Airplanes, Easter, and Gang Signs.

Found the cord. It was in my safe place, that I couldn't remember, thus making it unsafe. It's a viscous cycle. Anyhoo, I'm going to continue with the picture story gig.

On a "cold", windy Saturday we drove down to the "Big City" and went to the Museum of Flight. The boys were in AWE from the moment we drove into the parking lot. Luckily we got the worst spot in the whole lot so we were able to walk by every outdoor static display they had.

I just like this one of my menfolk, it's cute.

That would be Thatcher's "Shit Eating" Grin. This is possibly the happiest I've seen him, except for Disneyland.

Cooper's like "You're kidding me, that's real? B.S." 

Captain Yarsley in a cockpit.

There were airplane displays hanging from the ceiling. Harps was intrigued.

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Coopie can always con his Auntie B into holding him :) I love dragging her on our adventures.

A fore mentioned hanging airplane displays.

Little Jonathan playing with the Bernoulli's Principle display. He was mad he couldn't get enough wind speed to really make it fly. Nerd Alert.

Face cut outs are awesome.

Someone did not want to go to Infinity or Beyond.

Thatch didn't know what I made him put his face into. Then he was like...

...Woa, I'm an astronaut.

There's a park about a 1/2 mile away from the house so we go there sometimes after school. There's a creek that runs through it so Cooper enjoys trying to flail himself into it. Only God knows what kind of amoebas and parasites live in it but I let him play in it none the less. Harps sticks to the swings and Thatch to the equipment. Rule followers...I like that.

Taking pictures while kids are swinging is hard. I was kicked a few times.

But sometimes you catch some really good shots :)

Action shots rule.

Monkey Bars. Totally get where the name comes from.

This is seriously a steep slide.

On rainy days there are a lot of indoor places for the kiddos to run around at. Bellingham is impressively focused on activities for the littles to do, rain or shine. I personally don't enjoy being in the rain as much as watching it from under a blanket so we went to an indoor park to play on this particular day. Harper crawled around the whole place and gave the floor a good mopping with her pants. Yay, more laundry stains to fight. 

Pretty sure she licked every toy they had there.

Trying to keep up with Cooper. He didn't run her over, thank heavens, but it will happen soon. <---Mother's instinct.

She has super expressions. I love them.

I'm fairly confident here she's telling me to "Put the damn camera down Mom".

And here she's saying "Well, if you're going to take pictures, here's my good side."

We signed the boys up for the YMCA's Rookie league baseball. Jonathan took them to their first practice while I stayed home and cleaned the house getting ready for Grammy and Grandpa's arrival! Teamwork!

How awesome is this going to be on ESPN when they do his player profile in 18 years?

He wanted to wear his baseball sweatshirt. He's actually pretty good at Baseball, as opposed to Soccer.

Ready position. Making his Mommy proud.

And then the Grandparents and the Aunties arrived and we had Easter the next day! Auntie Ash's plane was 2+ hours late making Jonathan and I come home at 1am, so we didn't hide the eggs until the afternoon. Made for good lighting I guess.

This Cooper's "LET'S DO THIS" face.

Grammy helping Harper find her eggs. Thatcher's eggs were blue, Cooper's were green and Harper's were pink. Her's were the easiest to hide, because I basically just rolled them in a pile in the middle of the grass.

And each monkey got a golden egg. Big stuff in there...$20! Dang Easter Bunny MeeMaw!

Thatch's game face. 

Harper found out the eggs had stuff in them...

...and was like, "This is candy? Winning!"

Sorting out the goods.

Still shocked that I let her have candy.

Giving me the eye, she probably thought I was coming to take it away.

And this is what Easter looks like when there isnt' snow. Crazy.

So we drove to Seattle to do a little shopping and I found these gems on my camera after the upload.

So cute :) She's such a good influence.

And then I see that she's teaching them how to throw gang signs. Those Yarsleys and their bad influences.

Luckily Coop could only manage the pincer grasp and Thatch was doing what ever it is that means. 

So Saturday was the big day...first Baseball Games! Yay!!!

The big guy, up to bat in the #4 position. There were only four players that showed up though, so he's not really the clean up hitter.

A parent plays with the kiddo in the 3 year old division. Jonathan clearly takes his job seriously.

My Cooper diving for the ball to throw that little kid out at first. Really, Cooper picked up the ball and ran it back to the bucket. The kid was safe. Boring.

Good to know it's not just our kid.

He hit the ball. That's a start! Next step, is to get it to go on the other side of the plate :)

And now you are caught up with the going ons of we Yarsleys. I'll try to keep more with the blog. I just went to Ikea today so I'll update you on how Jonathan handles the unloading of the car :)

XOXO
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