At the baseball game

Hi everyone on the internet!
We are getting ready to come west for most of the summer.  We leave in about 3 weeks, and we're feeling pretty busy around here.  Kids are finishing up their school year things--classes are ending, most with some sort of recital or class party at the end.  I'm also coming up on my renewal for my engineering license, so I've been cramming my 30 professional development hours.  Trying to do it on the cheap, and of course I waited until there was barely enough time.  Some of what I've been using is boring and dull, but I've found myself having a lot of fun with some of it.  Like trying to solve big complicated math problems on a quiz--I'm kind of a nerd that way.  :)
Brett's away this weekend, hiking an 80-mile section of the Appalachian Trail, and we have dear Portland friends visiting until Wednesday.  They just got here tonight, and we only really had the getting ready to go to bed time together so far.  But I'm already glad they are here, because it motivated us to go through shelves and piles and clean and organize a bunch of stuff.  I love it when I make time to do that.  Our place feels so much lighter and tidier.  Two of my kids have had colds this week, and I refuse to believe it's because we watched that damned Yankees game in the rain on Monday.   
It's getting pretty warm, the fountains were turned on in the park we were in on Friday--oh my, you should have seen the sheer joy on the faces of the 4 boys I had with me at the time--took me right back to when you're a kid and you have that first inkling that summer is really on it's way.  They stripped down pretty quickly (except for one who ran through completely clothed--you should have seen the wet and sandy mess he was when I handed him over to his mom), and it was a fabulous kick off to the holiday weekend.
Here are some pictures from Jonah's baseball game last week.

We love going to Jonah's baseball games this season.  First of all the games are at a lovely section of Riverside Park--we know a lot of people by now both on our team and the ones we play.  Simon has a friend there he usually plays with in the sand and rocks, and sometimes Maya has one too.  This is the first Kid-Pitch season, and it's so exciting to watch the little guys throw their own pitches.  They look so grown up!  All of Jonah's games are at 8:30 in the morning, and it has been already tank top weather that early the past few games. 
Funny thing about New York City--the more you do, the more it feels like a small town.  I love that we walk so much and run into people we know.  We've been in a groove the past few months--it feels like a great balance with activities and home time, while everyone gets to do things on their own that they love to do.