Random Pictures from Eric's Phone

Here is a random phone dump from the past few months.

Alex was in basketball this past winter.  It was fun to watch this age. His team did improve a lot but finished the season 0-8.  Alex was quite the ball hog and would dribble all the way down the court and just dribble around until he had a shot - even if that shot was from waaayyy far away ;).  He did well and could make it in the basket and scored every game, which was a pretty big feat for this age group!

I took Alex skiing over Christmas Break.  We had planned on snowboarding, but they didn't have any more to rent, so skiing it was.  It was a lot harder than Alex expected, he didn't love not feeling in control and not being able to do it well right away.  I was sweating even though it was 10 degrees trying to assist him.  I told him if we rented skis he had to go at least 10 times... so 10 times it was ;). 

Sledding with Cousins....

 

A special Daddy/Alex night.  Eric got them tickets to motorcross at the Van Andel Arena.  First it was BWW for dinner, Alex's favorite restaurant.

 

Spring Update - 2

It all started innocently enough with the boys wanting to plant some flowers.....

 We were excited to discover a great nature trail just a couple of miles down the street.  Here are some pictures from a Sunday afternoon walk with Grammy....
 

 Alex had a field trip to the Calvin College Nature Preserve.  He loved it - he was happy to look under logs for salamanders and bugs, touch the slime in the pond, etc.

Spring Update Part 1

Soooooooo behind on the blog....I will chip away at catching up as I can.

We went on a field trip with Alex's Kindergarten class in March.  We went to the FM Botanical Gardens and Brodie was allowed to go along as well.

Helping Daddy do a little landscaping:

We took the boys on a day trip to the Kalamazoo Air Zoo.  The boys loved it.  Brodie's favorite part by far was sitting in the cockpit.  He was thrilled with all the buttons and gadgets.

Alex loved going in the simulator with Eric.  That simulator was flipping everywhere and he wasn't phased a bit.  

 Brodie did not want to go on any rides.  They were all "too fast" or "too scary" looking to him.  We forced him on a few small ones and he ended up loving them and riding them over and over.

Our next big event was putting in a basket ball hoop.  Eric and his brother clocked several hours on this baby.

And here are a couple of pics that pretty much summarizes our boys and their differences ;)