Blast Ball (it's like T-Ball)

Loading 'em up.

It's not as easy as it looks.

Playing catch with a teammate.

Waiting for the ball to be hit . . .

Strike 8 . . .

Batting from the left side . . .

She's choking up a bit on the bat . . .

Rianne, did you know that being "on deck" and "in the hole" actually originated from terms in the Navy where someone was waiting literally on a deck or in a hole on an aircraft carrier. . .

Certainly gets her hips engaged on the windup!

I'm going to hit the ball with my eyes closed . . .

Let's go with eyes open for now . . .

And now she's batting righty . . .

Run! Seeya next week.

One Day they will see Ocean City, Maryland, Hon.

My dad used to let us sleep in the back of the station wagon on our way to Ocean City, Maryland

Here are the girls at the "beach" in Iowa. 

Are there jelly fish in there?

It's so perfect, I just want to look at it.

Princesses in the foreground and the background.

There's so much sand, can we take it home?

Alright, Sumo challenge! Castle, I'm going to squish you!

A picture we should take every year. I can't wait until they get to see the Atlantic Ocean.

Yes, we're that cute in our workout outfits.

Ahhh, and little cloud became . . . a bunny rabbit!

Shouldn't you be making sure I don't fall off the horse instead of taking that picture?

Terps to be? Seeya next week!

Six Videos: Shopping, Blastball, and Pizza with Ice Cream

Here's a group of fun videos that I've kind of amassed. 

Blastball

Easter Egg Hunt

The box

Driver cart

Birthday Shopping 1

Shopping 2

Too smart for their own good

We figured out that if we hang on the sides, there is more room in the cart for our birthday presents!

So many possibilities!

Brielle: So the trick is to get it past the geese and to the little ducks . . .

Brielle: The total distance d is equal to v, the speed at which the projectile is launched times the cosine of theta, the angle that it is launched at, ideally 45 degrees, over the gravity constant g times . . . 

Rianne: Or you could just throw enough bread in that supply exceeds the demand of all three of the animals you are trying to feed . . .

Can we go swing now?

Maybe a step stool?

And jump again . . .

Finally got on. . . .

Playing with a puzzle Brielle? I'm separating like-colored pieces by their negative space.

Playing with a train Rianne? I'm testing magnetic dipole-dipole interactions and calculating the potential energy of the interaction. . . that "boy" might be "playing with trains"

Teagan, playing with an iPad? Actually, I'm developing an SQL relational database using Toad to track my toys . . .

Dad, it seems you are underestimating our cognitive power, I hope you've started saving for college, professional degrees already cost upwards of $300,000 at the elite colleges . . .

Eggs and Cows

Sometimes the box is as fun as the toys that come in it.

I'm going down, down, down, I'm going down . . .

Oh my cute dress . . .

No Brielle, don't do it . . . Teagan: Mom, Brielle's picking her nose . . . (you can put the girl in the dress . . . )

They were actually pretty good at this egg toss. . .

The five girls Gracie, Brielle, Rianne, Teagan, and Ellie.

Dad, does the cat really live out here?

Let's go get it!

Ellie push harder, we wan to go super high!

Another day at the office.

We're going on an Easter egg hunt soon!

I'm going to fill the whole bucket up to the top!

And I'm going to take the candy from her bucket and put it in my bucket!

Cow.

Dad can we have a cow?

Why don't we ask grandmom for a cow for our birthdays?

 

I like that one.

Sissies, did you pick your cows?

 

I'm gonna go get my cow so nobody else takes it. Seeya next week!