T-ball, Green Valley and so much more...

J.R. joined his first team last week, his first t-ball team. We practice twice a week and will have some games coming up in October! Here's some pictures of his first few practices! I know I'm biased but he's pretty good!

J.R.'s first team huddle

We have been doing lots of things, never a dull moment in the Zaino household! We've been playing hockey at the ice rink.

Having lunch after a hard hockey practice with daddy!

We spent one day at the strip with Sandi going to the M&M store, Rainforest Cafe and of course J.R.'s most exciting thing meeting Woody and Buzz!

We went to Springs Preserve and played with Audrey. We had lunch and looked at bugs! We even got to release some lady bugs!

We just got back from grandpa's house in Green Valley AZ.  We had a fun weekend playing hockey, baseball and golf. Grandpa got some left handed golf clubs cut down so J.R. could have "real" clubs!

Here are some more pictures of J.R. that I'd like to share... it's nonstop over here!

Auntie Lori sent J.R. a HUGE sticker book of his favorite guy.. Sponge Bob!

I baked a cake for the first day of football.

J.R. and mommy went shopping for SHOES! J.R. was so excited for his new shoes.

Relaxing at home.

Enjoying the nice weather here in Vegas.. finally!

Laying in bed with daddy watching Sponge bob.

Riding go karts with daddy after batting practice at the batting cages.

I have missed so much.

I can't tell you how many times the over the last few months I've thought to myself.. I need blog this about what J.R. was doing or saying and of course now I have forgotten, just my luck!

We have been super busy the last few months. We went to California with Nana, Papa and Auntie Lori at the end of August. We had so much fun! We went to Disneyland and stayed close to Huntington Beach. We went to 3 baseball games. We  have adopted the Angels as our favorite team now.. reason being J.R. got 2 balls thrown to him from the field. One ball was thrown to him by a player while he was running into the dugout. I should elaborate.. It was thrown to Tony, Tony missed it and Papa saved the day and caught the ball. If you ask J.R. he will tell you he caught it be we all know the real story!

Here are some pictures of from our vacation.

Friends

This past weekend J.R. and I met with Kendra and Audrey at the Springs Preserve for a play date. I have known Kendra since we've been in Vegas and luckily we got pregnant around the same time. Audrey was born exactly 2 months to the day before J.R.

Needless to say they've been playing together since birth. I realized this weekend that I take for granted the special relationship between J.R. and Audrey. J.R. gets so excited when I tell him we have a play date with Audrey. I can't tell him until the day of the play date otherwise he'll tell me nonstop that he wants to see Audrey. They have done so many fun things together over the last 2 years. J.R. follows Audrey around like a puppy dog, it's so adorable.

Another little girl and her mother joined us for our play date at the Springs Preserve. We kept having to push J.R. and Audrey to include their new friend. I think J.R. and Audrey have their own language. They play so well together, it's effortless. We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends, both J.R. and myself. It's exciting to think J.R. and Audrey could very easily be life long friends.

Here's some pictures of their fun time together last weekend.

It's been a long time...

I have been so busy, probably the busiest I have ever been. Work has been consuming my all my time. I take every day from 5pm to 8pm off to spend with J.R. but after he goes to bed around 8pm I'm back to work ... this too shall pass!

J.R. has been such a good boy. He's growing up so fast. I've missed posting for a few week so I've missed noteing the adorable conversations we've been having.

A few weeks ago he had a kickball tournament at school. My grandpa was in town so J.R. had a huge audience (Tony, Grandpa, Scott and myself). It turned out to be more of a soccer game with tackling. J.R. has a favorite friend as school Gavril. Watching them play was adorable, you can see how much they enjoy each other.

We had 2 birthday parties this last weekend, 2 girls from J.R.'s school. We played putt putt golf and went to a park and had snow cones, cotton candy and played in a jump house. It was great to see J.R. interact with all his classmates. You can see who his favorites are... J.R. is definitely not a wall flower..  he's in the middle of everything and everyone!

Here are some pictures over the last few weeks!