Colby's 5th Birthday

Colby wanted to go swimming for his 5th birthday. There weren't many people that he wanted to invite. It ended up being the Hillard clan and grandparents. He had fun, of course!

Aunt Janell's gift arrived on Colby's birthday, so the boys put it together.
Balloons from Mema!

My loving big brother.

A cupcake platter. The frosting started sinking in between the cupcakes as it got warmer.

Notice how buddy Grayson has his mouth covered, most likely by a sibling, so he won't blow out the candles early. He he!

Colby couldn't wait to use his new Bakugan umbrella.

Tball 2010

So, Mr. 05/05/2005 missed the birthday cutoff at Glenwood by 5 days this year so he got to play for the Vancouver Parks & Rec team. He, of course, has been waiting to play since he was 2- "I play Tball", while Brady was still playing T-ball, so he was NOT waiting another year. He will have to play a year of T-ball at Glenwood before he can try out to move up, so next year will be his "official" T-ball year. Unfortunately, he is the little brother of a baseball player so his skills were a little higher than your average first year player. He would tell me the whole way home, "Mom, they don't know the rules. They don't play right." He still had fun though.

Here is his official picture- adorable, I know. So sweet and innocent- yeah, right!

The party at the end of the season with Coach Burl- the man should teach kindergarten. He has soooo much patience with the kids.

Colby and his trophy. The coach even named the team The Tigers, just for Colby.

This was a common sight after a ball was hit. The ENTIRE team, (at least those paying attention), would RUN after every ball. Then it was a dogpile issue. And trust me, even though Colby knows how to play, he would run from 3rd base for a ball hit toward 1st base EVERY time!

Colby hit the ball pretty hard and it would often roll almost to the outfield before anyone could stop it.

Whenever Colby got to play 1st base, he would jump up and down and shout, "Throw it to me!"

You can practically hear him in this picture!

Ok, so with our "Northwest spring" this year, there were many rainouts. Even when we weren't rained out, rain was always threatening in the distance. So, here is a raincoat pic for you all!

"You're out!"

So, technically there are no "outs" in Tball, but if the stars all aligned and a player actually got up out of the dogpile with the ball in hand AND remembered to throw the ball to 1st base, AND the 1st baseman retrieved the ball AND made it to 1st in time to make the play, they should be out, just because that is an impossible task!

Just call me 'catch'!