Home. Run.

So apparently T-ball wasn't enough of a challenge. Now, Tate wants us to pitch him the ball. The scary thing is that every once in a while he hits it. If the Twins or Cards were smart, they would use a draft pick on him now.

Slugger.

He's got a small strike zone and a big swing. The kid's gonna be an OBPS machine (it's a baseball stat thing). The machine says things like, "Keep your eye on the ball!" and so does Tate. "Hey, Batter, Batter!"

Visitors

And Kevin and Meghan came! We're waging a not-so-secret campaign to get them to move from Memphis to Tulsa; it's only a matter of time till we wear them down.

In order to woo them, we did lots of entertaining things like make them help us stage a garage sale. And we drug them around looking at houses in our mad dash to find one before we have to be out of this one. So that was fun.

Somehow they still like us anyway. We like it when they visit; we like to visit them too (also something we did in the 4 months we weren't updating our blog).

January 22 - May 13

He's bigger. He talks more. He does more. He's more entertaining. What did you expect? It's been 4 months since we last posted.
But where was the public outcry? This kid is, after all, awesome. At least we think so.

Really, not much has happened in the past 4 months, except...

...Eric is no longer "Associate" Pastor. Just "Pastor." No adjectives needed.

...Tate's tonsils are gone...and his adenoids...and he's got new ear tubes...and he gets sick less now...and he now has an attachment to his "hospital bear."

...Kristen is expecting a baby due in November.

...We're outgrowing our house and interest rates are still low, so we listed our house.

...We sold our house.

...We bought a house and are closing and moving on June 1.

...Tate now has a T-ball set and a swing like Jeff Bagwell (look it up if you don't know who that is).

...Kristen and Eric went to New Orleans for a mission trip.

...Kristen went and hung out with a couple best friends from college in Nevada.

...We pulled a piano in a U-Haul trailer from...basically...Canada on the longest, shortest roadtrip to see family and friends ever.

...Having cut the aforementioned roadtrip short, Eric had 3 funerals in 2 days immediately after we got home from that trip.

...Kristen finished her 1st year of grad school.

...Kristen worked through Meningococcemia Meningitis outbreak at the PICU (sad deal).

...Tate is awesome on his bike now, except for when he flips over the handlebars, splitting his lip or skinning his nose in the process. He has a helmet now.

...A bunch of other stuff.

And we didn't update the blog once. Oops. Well, we're back. Hope you didn't give up on us!