Katherine,

Sweet baby girl, 10 months old.  This month seems to have flown by, between the major projects around the house, homeschooling, and baseball, we haven't had a minute to spare around here.  But so many things have changed for you this month.

3-13, Lounging in her bedroom floor with her bottle

The biggest probably is that you have completely quit nursing in the last 3 weeks.  Within a week or so of your last post, you all of a sudden quit nursing except when you first woke up and when you last went to bed.  Then, you would nurse in the morning, but want a bottle to follow it.  After that you were only nursing for comfort at bedtime,to help yourself fall asleep, and in the last week, you haven't even done that.  To get to sleep you have to have a bottle though.  You still won't take a pacifier.  There are nights when you wake up that Daddy goes in to give you back your bottle, and you'll drink a little before going back to sleep.  He was pleasantly surprised the other morning, when you managed to pick it up, get it back in and fall back on your pillow.  I've thought about swapping you over to a sippy cup, but I don't think you could use the ones we still have from the others, and I hate to waste money on the soft top ones with handles that you'll only use a couple of months, so I guess we'll wait a little longer on that.

3-1, Dr Appt day - 28 inches and 16.1 lbs.

You abruptly quitting nursing was a bit bittersweet for me.  We haven't ruled out a little sibling for your one day, but I think for the first time we are feeling like we could be done with this baby business.  As much as I hate nursing, and I really do, it was kinda sad to think that we might be done with this stage of life, with tiny babies that are so very needy.  And your Daddy was less than thrilled because formula cost even more than it did for Rebecca about 4.5 years ago.  He had alot of grumbling about why in the world couldn't you just nurse another month and a half then we could have swapped you straight to regular milk.

3-24, She's not ashamed of eating this at all.

You still only have two teeth, but boy do you like to eat.  Paper and fabric seem to be your preference.  Just this morning you shredded half of a notepad that I was keeping note for school things to look into.  You also like to pull off your socks and chew on them.  You really hate wearing socks, no matter how chilly it is.  And you chew on blankets, well not exactly chew on them.  You put them in your mouth, bite down with those two teeth, and pull it out.  You do this over and over and over.  Last night at the ball field, you did it with the edge of my Auburn coat.  It's fluffy like a blanket.  You do occasionally chew on your pacifier, but you almost never suck on it.

3-5, Playing in her high chair at supper time.

You are only eating two meals a day.  The doctor wanted us to try to up your formula and decrease your table food when we were in there last, your growth curve has dropped off a bit.  You are still in the 25 percentile for height, but are now down to right around the 10 percentile for weight.  You get something for a late breakfast, and then you get supper either with us, or around 5 before we start all of the ball practice and games.  There is still not a food you won't eat.  Though you have figured out how to take an English pea, get all the pea out and then spit out the shell.  Makes peas much messier now.

3-23, Rocking with Daddy.

Perhaps the biggest change this month, is just how much you are trying to walk.  You squat most of the time when you are playing in the floor now, rather than sit.  And you frequently stand up in the middle of the floor, up and down you go.  You will let go and take 2 to 3 steps from my knee in the front porch rocker to the screen to watch the kids run around the yard.  And if Daddy is close enough, you will sometimes let go of the couch and step toward him.  There is still alot of falling, but mostly you land on your backside.  You still like to come into the kitchen when I'm working on lunch, or Daddy is cooking supper, and grab on to our pants.  Now though, you put one hand on each leg, and step with us.  You've gotten pretty fast at it.  I have to slow down stepping from place to place, but not all that much.  I've also had to start using the baby gate to keep you off of the back porch, where all the little toys are.

3-9, Sisters sharing a room.  Rebecca and Kate.

Another big change is that we moved Rebecca into your room with you.  Your sleeping has improved.  Though most nights Daddy has to go in there and give you back your bottle at least once.  Luckily Rebecca isn't the insanely light sleeper she was when she was your size.  She's not woke up with you fussing once.  She's so excited to share a room with you.  All month the two of you have been getting baths together.  You seem to love her fussing over you.  She likes to tell you about how when you are bigger you can sleep on the bottom of the bunk bed with her.

