Recital 2009

I didn't take a video of the actual recital because he was too far away. But I did record him playing his recital piece at home. Needless to say, he rocks! I continue to be amazed by his progress and I'm totally jealous of his ability. This is the first year he's played what I would call a "real" song. It's a bit long, but really pretty and he does a great job! So enjoy.

Lily's First Game-post #2

Up to Bat! She hit like a pro!

Playing "pitcher". She got lots of action at that position and did herself proud. Here's her "ready" stance.

This is a few minutes later....her "ready" stance is a bit more relaxed.

With Daddy after the game. Darrin was out helping in the field during the game (t-ballers need lots of help) and Lily was excited!

Lily's First Game-post #1

She was awesome and adorable and funny. She did really well, actually made some plays and hit the ball. You can't really ask for more than that in t-ball. There's so many cute pictures, this'll be two postings...sorry.

During Fall Ball, all of the teams are minor-league team names. Lily is on the Sandgnats. She loves it, and it's pretty cute.

Even the way she stands before the pledge is sassy. I love it!

Standin' on 3rd, coolest girl in town.

Hussling home! She missed the plate the first time around and when they told her to go touch the plate, she went over and daintily touched the corner of it with her toe. Awesome!

Jane was on the edge of her seat during all of the action!!

Hot Mess/Hot Stuff

Those of you who watch SYTYCD are well familiar with the phrase "hot mess". It is the only phrase that I feel is appropriate to describe Lily's first t-ball practice this week. Needless to say, she needs a lot of work. I'm not saying she won't have the skills to play once she gets some practice in...but she basically spent the majority of the first practice dancing around in circles, staring off into space and rubbing dirt all over the front of her shirt?! She did, however, look awesomely adorable while being a complete disaster. Here ya go:

Onto the "hot stuff". We've been meaning to take Lily's training wheels off for quite some time, but just haven't gotten around to it until today. I'm not exaggerating when I say, Darrin took them off, went up the street and back with her once and then she was riding like this!!!! She's a total pro. She can even get herself started already (that skill took Connor a few months to develop). I readily admit to being a little teary-eyed as I watched her. Just one more thing that signifies the growing up of my baby, won't she ever stop?!!

Really really ridiculously good looking...

First day of school. My baby's in kindergarten. In addition to being really really ridiculously good looking, she's also incredibly easy-going and well-adjusted so she didn't have any difficulties...unless you count being a little upset about the prospect of me staying in her classroom after I dropped her off. Her exact words were, "...then you're leaving, right?". I guess it's better than a crier.

They both had a great first day, are really happy with their teachers and their classes. Yippee!

Crocker Family Fun

I know this is a bit after the fact (all of my blog posts are)...but I wanted to post the few pictures I took of our fun visit. My parents and Logan came for a 4-day visit at the end of July and we all had such a blast. We all went to a Padres game their first day in town, and even though my boys got their booties trashed (big surprise there), we still had so much fun. Darrin, my dad and the kids went to the beach and played baseball Thursday while the moms were at Comic-con. On Friday, we went to Disneyland/California Adventure to have a belated birthday/baptism celebration for Logan. We were there for over 12 hours and had a super great time, despite the heat (I can't speak for my Mom here, she might disagree). Logan hadn't been to Disneyland since he was 2, so it was basically his first time. He went on every roller coaster except the big one at CA adventure and he LOVED Space Mountain. It was a fun-filled visit and it just made me miss my Mommy and Daddy even more than I normally do. I only took my camera with me one day and didn't take that many pictures, I was too busy having a good time. But here's what I did take. Hopefully my mom will share the gazillion pictures she took....

Baby Jane being such a very tired but very good girl.

The boys being silly and loving each other.

"L" is for Logan. Check out his peace sign, he's so hip.

Darrin and the boys on the teacups. Lily, Dad and I were on another one and we totally kicked their trash!

The kids with Walt and Mickey.

Lily's Preschool Graduation

I know this is nearly a month late, but better late than never, right? My little darling Lily graduated from preschool on June 10th. She loved Miss Paula and all of her friends at Little Bugs Preschool, but she's so super excited to start kindergarten this fall. She asks me at least three times a week if it's time for her to start kindergarten yet. We bought all of her little uniforms and she tried one on and I thought I was going to cry. I have a feeling it's going to be a rough Aug. 27th for me...here are a few pics of her big graduation day, plus a video that shows her funny saucy little self. Man, I love this girl!!

Lily and Miss Paula. We'll miss her so much, although I probably won't miss showing up at her house at 9:00am looking like a street vagabond while she looks like a supermodel.

Some of you may remember the picture of her at last year's graduation ceremony looking bored out of her mind...things haven't changed much.

Lily and all her buds at Little Bugs. Of course she's smack dab in the middle of all the boys, it seems like she always is. Tomboy or crazy flirt, I can't decide.

This video is a great glimpse of Lily's personality...I love her silly yet matter of fact tone of voice. I don't know how she pulls it off, but she does.