First Tball Game!

Ellie had her first t-ball game this past weekend. She got the first run of the season! Now, she was first at bat, all kids bat, all kids run the bases, there are no outs, we don't keep score and no one wins or looses, but hey...we can still be proud of her! Some of the high lights of the game were flower picking, potty breaks, running off the field for a snack (Ellie), the ball getting hit right to a kids glove and him not even noticing, chasing your own ball that you just hit off the tee into the outfield along with the players from the other team (my favorite of the day). And the kids favorite part...the cookies and juice at the end of the game! Fortunately, the other team was just as clueless as ours, and the kids just loved hearing their parents cheer for them from the sidelines. Again, mostly clueless and not really understanding why people were cheering for them, but loving it all the same! Yeah, Ellie!

Earrings

Ellie got her first pair of little old lady, costume jewelry, clip-on earrings from a yard sale today. She feels very grown up...

Crawfish Season!

When we decided to move to TX, one of the biggest things Tony was excited to introduce to me, was crawfish. My only experience with them prior to TX was the bruise on my thumb from getting pinched by one in a stream in NJ. Little did I know, they are a much anticipated delicacy every spring here in TX, Louisiana, and all the surrounding areas. They are, in fact, just like miniature lobsters. You pull the tails off and dip them in butter. How can you go wrong with anything dipped in butter. True connoisseurs of crawfish like to "suck the head" which is exactly what it sounds like...taking the otherwise discarded body and head and sucking juice and who knows what else out of there. I think people do that just to look tough. I stick to the tails. Anyway, just as he was excited to introduce them to me, he now has two new guinea pigs, his children. Remember, you can't go wrong with anything dipped in butter, so you add that to the fact that you get to eat them by hanging on them with hammers and it's a child meal made in heaven! They love them! Mind you, you don't really need hammers to eat crawfish, but Ellie fell in love with "bang bang crabs" in Maryland, and was looking for something else to put her plastic hammers to use on, and viola, we have one of their most fun, most messy meals!