T-ball for Ryan

Deni signed Ryan up for T-ball this year. When I was 10 or so, I played Baseball and really disliked it, however Deni grew up playing softball and really wanted Ryan to try out T-ball.

Check out this sprint home. He's not even touching the ground!



With Ryan's age group, they had one practice, got their team shirts and hats and a schedule for the bi-weekly games (no more practices). Ryan is on the Silverhawks. He seemed to favor his left hand for batting, so he is officially a left handed batter. His bi-weekly games are for 50 minutes. No score is kept, no one can really get out, and all the kids are allowed to bat till the everyone has batted, then they switch. This continues on till the 50 minute time limit has run out.

Tonight was Ryan's first game. He was so excited. He did lots of jumping in place and other movements that constitute the excitement of a 5 yr old.

Here are a few pictures of Ryan batting.





He was fun to watch. He was more concerned about the birds or airplanes overhead than he was witht he ball, but it was fun to watch him and share in his excitement.

Ryan Graduates Kindergarten

Today was Ryan's official last day of Kindergarten. All the Kindergarten classes got together and had a 30-45 minute presentation of songs they had learned. I took off work for an hour to come see the presentation. Grandma and Grandpa Berger came too. It was fun to see him up on the stage with his class.

After the "graduation" Deni thought it would be appropriate to take Ryan out to lunch. We went to Carl's Jr, Ryan's Favorite.

Next year Ryan will be in 1st grade. They just built a brand new elementary school close to our house that Ryan will be attending. They just finished it about 2 weeks ago. Because of the school change, Ryan will be losing some of the friends he made in Kindergarten this year, but I'm sure he will make new friends within minutes.

Shew fly, Don't bother me.

At dinner this evening there was a fly bothering us at the kitchen table. It was bothering Sydney more than anyone and she was starting to get angry. I finally said to her, "Sydney, say Shew fly, don't bother me." She waited a second and then said, "Don't bother me, Shoefly."

6yrs with Novell

As I got into work this morning, I have the following email in my inbox.

Dear Brett,

Congratulations on your 6 year anniversary with Novell! We would like to take this opportunity to recognize your contributions since your service date of May 1, 2000

Sincerely,

The team at Novell

It doesn't feel like I have been at Novell for that long, but Deni was pregnant with Ryan when I started and Ryan is almost 6. Time flies.