The Zhao Family

Spring is definitely here because baseball season has started and this year eventhough we signed him up late. He's having a lot of fun at practice (one) and his first game was pretty good too.



While Brennan's out in the field, Clayton was really good with Cayleigh watching their brother play under the tree.


There goes the fly ball!


Run for your life..but hold on to the helmet and make it safe to 1st base.


Around the 2nd...he's heading home!


Made it home safe! (Actually since he's in T-ball, everyone makes it home safe)


Here's Brennan's team line up..


Here's some photos of him in the out field.


Look at the glove work involve


I love T-ball; regardless of what team you're in, everyone still fights to get the ball.









I love Clayton's Lightning McQueen's undies...that's my boy!


Brennan's baseball card. His brand spanking new uniform with the hat, socks, and gloves! Looks very serious!

I'll post some of the videos soon, but for right now enjoy the photos!

This past weekend, we had an Easter Egg hunt at church. It was lots of fun! and all the kids enjoyed the program. They get a chance to dye the eggs, decorate them, make cool colors, and managed to get a few cracked eggs all while the adults were placing the eggs all over the Primary and Nursery rooms full of eggs everywhere for the young kids to find! You can see the pictures here.

I don't think I've ever recorded Clayton saying his bedtime prayer. Also with trying a new camera, it's a good chance to see how he does. (The prayer is in Chinese) Thanks to Youtube's software, I was able to caption some of the conversation. Quite nice.

He's looking good in that baseball hat.


Just a little tutoring from the coach where to hit the ball...


Just like that...






Minor adjustments by the coach...














Here is Brennan's first official baseball practice at T-Ball, with a little guidance by the coach. I think he did really well overall for a first timer.

It's official! The baseball season has started and we joined Brennan on a team!-The New York Mets (T-Ball). To get started, we get them right them into training. We weren't really going to get him in the field to train him but fortunately we got some help from people that love to play with him.


Thankfully we have a middle school in our backyard that we can use anytime. When I took the boys the field, there were plenty of assistance to help pitch, catch, and coach. Clayton here has no troubles getting help from the ladies at the park.


We need to teach our sons not to get chased by girls.


He's rounding his bases after a home run!


They look so handsome lining up and waiting at the bleachers.


Batter up!


He actually hit the ball!!


He used his whole body weight to put all this strength to get that ball out of the park!


The eye-hand coordination is getting him pretty well prepared for the team.


He's running!!


Making it to home base!! yeah!

Next agenda: Work on catches

It's been almost three months since Cayleigh joined us in this world. She's progressing quickly and obviously she's getting fed well too. Right now she's coo-ing and smiling a lot along with doing a few things we think might be questionable at this stage in her life...



Look!! Before she can talk, crawl, and walk, Cayleigh's taking photos of herself already!! What ever happen to early stages of development? I guess with technology, things progress a little faster than we expected.



She seems to enjoy it quite a bit too!


Definitely!



Those innocent big eyes....just want to hug and kiss her all over.


She's thinking of next move...scary hey?

Oh it was a great day to see the Cherry Blossoms. I took a day off from work to take everyone down to DC. The sun was out, the sky was blue, a slight breeze and the temperature hovered around 65ish-70. There was music and just enough people to enjoy the sights all around the Jefferson memorial basin. Just a great day!



First stop to see the Cherry Blossom was the Jefferson Memorial where a live band was playing some rock music. It was so beautiful that time of the day, we busted out our cooler and Abbey's kitchen was opened for business serving some mean roast beef sandwiches, chicken wings, yummy veggies, and delicious soy sauce eggs-just delicious!!


Made to order food on the basin! Our personal cater: Chef Abbey!! Oh the food was so good!


The Kaneyuki's met us on the mall and we had a blast!! So to make it official, we took pictures of us together. And the boys were so cooperative that only Michelle is looking at the camera.


We even brought bubbles too in case they get bored! It was just great!


It's cool to see a policeman on a horse at the basin.


One of the many great attractions for the boys was the park ranger on the horse. They loved the policeman sitting up high on the horse and wanting to pet the horse but was not allowed. So you see Clayton's reaction to that comment and Brennan looks so mature.


Caught red handed!! I don't think Clayton took the flowers off the tree, he just touched them ;)


Some cooperation of the boys with mom..it was really nice.


I am not sure why they had a beaver mascot at the Cherry Blossom, maybe because they want people to be aware that there are lots of beavers around the basin chewing up trees. But on the funnier note, you noticed the stroller on the lower right of the photo? --well that's because Brennan fell off the stroller. He was sitting on top of the stroller (see below where Clayton's sitting) and because of Brennan's weight, the stroller became top heavy. No worries, he fell feet first, nothing happened hence we've decided that it's more weight distributed if Clayton sits on the very top.



Brennan's already made some friends and playing ball with them while the three of them enjoyed each other's company.


I think this is a great photo.


We've got some photo so mama and Cayleigh at the Cherry Blossoms! yeah


Here's our kid-mobile trailer. Just bare shy of a refrigerator, oven, and a dining table, we've managed a way to sit all three kids, fit two grocery bags full of food, a cooler with more food inside, hang a backpack, and three jackets all into a double stroller. We've definitely become part of the sight-seeing attraction.


We decided to be brave and walked all the around the basin, it was a lot longer than it looked. So in order to save Abbey's back, our double stroller became a 3 person vehicle! But we did manage to get some nice photos from the other side of the basin.



After a four hour walk around the basin to see the Cherry Blossoms, I decided to take the boys to Gravelly Park next to the DC airport for them to see the planes really close just right before they land. I thought it would be a fun experience but they boys complained they it was too loud!!

After seeing the plane, the Kaneyuki's invited us to their home to play with the boys and treated us to a pizza dinner! Thank you Kaneyuki family!!