a little baseball update

This looks to be a good year for little league baseball. We've had several games this week, including some makeup games from opening day. Rylee is catching the first inning of every game and getting hits. I love to watch him run the bases. I love seeing how Jackson is playing this year. The coach is playing him at short stop and lead-off batter. Jack made a beautiful 6-4 play the other day.

There still aren't many put-outs in Jack's division. Lots of K's on the score sheet. Yesterday's game against the Yankees (with a couple of Jack's classmates and friends on it) featured a lot of hits and runs. The other team didn't show for Monday's makeup game, so the boys had some fielding practice in their uniforms that day. They looked great. The coach and I joked before Tuesday's game how good they looked, but the game last night was pretty sloppy. Still the Red Sox won by 1, 15-14, much to the surprise of the Yankees parents sitting around me.

The garage is finished, and the car is moved back in. Jack and I made some adjustments last night to hang the baseball bags and Ry's skateboard. Cyndi cleaned up some stuff I piled up on the side of the house, sending everything off to recycling and Good Will.

On Friday, we tried a new barbecue place, and I wrote this review on TripAdvisor:
Review of The Cube

Easter is coming. The boys are getting some new clothes, some Legos and art supplies. Ry is busy constructing his own Lego vehicles and structures, all very elaborate and often very symmetrical in design. After he plays with them for a while, he takes them apart and builds new ones. He's often on the Legos website, researching all the building sets there are and describing all the mini-figures he wants. Meanwhile, Jack's builds Lego structures on the web and he wants to get some software to make movies. He's particularly interested right now in sound effects and stop motion animation. Jackson! If you're reading this:



I think that's basically what he wants to do. A little camera, Movie Maker software, and an easy manual. Knowing the boys, they'll be on YouTube figuring this all out. We talked last night that it may be time to get a new computer for the boys' room, a desk top this time, that can handle the bigger graphics needs that are likely coming. Is it also time for a Mac? (Ariel and Dad would know.)

Meanwhile, Ry wrote a three-chapter illustrated book yesterday, called "The Man Who Was Boring," the sad tale of a man who gets run over by something.