Batter Up!

Madelynne was absolutely thrilled when her Daddy bought her a baseball bat and ball! That they came in pink was purely a bonus! Madelynne could not wait to go outside and play baseball with Daddy and much to our surprise she is actually a really good hitter (she didn't get that coordination from me). Grampa Borgersen would be so proud!

Madelynne loves her Daddy just a little bit...

Madelynne's biggest fan. My brown eyed handsome man.

Grampa Babycakes Comes to Cleveland

Madelynne calls Matt's Dad "Grampa Babycakes". This started when grampa started calling her his Babycakes. Soon after she started calling Matt's parents Grammie and Grampa Babycakes. I love endearments!

During Ron's visit we were able to visit the Bronze Statue Exhibit at Historic Kirtland and attend a baseball game. Matt's family loves baseball and Matt is passing that love onto his children. Madelynne has been talking all winter about going to baseball when the weather gets warm. A few weeks back Matt purchased a baseball glove for Madelynne. I stumbled across this one night when getting ready to put Madelynne to bed. You never know what she will come up with next! This is what Madelynne prefers to catch in her baseball glove-marshmallows. (It is hard to tell in the picture, but the marshmallows are pastel bunnies.)


As we were trying to find our seats at the baseball game Madelynne started crying. She said,"No! I can't sit here. I have to go down there!" She thought since she had her own baseball glove she got to go down on the field and play with "her guys". I adore how her little brain works. Precious!

Madelynne loved having Grampa here and was totally spoiled by him when he bought her two Disney princess shirts from the Disney store. (Something Mommy and Daddy would have never done.)
Thanks for coming to visit Grampa Babycakes. We had a blast!

Take Me Out to The Ballgame

Matt's boss gave us tickets to an Indians game as a congratulations gift for the birth of Jackson. The ultimate guy gift, right? Originally he gave us box tickets for a Sunday afternoon game with tickets to the Terrace Club as well. Since we do not do those kind of activities on a Sunday we were bummed and were trying to think of who we could give the tickets to or they would just go to waste. But, the more we thought about it we decided we should just give him to his boss to take his family because he had spent hundreds of dollars on the tickets and we couldn't see wasting them. When Matt told his boss the situation and how we were so grateful for the tickets, but didn't want them to go to waste he said he should have know better since he knows we are Mormon. And then nice guy that he is he gave us new tickets to a game on a Saturday night. We were not expecting that at all! Matt was totally stoked! He has wanted to go to an Indians game all summer. So, last Saturday we packed up the kiddos and headed to the ballpark. Even though the Indians lost to the Royals 8-4, we had a great time. Go tribe!

Matt and Madelynne sporting their baseball caps in preparation to go to the game.


Mama and the kiddos at the game.


Daddy and Madelynne watching the game together.


Jackson did so well at his first baseball game at only 6 weeks old!


Who can resist that face! In the background of this picture you can see that our seats were behind first base and we were seven rows back. We had to keep our "heads up" because many a fly ball came our way. In the section next to ours someone got hit in the head when one of the Royals players threw the bat behind him to run to first. I guess he threw it a little too hard cause it went into the stands!

Father's Day 2008

For Father's Day we took Matt to a Captains game (the local minor league baseball team). It was the first half of the Northern Division Championship and the Captains won! The game was a double header because the game scheduled for Friday night got rained out. So, we got to see two games for the price of one. There were also fireworks after the game which Madelynne calls "fire truck". She also said they were very loud and go "Boom!".


At the game they were doing free face painting and Madelynne was so excited! After we got to our seats it was all she could talk about. She tried to take off on her own a couple of times to go get her face painted. Once we were all settled in I took her up to the booth, so she could get her face painted. There was a board of pictures of the choices and at first Madelynne wanted the tiger. Then she decided she wanted the pony. Then she saw the dog and wanted the dog. But, then when it was finally her turn she told the girl she wanted a pony. Since that was the second time she selected the pony I figured that was what she really wanted. I was incredibly surprised at how still she was while they painted her face. I mean she is only two and a half...

Close up of the pony! When we got home that night we told Madelynne she had to wash the pony off in the tubbie to get ready for church the next day. Matt held her up to the mirror and let her say bye-bye to the pony. Sunday morning when she woke up she said to Matt, "Oh no! Where did my pony go?" Matt reminded her we had to wash it off the night before and she replied, "I need to go to baseball game to get my pony." Apparently, she thinks you can get your face painted at every baseball game.

Cooking Daddy Father's Day dinner.