Play Ball!!

Saturday was Opening Day for the boys' Little League. It's a day long festival of baseball playing, with all the teams from tee-ball on up to majors playing on the fields at Eastridge High School.

Jonathan's game was scheduled for 11:30 and Matt's for 1:30. I was sure Matt's would be rained out, based on the forecast, but thankfully the rain held off. Unfortunately, Jon's game started an hour and 10 minutes late thanks to the high school's girls modified softball team, which had a 9am game that lasted until 12:15. I was able to catch the first inning and a half before I had to take Matt to his game, which was at the other end of the athletic fields. I did get to see his first at-bat and I'm told he made an awesome catch of a foul ball while he was playing catcher.


Matthew's game was everything you'd expect from the very first game of tee-ball with a bunch of 4 and 5 year olds. I can't say I see any future All-Stars out there yet, but the kids had a great time playing, and that's the whole point for us. It was fun to watch them try out what they've been learning in practice for the last month. They only played 2 innings, but that was plenty!

More pictures of the day can be found here. I should mention that Jonathan is on the Yankees (for the 3rd year in a row) and Matthew is on the Red Sox. Insert favorite rivalry joke here.

A Mother's Day Tribute from Jonathan

My moms name is Jen foster
Oh my mom is pretty
Teaches me about me
Hold me mom hold me
Each mom is cool
Rock on mom rock

~JON

On this date in…

1507 America got its name from German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, who first used the term on a world map to refer to the huge mass of land in the Western Hemisphere, in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

1859 Ground was broken for the Suez Canal.

1898 The United States declared war on Spain.

1901 New York became the first state to require automobile license plates.

1945 U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany.

1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.

1990 The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery.

2003 Georgia lawmakers voted to scrap the Dixie cross from the state's flag.

2007 Graceanne Michelle Foster was born, to the delight of her parents and two big brothers, and the world became a brighter place.

Graceanne shares her birthday with:
Edward R. Murrow, Meadowlark Lemon, Al Pacino, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Renee Zellweger, Talia Shire, Hank Azaria, Jane Clayson, Oliver Cromwell, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Guglielmo Marconi, and Ella Fitzgerald

Happy 2nd birthday my sweet baby girl!!

The Medium is the Message

I asked Matthew this morning if he would like to go to the zoo on
Saturday (we're planning to do this for Grace's birthday). He said no,
let's do something else. When I asked him why he didn't want to go to
the zoo, he said "because I can see the animals on TV."

A post

Argh...I got nuthin'.

Chocolate Cake!

I meant to post this last Friday, since I've been lax in coming up with Multimedia Fridays and because that's when we were talking about it at work, but I had a hard time finding a clip. Strangely, this bit is not on YouTube.

Anyway, in honor of a conversation had over bagels last Friday, here is a classic Bill Cosby routine from the 80s.

Bill Cosby Chocolate cake
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And so it was done

This Saturday, this:



Becomes this:



Our dishes can't wait.

Oh, and because at least one faithful blog reader felt it could be misconstrued, I feel I should point out that the challenge issued in my previous dishwasher-related post was meant to illustrate that the dishwasher was doing a lousy job of washing the dishes, not that Mike is incapable of discerning between clean and dirty glasses!