3-14, Rocking at nap time on the front porch.

Daddy thinks you still clearly prefer me, and it's most evident when I sneak out of a room, only to have you travers the house looking for me.  But you love it when he is home too.  You follow him around with your eyes.  Last night at the ball field, you were sitting in the wagon during Britt's game, and every time Daddy would walk back behind you or off to the other side, you would turn and watch him, or stand up and try to get to him.  At Church you watch him when he leads or when he sits with us on the bench.  And you are most inamored with his goatee.  You like to pet it.  The other day when we were talking with Mrs. Paige and Mr. Daniel, he was holding you.  You kept reaching for his goatee and then Daddy would say something and you'd stop and wait.  Then you'd reach for it again, and he'd answer Mr. Daniel, and you'd stop and wait.  You had me and Mrs. Paige just laughing.  You really love all of your family.  After Ruth was gone for a week to Memaw's house, you couldn't get enough out of smiling at her.  Rebecca and you spend alot of time together now, playing in your bedroom floor.  And Britt, he can make you laugh more than anyone else.

3-17, St. Patrick's Day, on our way to the Sugar Festival.

You are babbling more and more now too.  You say "Bwa, bwa" for Britt.  I guess you've heard me talk about "your brother" so much that's what you try to say.  Britt just lights up when you say it.  He'll lean over your car seat in the car, or pick you up at the kitchen table during school.  He thinks it's his personal job to make you laugh and babble.  Ruth also insists that you are making an r sound, but you aren't.  You say "Dada," mostly as a string of sounds, but when I ask you where Da-da is, you look for Daddy and when you find him, you grin and reach for him.  You were saying "Ma-ma" some but are making other sounds now.  Sometimes when you get real upset you cry "mamamamamama."  But any of the kids can tell you to go to Momma and off you start toward me.  You obviously know your name is Katherine because we can call you and you turn and smile.  Ironically enough, you don't always turn and answer to Kate, even though with the kids and your Daddy using it, you hear it more.  Daddy also calls you Katy-did.

3-22, Cuddling with Momma and Britt in the big bed.

Katherine, Little Love, Rainbow, Katy-did, Kate no matter what we call you, you are a joy.  Full of love and happiness.  Easily the most relaxed and contented of our children.  We love you so much, and are so very thankful to have you in our lives.

I love you,
Momma

Write a story about the day that everything you touched, turned green.  (When you read Rebecca's story you have to pronounce the "th" in mother as a "v" to get the full effect.)

When I woke up, I took a cup and filled it up to take a drink, and I saw it had turned green.  I yelled, "Mother look, my cup's green, it turned green!"

And then my mother picked it up and said, lets see if we can wash it off.  She tried to wash it off, but it didn't and she said, "You got to throw it away."

And I said, "Ok Mother."

And then she throwed it away.  And my brother named Elisha Britt Joy Cunningham and my mother told him to take out the garbage with that green cup, that I drunk water in and it turned green.  That cup was still in the trash can, and it got crushed with the other trash in the trash truck.  And then my mother said to me, "Do math."

And I touched the pencil and it turned green, and every time I tried to write with it it broke.  And I kept having to sharpen it, it got littler and littler, until I had to throw it away.  And then I got another pencil, and it did it all, all over again.  And then I finally got a pencil that wouldn't turn to green.  Then after that I was done with school.  I went to ride my bike and when my helmet touched my head it turned green, and my bike did too.  And I could barely peddle my bike.  And then after I peddled my bike, I feeled like I wanted to play with my brother's legoes.  I touched his favorite lego, the robot lego and it turned green.  Then he got mad at me.  Then I touched Max his sleeping buddy, and it turned green.  He got even madder at me.  We then goed to bed.  When I went to bed, I pulled up the covers and they turned green.  And I wasn't very warm, and I could barely get out of my covers and off my bed.  The End.

