AirExpo

Thursday night, Finn had his first session of his Peewee Sports Sampler. They worked on…T-Ball! Ha. When they were teaching the rudimentary stuff, I think Finn thought the coach was crazy. Like when they had to step up to “bat” but there wasn’t a ball on the tee and they weren’t holding bats, just practicing swinging! Ha! You should have seen his face. But he was a good sport and actually paid attention. But this one seems a lot more based on fun than Finn’s Tuesday t-ball, which is much more fundamentals/exercises/drills based. This week is the last session of his Tuesday t-ball. In addition to t-ball, they will practice soccer and football! And we know over half the kids from ECFE, so I think Finn liked being able to play with his friends (and by play, I mean draw in the dirt!). Should be fun. Oh, and Jim AND Lynn are going to be able to come with this week, so I won’t be so frazzled. Finn’s bad attitude when we got there and Korri’s incessant need to run away and climb on the playground equipment that is for the big kids pretty much did me in! Thankfully, Korri LOVES Sharon (Laena and Braeland are in this class) and eventually hung out with her, which I was beyond grateful for.

Saturday Finn and I went to the AirExpo in Eden Prairie with Stacey and Dillon (Jim didn’t want to go because it scared him!). Thank you aunt Kelsie for the tickets and ear phones! This was a first for both Finn and me and despite the ridiculously hot weather, we both had a blast!

Finn kept saying that each plane we saw was his favorite. And they had planes taking off and landing quite often, which he loved. They were giving helicopter rides, so he loved them as well. I honestly think that if it had been a little cooler, he would have stayed all day and not gotten bored at all. I think I took a thousand pictures because everything was so neat (more are on our pic website, link to the right). Have I mentioned lately how much I LOVE my camera?!?!

Dillon and Finn are so great together. Dillon likes to show things to Finn and Finn takes his lead from Dillon’s behavior, which is always impeccable and polite. I’m thinking of going next year even if we don’t get free tickets!

They had several military planes there, obviously, and they did a few formations, which was really cool. While we were at the AirExpo, Jim and Korri had a daddy/daughter day at the Mall of America! Jim is so ambitious. He said they just walked around and Korri loved it, especially the dip-n-dots, of course. I don’t know if I’ve ever had Finn and Jim’s had Korri like that before. I liked the one-on-one time a lot.

Finn woke up from his nap kind of crabby (I think we both got a little cooked at the AirExpo), so to get him out of his funk, we decided to go to El Loro for an early dinner…always a cure for a bad mood or well…anything! It was Korri this time that was drinking the salsa from the bowl and she actually didn’t make a huge mess of herself or the restaurant this time, shocker!

Zander turned ONE yesterday! I’ll post about that tomorrow, so it isn’t 10 pages long.