Vander Linden Musings

Gerritt and Josh are back on the baseball field. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or cereal every night again! Makes dinner planning easy
They’re both loving it. Baseball is in their blood!

Jake will be playing on a FLAG football team instead of REAL football or fall baseball. Yes, his mother is a wimp! I’m worried about concussions with all the recent reports. He’s also practicing his basketball skills. He’s trying to keep his point guard position!

What would these boys do if I didn’t love sports??? OR what would I do if I didn’t love sports??? This is definitely a boy household.

I kept forgetting to upload pics…so the blog waited.

Gerritt is now a fifth grader!!! Oh my goodness we’re getting old! He loves his teacher- though feared that she was mean! It was rumored that she was MEAN!

He even told Jake that Jake’s teacher is mean. Jake feels differently. He loves his 4th grade teacher!

Josh loves his 3rd grade teacher!

It’s a GREAT year!!!

Here are some pics from their first day of school:

We had our annual 1st day of school breakfast at McDonald’s, a day late. Dad was fasting to get blood taken on the Monday school started, and we thought it would be nice of us to let him eat with us Here’s a few pics of them at McD’s…

For my first day back at blogging…I’m going to write about feet! Kind of

Gerritt swore that when he was 10 he would be taller than his mother. Not gonna happen! He’s a bit less than 6 inches away However we put our feet together today…

Gerritt's is the barefoot...

His feet are now bigger than mine!!! I have size TEN women’s feet, so for my 5 foot 6 inch frame…I have big feet. If I have big feet, what can his be considered???

He may not reach my height this year, but his pride is immeasurable when it comes to his feet being larger

So- it’s flag football season.  All three of the boys are playing this year.  Gerritt on one team and Jake and Josh on another.

Gerritt’s team has won both of their games.  He’s been able to play quarterback, running back, and he’s done well blocking.  He scored a touchdown in his first game.

Jake and Josh’s team have also won both.  Jake has scored 2 touchdowns in each game.  He’s doing great.  Because Josh is younger, he plays on the line mostly.  He’s does very well blocking.

They all say they want tackle football next year.  I don’t know if Mom is ready for that.  Maybe Gerritt.  But don’t quote me- I’m a pushover.  If we find a league that allows all of them to play tackle football- I’m sure they’ll be doing it.

The boys invited friends over to have a last day of school get together.  We’ve decided it will be a tradition.  I decided after spending the afternoon with 6 boys, 8 and under, alone that it will be BJ’s tradition to ask off and participate in the last day of school party!

The boys had a water balloon fight which lasted 2 minutes (I took about 2 hours to get all those balloons filled while they were in school).  Since the water balloons didn’t last long we drove to Arctic Circle to eat some ice cream shakes.  The people who worked there didn’t look very happy when I walked in with 6 boys 8 and under!  Guess I should have tipped them.  Here’s a few pictures of the boys’ get together.

Josh was an all-star this year!  He loved every minute of it.  Here’s a couple of pictures of him at play…

Josh favored us with his singing while sleeping on the way to PA…

Josh was in an operetta the other day- they did “The Jungle Book.”  It was so cute.  Josh was a wolf- here’s proof of that!

He seemed to enjoy being up on stage.  Obviously doesn’t get that from his mother!!!

Yesterday our Cinco de Mayo baby turned 6!!!  And today Gerritt received his Wolf award in Scouts… Here’s some pictures

Happy Birthday Jakob Parker!!!