It's officially spring, and Southwest Florida has obliged us, by scaling down what was already the start of a scalding summer.  Several other families recently have shared Day in the Life post, and just last week, another soon to be homeschooling mom, asked what our days look like.  I've thought about doing one of these for a while, and so I thought, I'll sit down and do it today.  Of course the disclaimer, I have to add, is that while there are some common features to all of our days, most of our days have a high degree of variation, after all I have four children in this household, and flexibilty in it's many aspects continues to be the number one reason why we homeschool.

6:45 Gary woke me up to give me a kiss and tell me bye, before leaving for work.  He normally leaves about 6:20 or 6:30.  He's running late this morning.  I don't remotely remember him leaving.  I frequently don't I'm seriously NOT a morning person.

7:02 Britt and Ruth both show up in my bed, claiming that they didn't sleep any last night.  I only know the time, because I knocked the phone of the night stand scooting over to make room for them.  We all go back to sleep.

8:20ish Britt wakes up and wants to go fix a bowl of cereal.  I remind him to get dressed and pick up his room before he can go play with his legoes on the back porch.  I also remind him no tv, as we are trying out some new electronic limits.

8:45 I give up on getting anymore sleep, with Ruth abusing me in the bed.  I wonder when I'm going to adjust to the time change, and get up at 8 without feeling like I've been run down by a truck.  I must be the exception to the homeschooling rule.  These moms that start their day at 6am or earlier sound like someone from another planet.  Who wants to be up before the sun?  Shortly there after Kate wakes up, so I fix her a 5 oz bottle, since the bigger ones aren't clean.  I go out to the back porch to see if Britt and Rebecca have done asked.  They have eaten but they are still in pajamas.  I send them to get dress.  Then have Rebecca hang out with Kate, while Britt helps me drag a few more downed tree limbs to the road, the wind last night, dislodged some more that broke off during the Hurricane.

9 am The temperature is great, so I open all the doors, and turn off the air.  I call Gary for the first time today, consulting on whether or not to force Ruth up.  Like her Momma she likes her sleep, but this is late for her.  Verdict let her sleep till school time.  I feed Kate almost half a banana then eat the rest.  Then, vacuum the house, with her trailing me around the house.  I have to set up the baby gate, because she just figured out how to navigate down the steps and she's bee-lining toward the legoes on the back porch.  I clean up the kitchen, and start the dishwasher, since I forgot to after supper last night.  Then, I straighten up part of the back porch.

9:45 I wake up Ruth, send her to get dressed, brush, hair and eat the cereal at her spot at the table.  I warn Britt and Rebecca that they have 15 minutes till school time.

10 am To start the day, Rebecca has to pick up her room since she forgot when she got up, then she has to fold towels.  There is much wailing and nashing of teeth.  After threatening a spanking and loss of school, she gets started.  Ruth drags into the kitchen to eat.  Britt says he's almost done with his lego creation.  I remind him that his morning chore today is to vacuum the kids bedrooms, and he can't do that till he picks up the mess that was in his room that he didn't last night, and he didn't when he got up.

10:20, Ruth is finally finished with her breakfast, and I send her off to her morning chore cleaning my bathroom.  I set down from hurrying people along to scroll through facebook for a few minutes.  I usually do that before I get up, but didn't this morning.  I remember I want to write this post.  Katherine stops following me around to chew on my computer cord.

10:53 I realize I've lost my phone again.  I text Gary from the ipad to call it before his meeting starts so I can find it.  Three calls later, I find it on the back porch.  Rebecca puts up the last of her 5 poorly folded towels, I will have to fix them on my shelf later.  She bounces off excited to start school.  I start her on math, since she doesn't need much help with it.  We usually start with Alpha-Phonics, but I am still corralling the others.


11:11 Finally finished with morning jobs, Britt begins to set up the letters for All About Spelling and lays out his and Ruth's handwriting books.  He and Ruth start with handwriting this morning, while I look over our school planner, and finish filling in a few things I want to accomplish today.  School will be tight today, since we have afternoon activities, and we didn't start right at 10.  Rebecca moves on to handwriting.  Katherine is ready for her second 5 oz bottle of the day.

11:24 Someone has knocked the sale ads off the table, and Katherine is attempting to eat them.  That child likes to eat paper better than food.  Rebecca moves on to some flashcards I made to review the first 7 lessons she's done in Alpha Phonics.

