happy hitter!

She got this ground ball and made the play at first.  It was really awesome!

She also wanted to try pitching.  There are probably only a few girls in the league that are decent at pitching, but everyone wants to try including Claire.

At the very end of the season she also tried being catcher.  I think that would be scary but she liked it.  She is going to play in the fall again.  She really made a lot of progress this season.