Day at the Beach

Hitch Hiker

In June, on our way to Utah, we stopped at Arby's and found this little hitch hiker on the curb.
He decided to turn on the charm so we decided to pick him up and take him with us. Turns out he's an OK guy to keep around.

Kindergarten Graduation

I know everybody thinks their kids grow up too fast but it's because it is true. On June 17 P.J. graduated from kindergarten and I can't believe the big milestone of kindergarten has come and gone. (insert sniff)
This was a great graduation because it was only about 30 minutes. They sang two songs, received their certificates and medals and all was done.

Mrs. Acton was a great teacher, she was just too old and too tired to keep up with all of the 30 kids in P.J.'s class. P.J. felt as though he was bored all the time because all the "naughty" kids took up all of Mr. Acton's time.

P.J. love making new friends in his class and looks forward to all day school because he really wants to eat lunch in the cafeteria. Go figure, the most lame part of school.

All Grown Up!

The other day P.J. and Henry went to a friends house to play leaving Will and I home alone. I decided that instead of taking a nap I should probably do something productive and clean the kitchen. So I was cleaning the kitchen and I let William play outside. While he was playing I was thinking to myself that when P.J. or even Henry was 14 months old I would have never let them play outside by themselves and how funny it is how your perspective changes after you have a few kids. I looked outside to check on Will and this is what I found, he grabbed Henry's helmet put it on (backwards, but hey he 14 months old), and was riding his bike. Too funny, what a big boy.

Just another day at the Norseth's

I don't' know if anyone can remember, but when we first moved to New Hampshire and a while after I could not keep P.J.'s pants on. Well Henry is following suit.
The other day all the boys were outside and this is what I look out to find. Good thing he decided to put on those elbow and knee pads, just forgot a little something else.

Of course P.J. could not be left out of the picture taking so I hope everyone enjoys the 6 year old riding a tricycle.

Last Game of the Season

When it was about the middle of the season I thought this day would never come, but as I was sitting there watching P.J. in the last game it was kind of sad. He was just starting to get it and was getting fairly good, for a 6 year old with no attention span.
Mr. Drool Mouth was happy to just be outside and not in the stroller.

Henry, well Henry is just Henry.

P.J got a little tired and hot here so he decided to sit down and take a break, maybe the should start doing that in the major leagues.

Will is obsessed with hats, hats of any kind, so whenever one of the kids would take off their helmet it went right onto his head. As I am typing this I just realized that this was not a good idea to let him do this because of lice, oh well we were lucky with that one.

After P.J. went to a Giants game and watched a few other baseball games on t.v. he thought he was a pro at hitting the ball.

He even made it to first base most every time.

Playing first base gets a lot of action in tee ball, he looks pretty baseball ready.

My cute blue-eyed boys on a hot baseball afternoon.

Livin' the Life

The other day while I was mopping the floor I sent the boys outside to play. (I love having a back yard, little as it may be.) They played for quite some time, taking turns riding the bikes, William would push P.J. on the little trike and P.J. would give Will a ride. They had so much fun.
After a while they got hungry so I whipped up some PB&J, gave them some milk in their water bottles and back out they went. Now I didn't give the baby anything to eat so you can understand my shock when I looked outside and he was chewing on a sandwich. I asked the boys if either of them had given it to him and they both said no, he had reached up onto the table and got it himself. I guess he was hungry. After a couple of minutes he didn't think it was very fair that the older boys had cool camping chairs to sit on and he didn't. He really did let me know it too so we did some rearranging and tuh duh, he had his own chair, he thought he was really cool.

The whole time they were out there P.J. kept saying "Livin' the Life" like this was some kind of resort or vacation. It's good to know that it doesn't take much to make your kids think they live in the lap of luxury.

Sewing Project

I cannot say that I am a master sewer by any means but I was pretty proud of my accomplishment. I have been wanting to do this project for a few months now since I have all this material left over from the boys quilts, so when I had a night with nothing to do I took advantage. Henry was my helper, he lifted the foot and put the foot down on the sewing machine for me and he really thought he was helping big time.

I know there are a couple of thing that don't' look quite right but this is how they are going to stay.

My baseball boys!

No, Pete and Henry are not drunk, at least I don't think so. Last weekend Pete took P.J. to a Giants game, it was a very exciting thing for P.J. since he was going alone with his Daddy, riding the BART into the city and being able to eat hot dogs, peanuts and churros to his desire. Since they were playing the Cardinals, and that happens to be Pete's team, we had to make a run to the mall to buy hats. P.J. and Henry decided they wanted to cheer for the Giants which I think is great, root root root for the home team. Henry stayed home with Mom and we did a sewing project (see next post), which luckily for me he thought was just a grand time. Giants won that night by the way.

Earth Week

I know it was Earth Week last week, and I did actually take these pictures last week. I just wanted to show off my little bit of earth that I have planted and managed to keep alive. Our tomatoes are getting huge and have flowered already so I am way excited for the fruit.
One of my little garden helpers, although William doesn't help as much as his brothers do he does love to eat that dirt. And yes, I still have those ugly curtains so shoot me.

This is our favorite as of late. We love checking on the strawberries almost everyday to see if any are ready. we thought one was close and ate it, turns out it wasn't quite ready. Along with the tomatoes and strawberries we have three different kinds of peppers, spinach, carrots, two Asian pear trees and Henry's three sunflowers that he got from school. Bring on the harvest.