Laughs at the grocery store:

 Me:  What are you doing?!

Ty:  I just need some of this real quick.

Me:  What is it?  (laughing.)

Ty:  Just some of this 'odorant.

1/2

 JD has been out of town recruiting, but the kids and I had a little "party" tonight "for Isaac."   :)

 Halle picked the meal.

Cate helped bake the cake.

And Ty shot baskets.

 Isaac really cared.

 It was the girls' idea- and they loved every minute of the planning and decorating:

 It said "isaac's BiRTHday!"   :)

 

So.  Little guy is 6 months old today.  Wow.

He is chubby.  And squealy.

 He doesn't stay still.  He rolls and scoots, but he does NOT sit alone.  I think he's too fat.   :)

 Cate calls him "Happy-Baby" or "Roly-Poly"- both fit him well.

He has two teeth.  He eats rice cereal (doesn't love it.)

He is nowhere near crawling yet (he's gotten his knees under him a few times, but that's it) and this is his favorite hobby:

Supermans and crazy kicking!

 He is such a sweet baby.

I'm not in a hurry for anything with this one. 

Stay small, little man. 

Please.



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As I was fixing supper Ty came in the kitchen like this:

And said, "The ballgame is over.  I had to put my flip flops on to leave the gym."

He watches everything those big guys do!     :)

 

 

HERE is Cate at 6 months.

HERE is Ty at 6 months.

Road Trip

It was like old times this weekend as the kids and I rode the bus with the team to Atlanta.  Only we have more kids.  And it's a nicer bus.   And JD doesn't have to drive it.   :)

It's about 5 1/2 hours to Atlanta- Ty slept at least half of it:  

 My favorite part of the trip was seeing my Uncle Steve and cousin Lane, who live in the area and came to visit us at our hotel:

Thanks again, guys- it meant a lot to me, and the kids had so much fun!    :)

(Trevan says hi.) 

 Our game wasn't until Saturday evening, so we were in the hotel until heading to the gym that night at 5 pm.  Hotel life isn't that much different now with 4 kids, than it used to be with 2.  We just cram one more on the bed: 

 We bring games and a few toys:

 And (assuming its a clean tub/bathroom) we take long baths:

 With lots of toys:

 Hotel lunch:

I learned long ago to snatch extra milk and fruit from the breakfast bar.  :)

It also helped that they were all so tired from an extremely late night that they each slept for at least 2 hours in the afternoon.  At the same time!  While Kansas played on tv!   I thought I was dreaming for awhile. 

 

 

Our season ended in Atlanta.  We played fairly well, but they are just older and bigger and can shoot the lights out.  My favorite part of the game was when about 10 of our crazies from BMC walked in the door in full fan-regalia.  It was a shock to see them, and they had that gym rocking for us in the first half.  Unfortunately the other team sent some security to keep them quieter in the second half (unfairly.)  It felt like a home game for awhile though!   To read more about the game, go HERE. 

GOT one.

We went to Bethel last night and shocked them.  I'm pretty sure no one but us expected them to be out in the first round of the conference tournament!!  I am SO proud of our guys.

To read more about the awesome game, click here.

 

The kids and I surprised JD by showing up just as the game was starting.  He had no idea we were coming.  I just couldn't stand the thought of us winning and not being there!

Halle and Cate were pretty impressed that I knew one of the Bethel cheerleaders.

Sweet Madison played on a team that JD (and I) coached when Halle was a baby.  Cate declared that she was going to be a cheerleader too.  I declared that if she could do a back flip I would think about it.  :)   

Not joking.

 I'm glad I finished this up for Ty on Wednesday.  He. Was. Ecstatic. 

(It's just T-shirts pieced together.  And really not very well.)

 Jarvis and Jarvis:

  I laughed when Ty said, "HEY!  You're Jarvis and I'm Jarvis!  TWO Jarvises!" 

 

 

So we're off to Atlanta to play Life University on Saturday at 7:00 et.  They have beaten us twice this year (like Bethel) and we'll have to have another great game to get a win- but that's the fun part of this time of year: anything can happen.  

To watch the game on Saturday go here ----->  Life Basketball

Because it makes me laugh:

Cate was so proud to get every little bunny hooked together and arranged by color.  

JD was thrilled too.

So glad I have the picture to prove it happened.   Haha.  

This morning-

Ty started shooting baskets at 7:35.  I checked.  A few minutes later he came begging for shorts and a jersey (which is dirty). 

 What's that?  You don't have a basketball court in your house?    :)

 I finally painted the pink booster seat.  Ty was super happy to sit in it this morning:

 It's MondayCleaningDay and instead of TV I turned to the pile of boxes that didn't make it to the curb this morning.  These two played for two hours with them. 

They made a train:

(I also heard them discussing their rocket ships.)

 And then they became robots: 

I heard more "beeps" and "boops" this morning than ever in my life.

 (The downside to being a robot:)

*Yes.  Cate did get out of her pj's before lunch.  But just barely.

Jarvis.

 Ty spends a lot of time "being" Jarvis.*

 Today Jarvis was honored for scoring 1000 points:

 Ty drooled over that ball all.day.long.

(Pretending he scored "100 free throws":)

 It's so cool that he already has heroes.  (And that he has picked good ones!)

*Jarvis' name is invoked a ton at our house.  As in:  "Jarvis doesn't wear shorts when it's cold.  Jarvis eats the turkey on his sandwich.  And- Jarvis wears underwear like a big boy."    He has no idea how important he is around here!   :)