12:04  Kate has just drifted off to sleep with me rocking her at the table, so I lay her down in her bed.  Rebecca moves on to some reading readiness pages in one of her workbooks that we got from who knows where or when.  Britt and Ruth start All About Spelling with me.  During all this time, I say about a million times, pick up your pencil, stop knocking the letters in the floor, we are not fighting over letters to spell them first.  And I have to wonder how much faster they would complete school if they just cooperated with me.

12:15 I stick the left over ziti from last night in the oven.  Gary usually carries the left overs for his lunch the following day, but he has a meeting today, and they are providing lunch.  So, there's enough for the kids to split.  We are going to need to eat earlier today, since Ruth has speech.  I munch on the last of my tuna fish and crackers while doing spelling with the kids.

12:56 Spelling is finished.  Ruth goes to unload the dishwasher.  Britt does his journaling.  Rebecca is finishing up her coloring on her reading sheets.

1:07 The kids eat lunch while I read our current read aloud to them.  Right now we are reading "Gone Away Lake" for our next book club meeting, with our fellow home schoolers here in town.

1:26 I tell the kids to get on shoes and get in the car.  Katherine wakes up cranky.

1:31 We pull out of the driveway.

1:37 We arrive at Speech two minutes late.  I hate being late.  Seems to happen fairly often though, grr.  For the next hour while Ruth is in Speech at the local elementary school, Britt and Rebecca pick Anastasia to watch on the car DVD player.  Kate starts out sitting with Britt, but ends up fussy.  So I put up my ipad and notebook hoping to do my bible reading later, and hold the baby.


2:45 I pull out of the school mad house parking lot, and head for CVS to pick up a prescription.  While in the Drive Thru I fix Kate a 4 oz bottle, and mentally remind myself to put a new container of formula in the diaper bag.  After sitting there a while. They can't get our insurance straight, so I leave and swing by the doctor's office to pick up my latest lab results.  Then I go through the drive thru at Wendy's.  Sometimes after Speech I let the kids have a key chain frosty, and today seems like a good day for it.

3:18 I drop Ruth off at Speech, and come home to call Gary about the insurance.  He says he'll check and pick up the prescription.  He tells me about arrangements for a co-workers funeral, and tells me he probably won't be home in time to pick up the kids from ball, for me to plan to get them.  Meanwhile Britt takes out the trash and Rebecca does her afternoon chore of washing dishes.

3:48 Memaw calls, while we are on the phone Britt dozes off leaned up against me.

4:18 Britt wakes up to blog with me, but is CRANKY.  I offer him some Dr. Pepper, but he's uncooperative.  Maybe he really didn't sleep much last night.  So, I send him off to change into baseball clothes, and Kate follows him, babbling her sound for him "Bwa, Bwa." Rebecca brings me a note rolled up on toilet paper, she hasn't been washing dishes.  She has copied my note to Britt for when he got home from shooting club yesterday, before I got back from ball practice to carry him to his game.  When he is dressed, ten minutes later, we try again, and get a story that has both of us laughing.

4:43 I pick up Ruth from sewing and we all head to ball practice.  Britt starts at 5, so we are there a few minutes early.  I leave when his coach pulls up.  Then we go over to Ruth's practice field.  We are there quite a bit early, so I spend about 20 minutes playing catch with her and a couple of other girls that get there before their coach.  Rebecca asks me to turn on the Eagles in the car, and sings to Kate who falls asleep.

5:22 We leave Ruth at softball practice and head back to CVS.  Gary called them, and got whatever straightened out, so we pick up my prescription before coming home.  Rebecca chatters non stop about riding her bike, playing a game just us, and baking brownies before we have to get the other two.  I leave Kate asleep in her car seat with all the doors open.  She never stays asleep if I try to move the seat, or get her out.  Rebecca first has to finish the dishes that she didn't finish before we took everyone to practice.  I go to put the chicken in the bowl to soak, but I'm out of soy sauce.  I call Gary to verify what time he's coming home for supper, and that he's still planning to grill chicken.

