Mother's Day!

Mother's Day tea! 

 

 It's been awhile!  Spring is here and so is the pollen.  The weather is perfect and poor Carlos can barely stand to be outside. The sad thing is that once the pollen subsides, the mosquitoes and heat are likely to appear and torment Carlos.  Despite his aversions to being outside, we've been enjoying spring with little league games, dining outdoors, birthday parties and pick-up kickball games.


Charlie loves playing in little league.  They have graduated to coach pitching which is fun, though not always successful.  Here is Charlie hitting the ball and then watching his hit, not the base....We have a slight issue with Charlie's ability to end a game of catch - meaning once you start playing catch he will not end it.  "2 more catches....no, that wasn't enough....I didn't like that throw, one more....just one more..."  And on it goes....Almost every session of catch ends in tears because he doesn't want to stop.  Diego, on the other hand, is more than willing to put down his mitt and say he is tired!

This past weekend I left Carlos with kids at little league so I could play soccer.  Based on the pictures it appears that he left Diego to handle Sofia while he sat in the tiny patch of shade....you tell me...

The picture below is for my grandmother who might appreciate that all  three kids are enjoying tennis these days....though Sofia seems to enjoying eating the racket more than hitting the ball with it.  And you can probably guess that their record rally was 2 or 3 hits.  Another picture for my dad who would appreciate the kids' love of tracks.  We found an indoor track and finally got Diego to run an entire lap.  The kids are running a race this weekend so we'll see how it goes.  Sofia set up an obstacle course for the boys with the cones.

Sofia is in a screaming phase which isn't always pleasant.  She knows what she wants, but can't communicate it so just screams at the top of her lungs until we do something about it.  It's highly effective because it is so loud that we hurry around trying to find out what she needs to get her to be quiet! I do appreciate that she is assertive, even if it is ear piercing.  She seems to love random objects and balls more than any of the billions of toys we have for her.  She actually seems to dribble the ball.  ok, yes, I'm probably  imposing my values on her, but she definitely has some good soccer thunder thighs right now so she might be my soccer star :).

Sofia also likes to accompany everyone to the bathroom.  It drives me crazy how she likes to hang out in the bathroom - on more than one occasion she has stuck her hand in the toilet.  The silver lining of that seems to be that, in a house full of boys, I've finally convinced everyone to put the seat down!  Here she is getting in Diego's business!