Soccer mom, sneaky baby & Gleamin' Booty!

All I heard about for about a week from Lexi was "Gleamin' Booty"! At first, it was rather alarming coming out of her mouth, but then I soon realized her class was studying pirates all week. It made a little more sense then, although I'm still a little confused WHY they were studying pirates to begin with. Anyway here's our little pirate with all the accessories, we're so proud! AARRRGH!!!

Now that Colton is quite mobile he quickly gets himself into all these random lil' cubbies all over the house. Here's a just a couple I found him in.

Here's Colton at his 11-month mark, standing for a few seconds longer now and gradually sitting down by himself.

Colton practicing his stair-climbing skills at 11 months. He's no master yet (as my friend Rochelle found out), but he's getting there.

I caught him in mid-blink and I just thought he looked funny, like he's about to pass out.

OK, so like I mentioned before I've graduated into "Soccer Mom" status now with both Tyler and Lexi playing. It's really fun because they're on the same team which won't happen again I'm sure. This is them warming up before their first game. They missed all 6 practices before this due to weather or us being out of town, so I was quite anxious to see how they'd do being thrown into a game right away and never having played. They had lots of fun!

That's Tyler in front of the coach, you can often find him following her like a lost puppy. It's interesting, we thought Tyler would be rather aggressive with playing and a bit of a natural because he's always been pretty physically coordinated, and we thought Lexi might be a little more hesitant and maybe struggle a bit. We now see it's totally the opposite, Lexi is one of the stars of the team and is quite aggressive, always getting in there with the other team and trying to steal the ball. Tyler tries to listen really well to the coah, but is a little confused and a bit hesitant. They're both having a blast though.
I'll have to get some more video of their games because they are truly out of America's funniest videos. There are a few kids on their team that have a whole LOTTA energy and a have a hard time focusing, let's say..... They'll kick the ball out of bounds and just keep going like Forrest Gump. The coach tries to run them down and the kid is 3 fields over at this point, ziggin' and zaggin' all over the place. The coach is sooo much fun and great with kids, so the kid keeps running, thinking the coah is playing tag with them. Anyway, it's more for the experience obviously and not too high-pressure. Nate used to be a soccer star when he was a kid, so he truly enjoys watching them play and seeing their potential. He does have a hard time keeping silent on the sidelines though, as do I. We'll get used to it!