6:00 At Rebecca's insistence, I again put aside my ipad and bible study time on the front porch. She and I play a short game of checkers, that follow no known rules, but I still manage to win in 8 minutes flat.

6:18 We are back in the van on the way to pick up kids from ball practice.  Rebecca manages to wake up Kate as she gets in.  So she might have managed a 45 minute nap.  Really good for her, since she doesn't really nap in the afternoon any more.  While we wait Rebecca sits on a blanket in the grass and plays with her newest Barbie - Pocahontas.  I pull out my iPad and have a little Bible study time finally for about 15 minutes.

6:58  We arrive back home, both practices ran over.  Britt goes to wash up some more rocks and a massive conk shell we found in the yard, to add to the collection he has for me on the front porch.  Rebecca goes out to ride her bike.  Ruth sits down to blog with me.

7:11 I move the towels that I washed overnight last night to the drier, and forgot to move this morning, before I agree to make brownies with Rebecca.  Ruth goes out to ride her bike, I decide that we won't pursue any of the other school stuff I thought we might work in today.  I hope Gary's on his way here to cook.  I'm hungry.  Kate is following me around fussing, so I fix her another 5 oz bottle, and start some English peas on the stove top.  They can go with supper if I can convince anyone else to eat them, and if not, I'll make Kate some more baby food.  I go around picking up the school stuff, and miscellaneous junk that kids have left strewn around the house today, despite the fact we've not been here half the time.

7:43 I pull the peas off the stove, and sit down to attempt to finish my bible reading in the front porch.  Only to discover that the iPad is dead.  So I pull up the KJV on my phone.

7:52 Gary pulls up.  I have him get the kids started picking up their toys and things on the back porch.  Not quite 5 minutes into it Rebecca throws a toy at Britt, Britt is screaming, Daddy gets to start handing out spankings.

7:58 Gary comes back to the front porch to talk and rock the baby.  As the timer on the brownies goes off.  I get them before I come back.


8:17 Gary goes to start on supper and I go back to my Bible reading.  2 minutes later Britt shows up on the front porch to talk.  Then Rebecca comes to ask if I will read her read aloud book now.  Ruth then asks about her book.  Britt wants me to read his blog to Ruth.  About 8:30 I give up, and I hand him the phone to read it to her, decide it's getting too cold on the front porch, and I come in.  I tell Rebecca to fold the rest of the towels.  Cue a riot.  Gary is frying chicken.

9:06 I finish cleaning up most of the supper dishes, as Gary dishes everything on to plates for supper.  Rebecca kept being distracted by Britt, so he got to help her fold and put away towels.  We finally eat supper, about 2.5 hours later than usual.  But on Wednesday Gary's t-ball team doesn't practice or play games, so he tries to work late on those nights.  I often cook on Wednesday, but he wanted to grill chicken tonight, and I don't touch his grill.

9:42 Everyone is finished eating and has put their dishes away.  Britt is doing his evening chore, mopping the bedrooms.  Ruth is cleaning her and Britt's bathroom.  Gary finishes up feeding Kate and will give her a bath.  She's still going strong despite it being an hour past her bedtime.  Rebecca is in pjs and ready for me to read to her.  Her current read aloud, is the book that she got for her birthday "Fairy Ponies."

10:00 Rebecca goes to bed an hour late, as I finish reading to her.  Ruth is ready for me to read to her.  We are starting the 5th book in the Addy series in the American Girls collection.  Gary has Kate cleaned up, a bottle fixed, and puts her to bed.

10:20 I've finished reading to Ruth.  Britt was just too wore out to wait up for me.  Sometimes I do his reading about 9:20, sometimes, I skip and he comes to my bed first thing in the morning and I read a chapter or two of the current Redwall book before I get up.  Since he's out I go and finish cleaning up in the kitchen.  Gary put all the food away, fixed his plate for lunch tomorrow, but I wipe everything down.  We let Rebecca skip dish washing tonight, and Britt skipped sweeping, so that needs doing as well.  I normally have some laundry or school work that needs to be finished up about this time of day.  Tonight, I just look over the schedule and lesson plans for tomorrow.  Take a few minutes and scan through facebook.

