Walking to school & running the bases

Rachel and I started our day by "walking" to school.  Since we don't live very close to school we parked a couple blocks away and walked to school from there.  Rachel was very excited!  I explained to her that I used to walk to school a lot.  Told her that my sister and I would go to the neighbor's house in the morning because my Mom and Dad both worked.  Then we'd watch the Bozo Show until it was time to leave for school.  Then we'd walk to school.  Told her we had kind of a long walk... but, it was fun.  Brought back memories for me of the Bozo Show... the Grand Prize Game, Cookie - "wait just a minute!'... I'm sure this brings back memories for some other people reading this, too... mostly my sister! : )

Eli and I played what we do almost every day... baseball.  He loves playing!  He's signed up for tee-ball this Summer and I am actually nervous for him.  He is great at hitting an under hand pitch, but hitting off a tee is much different.  Hope he adjusts okay.  He loves baseball!  I felt terrible... he was pitching to me (we use tennis balls when I'm hitting-thankfully) and I hit the ball right at him.  Hit him in the arm and then bounced up to his face.  He cried, but I made him throw some more pitches to me before we could stop playing.  Took a lot of convincing, but I didn't want him to be afraid to pitch after that incident.

I went through some old stuff too - working to declutter as much as I can!  Ran across some old notes from me to Mike, which made me smile and also the Save the Date for Sheri's wedding.  That brought back some memories.  Had no idea I still had that. : )

When Eli, Kate and I picked up Rachel from school we parked a couple blocks away, so Rachel could "walk" home from school, too.  We passed a baseball diamond on the way and the bases were out, so I thought it would be fun for Eli to run the bases on a real diamond.  He was so excited!!  Here is a video of his first two times running the bases on a real diamond.

The kids also played some golf with Dad in the afternoon.  Here are a couple short video clips of their lesson.

A very fun day!  The plan for today is to work on packing some more... wish me luck!!! : )