Timmy 4.333 years and the Presidents

As I prepared to write this monthly update post on Timmy, I realized that I haven't done one for him since his fourth birthday!  This certainly wasn't planned, but with vacations interrupting my schedule and so much else going on, they slipped by me.  Luckily, I was already planning to write about Timmy and the National's Presidents, and that will cover a lot of what Timmy has been up to the last four months!

We went to a lot of baseball games this summer, and even after loving meeting the characters in Disney World last April, it took a little convincing to get Timmy to like getting up close to the Presidents.  Uncle Joe working with them, and sometimes even being one of them, helped a lot!  Once Timmy decided he liked the President's, they quickly became the most important part of all trips to the ball park for him.  Timmy's current signature picture pose is the thumbs up, because, as he told me, that's how the President's pose.

Back in May ~ Keep me away form that thing!

Early August ~ With Uncle Gecko

Late August 

Again in Late August

As a recap for anyone who might not know, these President's aren't just there for photo-ops, they run a race between the top and bottom of the 4th of every home game.  And since the beginning of team history, 7 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt had never, ever won the race, no matter how much craziness or cheating there was during the race!  This bothered Tim a lot, and Timmy didn't like it either.  He pulled for Teddy every race!  As the National's season got better and better, rumors started flying that Teddy might finally win.  Tim guessed that if Teddy was ever going to win, it would be the last regular season game this year, so he took Timmy to that game.

And Teddy finally won!!!  You can watch the race here if you like.

Teddy celebrating right after his first ever win!

The line to take pictures with the President's was even longer then usual that day, but having an Uncle in the business has it's benefits!  Joe managed to pull Timmy up and he took the official first fan photo with Teddy after his huge win, and we have Secret Service who will vouch for that!

We also took Timmy with us to the play off game that I went to.  Unfortunately the National's lost, but Teddy won again, as he did during all of the home play off games!  It was actually one of our favorite races they've done, they came out in aloha shirts and did a dance performance, and Joe was Thomas Jefferson that day!  When we went to see the President's we asked for them to dance for Timmy and they obliged.

Timmy waits patiently after having his picture taken for the crowds to clear, because then the President's get silly and playful.  I suggested that Timmy race a president and Uncle Jefferson lined up.  Teddy was the finish line and declared Timmy the winner, and Abe came over to congratulate him.  Timmy was in heaven!

Of course Timmy has other things going on to update you on too!  School has started and he loves it again this year.  He's in class with his best buddy, Nate, and a few other friends from last years class.  But he does complain that he isn't in class with Caleb, Henry, or Reagan (the little girl who called him Pooh Bear).  Blastball Season is also well under way and Timmy looks forward to his practice and game every week.  He's drawing houses now, thanks to Ms. Suzanne, and drew Mickey Mouse for me last week too!  Both were happy surprises!

Another new, and very helpful, accomplishment is that Timmy can now buckle himself up in the car, completely unassisted!  He has also figured out the remote control, he can now turn the tv on, get to the recorded programs, and turn on his own shows.  I'm not sure how I feel about this, but if he ever gets to the point where he goes downstairs and turns on Saturday morning cartoons for himself, instead of waking me up, I think I will like it!  He is also still the best big brother Tyler could have asked for, and is always praising, encouraging, loving on, teasing, and torturing Tyler around the clock!  ;)