10:38  Gary's been watching some Harrison Ford movie set in WWII, but he'd like me to read some of the book we've been reading aloud.  So, I am scraping the rest of the plans for this evening, and getting ready for bed.

10:56 I climb in bed with the iPad, thinking we'll probably read about an hour or so before heading to bed.  Only to start it all over again in 6 to 7 hours.  But we finish up the book just shy of midnight.

11:58 Gary turns back on his Harrison Ford movie.

12:28 He decided to turn it off that he might be ready for bed.  What ends up happening is that we lay in the dark and talk about his day at work until 1 am.

1:07 I hear him snoring and thing, I really should get to sleep.

You followed a rainbow, what did you find at the end?

It was a rainy day, and I thought nothing would go good.  And the sun came out and the rain got lighter, so I could go outside.  And there was this huge rainbow, so I decided to follow it.  I rided my bicycle as fast as I could, and half way there I found leprechauns!  And they were tipping over benches, unscrewing the bike, trying to slow me down, so the rainbow would stop before I could get there.  And I got passed the leprechauns and then I found a green dragon made out of four leaf clovers.  And I had to get passed it.  And the easiest way was to go over it.  So I had to ride up a ramp, jump on the dragon and ride down it's tail.  And then I thought next would be the pot of gold.  But there was a gigantic leprechaun, and he was throwing happy faces all over everything, as he threw trash cans and benches everywhere.  And there was a teeny tiny leprechaun in a control room to the side controling the gigantic leprechaun.  I destroyed the controls and then I found the big pot of gold.  And Momma got rich and paid off all our debts.  And we got to go to Disney World so many times.  I think that's all.  The end.

What would you do if you saw a leprechaun running across the yard, in his most sneaky fashion?

I would follow him and take the gold.  He was fast, so I used a motorbacycle.  He heard me, and scrambled really fast, so I just ran him over.  It was so easy, because he kept going in a straight line.  After I ran him over I grabbed the gold, but not him.  I left him there, but then he chased me because he wanted his gold back.  But since I was still on the motorcycle, I turned around and ran over him.  So he got a tiny motorcycle from a Leprechaun Motorcycle shop.  So you know what I did?  I stopped at a gas station, and borrowed a semi and I ran him over again.  Then I ran away, but I kept hitting trees, so he followed me.  I put a balloon person, to look like he was driving, and I put a wallet full of rocks in it's pocket.  And turned it loose.  He followed the semi while I ran away.  But then he caught up to me, when he figured out the trick.  I got home safely, and he still out there searching for me and his gold.  Until the tale continues...

I love our little home. I fell in love with the yard before I even saw the inside. Which was probably good cause the inside needed lots of love.  And we've done so much work on the inside since we moved in. In fact the only thing that hasn't been painted is the kitchen cabinets, bathroom walls, and the exterior doors. But we haven't done much outside. About this time last year, Gary yanked out all the overgrown shrubbery that was planted way too close to the house, and the girls to took their money to make themselves a faerie garden and a butterfly garden, in their own little areas.  And they made pretty little areas even if there have been times I have had to go out and pulled foot tall weeds because they let it go for about a month.






 Gary started painting the house for me back in December. I think the blue makes the white brick look so pretty. He has got to finish the cutting in still around the faerie garden and the AC unit, but it looks great from the front. We still haven't settled on a trim color. I am thinking black shutters (we still need to replace one from the Hurricane) and black on the metalwork under the carport to cover the confederate blue. Then maybe white up around the eaves. Still no consensus on the front door. I'd like to replace it with one with a big piece of glass to let in more light, but Gary isn't going for the price tag. Anyway, he has hung some pictures and things for me this week, such as moving my flag holder to the front porch, so my next flag won't fade in the sun so fast, or get beat to death in the constant wind. Beautiful day, with my beautiful helpers.

