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T-Ball and Summer Fun

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Robert

Levi has been playing t-ball this year in League City. Here he is heading home with his buddy Stephen behind him.

Here is his team, the Texans, with their coach.

Practice.

More practice.

Lining up to throw the ball into the target.

Batting practice.

In the dugout.

Team meet after the game.

Team banner.

On the field for a game.

Fielding.

My father’s day cookie cake.

Levi at bat.

On base.

Random shot of Levi drinking at a wedding. I assume Kendra will talk about the wedding more if she ever posts. I just though the shot was funny, it was sparkling grape juice, but there was also wine. At a nearby table the mom kept getting suspicious that her kids had the wrong type.

Fielding again.

Ready to run bases again.

After the game.

Fourth of July fun.

Watching the fireworks.

In the dugout again.

Levi and his fancy new bat.

Posted in Baseball, Levi, summer, t-ball

Water Play

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Robert

Playing in the water in Texas during the summer is always fun. When its as hot as it gets here for as long as it gets that way its the only way to be outside sometimes.

Here’s Levi playing in his little pool using a foam bat to splash in the water.

He enjoyed himself.

A lot.

We also took a slide from another pool and put it on this one.

Shoveling some water.

Playing with my old super soaker water gun. That’s an old water gun.

Playing with a new sprinkler toy.

Playing with a sprinkler back when we were still allowed to water. After over 100 days of no rain we had quite a drought. Recently its started raining again thankfully.

Playing in the neighbor’s pool.

Shot with our water camera. Levi has started diving his head under the water some, which is good to see.

Jumping into the water with Paw Paw.

Will and Nathaniel in the pool.

Reagan swimming with her floaties.

Brooklyn doing the same.

Levi jumping in the water with Paw Paw and Nathaniel hanging out in the water with Will.

Posted in Levi, swimming

Swimming

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Robert

Last year we didn’t do a lot of swimming with Levi, even though the year before we had taken him to swim lessons. This year we’re regretting it, as he isn’t doing as well transitioning to the water.

We’re getting him back used to it, but he goes crazy when you try to get him to float on his back or be more on his own.

He has started jumping off the side of the pool pretty well.

By the end of the day he was even going under a little after he jumped and not freaking out.

We’ll just have to keep going and I’m sure he’ll get there.

Kicking!

He is getting better about the kicking, not as much on the paddling with his hands.

Levi taking a break with Granddaddy.

Jump!

Jumping in the deep end with me.

Group shot

Different lighting

Getting tossed into the air. He loved that.

At first he expected to hold our hands when he jumped. Now he will do it on his own.

Now some videos.

All of these shots were taken with our new Kodak Playshoot Zx3 camera. Its waterproof and works really well. I wish we’d had this when we went on our cruise. We were supposed to go on another cruise this summer, but the plans got mixed up, so that’s out. We’ll just have to find other ways to use it, like playing in the water closer to home.

Also, for anyone who wants pictures to print out you’ll just have to wait. I don’t upload the pictures to Walgreens immediately and calling to ask for it won’t speed up the process.

Posted in Levi, swimming, videos, water camera

Easter

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Robert

We went over to our friend’s house to celebrate Easter a little early. We painted eggs and had a lot of fun.

There were different styles in the painting. Gus was more of a dunk using your hands and get dyed in the process kind of guy.

Evey was delegating and Levi was getting distracted a lot.

Tom was the designated egg holder.

Some finished products.

Some mess.

The day before Easter we had a little egg hunt at our house with Kendra’s dad and step mother. We started at our house and then went to a hunt at a nearby church.

Here’s Levi checking out a gift he got.

Its a bunch of toy frogs and a carrier for them.

Also a slip and slide.

When hunting he kept opening each egg and inspecting the contents.

Some got hidden in out of the way places.

The new toy has been very popular.

And he had a lot of fun at the egg hunt.

Plus a little time on the playground afterwards.

And some face painting as well.

A dinosaur!

And a picture with the Easter bunny.

Later there was some time for a little bit of baseball.

Levi loves playing baseball.

A hit!

Sitting with Nana and Paw Paw.

Levi’s basket from us.

Hunting at Mimi and Granddaddy’s house on Easter.

Trying out some of the treats.

Playing a little croquet.

Granddaddy and Mimi with Levi.

Grandpa and Sandra with Levi. Grandpa and Grandma got Levi a sword and shield for Easter. Its been taking away a few times, but he has started doing better with it.