Swing batter!

We had another great season of t-ball this spring, this time with our former soccer coaches and good friends, Ramie and Adam.  Anna learned SO much about t-ball, and had a fabulous time!  Now I just need to convince Ramie to coach Anna's softball teams even after her son has gone on to play Little League.

 Quite the big hitter this year.  Or, at least big swinger...

 Let's all be honest.  Playing with your friends in the dirt is at least as fun as actually playing t-ball.  At least.

 Our little first base-woman!

 Kate loved the whole experience too!  I think she's chomping at the bit for when she can play too!

Slide pile!

A little bit of culture...

One of my favorite "special events" at the girls' school is Multicultural Day.  Each room is a "country", and the families bring in food, decorations, activities, etc., from that country.  This year both of the girls had fun, pretty easy countries...Anna's class was Mexico, and Kate's was Japan.

I couldn't resist making these "tortilla chip" cookies for Anna's class.  They're actually lemon poppyseed cookies!  Yum!  I was going through a bit of a panic thinking that I might not be able to make little homemade goodies for her once she started kindergarten (I guess every school has their own rules), but WHEW--disaster averted...I can indeed still bring homemade goodies to school for her and her little buddies!  These were a hit...might have to make a repeat performance in kindergarten...

This picture doesn't really belong in this set, other than to explain the general "blueness" of Kate in the subsequent pictures.  It was snowcone day with her playgroup prior to Multicultural Day!

My little Japanese doll...

The sweetest sisters...

Enjoying an Italian flag cookie.  Italy always seems to be one of the most popular rooms with the girls.  Who can blame them?

Some candy "sushi"...

Playing with the Matroshka dolls in "Russia".  This was one of the coolest rooms.  The girls have quite a few Russian kids that go to school with them, so a group of them did some authentic Russian dancing.  Beautiful.

A beautiful day at Hermann Park...

We had the MOST fun day at Hermann Park earlier this spring!  I think the reality of Anna starting kindergarten in the fall was really starting to hit me, so we made our best effort to squeeze as much fun as humanly possible into this day!  We were lucky enough to have my good friend Melanie and her sweet girls Julia and Jocelyn (our adventure buddies!) join us!  We started with a train ride from the zoo to the play area...

The play area was a hit with all of the girls!

Kate was quite adventurous, see-sawing...

 ...doing the rings with Ms. Melanie...

 ...and sliding, sliding, sliding!

Anna also enjoyed trying out some of her new gymnastics skills.

We fed the ducks...

...and, the pigeons...

We really were meaning to feed the ducks.  Really.

SUCH an amazingly fun day with my sweet girls!

We were having such a great day, and feeling so adventurous, that we decided to take a boat ride!

The girls' first paddleboat trip...

We were sad that Melanie and her girls didn't join us on the paddleboat, but sure appreciated having our own personal photographer dockside!

The boat ride?  Success!  The girls are still talking about it...

Happy ladies...