 Britt's room was my first project. I decided to drag his bed out from against the wall for him to clean all the trash, toys, and clothes from that bottomless pit, when he asked if we could move the bed so that he could get to stuff without asking me to move it. So after thinking about it. I told him we could try moving it to the other wall to see if it fit. So we swapped his Chester drawers and bed, then, cleaned out his closet. Short couple hour project back on Feb. 28th.










 On Tuesday all I did for Rebecca was reassemble the bunk bed with alot of help from Ruth. All day Wednesday and the part of Thursday that I was home I worked on Rebecca and Kate's room. I even put up the wall clings that came with Kate's bedding that I had never decided what to do with them. Oddly enough Rebecca's favorite part is the closet. She has all her breakable stuff from her bookcase on the dresser in there. She is also using it as her "changing room."  She has been most excited about taking baths with Kate and getting to keep all their bathstuff in there, and not get it out for Ruth. She also likes picking out Kate's clothes when she gets hers out. I have to really insist if I want to do it. Rebecca also got some baby doll stuff from our T-ball mom which she has played with almost constantly and has been trying to teach Kate how to play with them. Rebecca decided the twin babies are for Kate and she's given her the kissy doll that she doesn't play with anymore.

All in all everyone seems happy with the new arrangements.

Tonight was my first baseball game in minors.  At the beginning when the guys first started batting we got three points.  I missed when I swung two times.  The last strike it was way over my head but I swung at it so it was a strike.  When Eunice went up to bat, he got hit by the ball and got on first base.  Aiden got to third base, he hit and got on first, then stole all the way to third base.  We also had another good hit, and he got all the way to second.  At the end it was 7-2, we won!  We could have played longer, but Coach says it's not nice to make other teams look like garbage.  He said we all did great.  And even though I didn't get the game ball, he said it wasn't only him that made us win, but that we were a whole team working together.  I had a good time, it was really fun.  Even if I had to stay in one time, and couldn't hit the ball.

It's different from Rookie ball, because we can steal bases.  We also have a better idea about what another team is bringing at us, what they can do.  We have more things that we can do to try to win.  It's different too because we are going against each other instead of our coach using a pitching machine.  I can't wait to play again tomorrow night.

Yesterday was my first softball game.  Our team was losing, and when we got on base, we didn't get a point.  After the first inning they had 3 pts.  But in the last inning Natty hit a home run, when we had 2 on base.  Then two more girls hit and made it home.  So we won 5-3.  Our second game, today, we won 3-0, and I got the game ball.  I got it because he said, I didn't give up.  I kept a good attitude.  Sometimes they call you Little Bit, I'm the youngest on the team, but I fouled off two balls this week with the pitching machine.


Coach Eric works with Daddy, and he mostly makes us run to the wall and back after switches, and before we start throwing.  In our first practice, one of the coaches put the glove down, it would be like a base, we had to run around it and back, and if we complained we had to do it again.  Then he buyed some white spray paint, and some bases from last year, so we ran all the bases and he marked out a field.  And Coach Eric taught us to say, "infield go one, outfield go two."  Sometimes to say, "infield go closest bag, outfield go second."  He's a very good coach.


Softball is different from t-ball because our Coach pitches with a pitching machine.  They are also a little bit bigger balls, and it's really a little bit harder for me to catch.  You are really competing, in t-ball you can hit anytime, but in softball, if you don't swing the bat at the right time, you can't hit the ball.  It's also more exciting than t-ball, because there's no outs or points, but in softball there's everything.

Last night I had my first t-ball game of the season.  I like t-ball.  Only the games though, because the games you can get coke or a ring pop or chips or juice in a bottle.  I also like hitting the ball and running to the bases.  One time I got to be the first batter.  And, the reason why I love hitting, is because I get to run to bases - first base, all the way to third base, then you go back to home plate.  It's the first, first, main plate.  If you don't have home plate you can't do the game, because it's where you bat, and if you don't bat you don't catch, and if you don't catch you can't throw either.  I do not like to catch.  Daddy is my coach.  Well, he's kinda a good coach.  Because he makes me throw, and I don't like throwing.  Except the batting part and the running part.  I'm excited for my next game.  And by the way, before it's the end, we have to say the end, and bye-bye.  Now it's the end of the thing. Bye.