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First up...Promotion day for Martial Arts. Lukas was promoted to Camoflauge belt. Of course my camera decided to act up when Lukas got his turn to break the board. Fortunately our neighbor's son is in Lukas' class and she took one for me.
Getting a little pre class chat with Mr. Parsons Showing off his new belt

We had a quick bite to eat and then it was off to T-ball practice. Getting some pointers from Coach James

Swing and miss...

Nailed this one out past 2nd base.

Look out Linton Springs, here comes Lukas!

Well, as hard as it may be to believe, it is time to register Lukas for Kindergarten. So I took a couple of hours off work this morning to go to the school to register him. He and our neighbors 5 year old will be going to school together. I fear this school will never be the same. When I told Lukas I had registered him for the big kids school he responded, "Thanks Mom!" We'll see if he still feels that way when school starts!

Mudcats T-ball

Lukas "Luca" Robey

Mudcats- Sykesville Baseball

Age 5

FIRST T-BALL PRACTICE OF THE SEASON A little team banter with team mate Lucas. Naturally the two with the same name had to gravitate towards each other.

Coach Trevor explaining the bases to the team. The team has one little girl and the rest boys.

Lining up to practice grounders and catching.

He couldn't wait to put the batting helmet on. Of course once he reached 1st base he wanted to take it off. I think it is going to be a long season if this is how we focus during the game.

A little live action for you.

Our little lepruchan

Me: Lukas come hear for a minute Lukas: Whaaaaaaaat? An adolescent attitude at age 5!

NASA, Russian astronauts land in Kazakh steppe

By PETER LEONARD, Associated Press Peter Leonard, Associated Press – Wed Mar 16, 6:31 pm ET

ALMATY, Kazakhstan – NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely Wednesday in the snowy expanses of central Kazakhstan after spending five months on the International Space Station.
The Soyuz capsule carrying Kelly, Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka landed at 1:53 p.m. (0753 GMT) about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the northern Kazakh city of Arkalyk.
Kelly returns to earth just as his twin brother Mark, husband of wounded congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, prepares to take part in the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour's final mission in April. Scott Kelly was shown in a NASA photo wearing a blue wristband with a peace sign, a heart and the name "Gabby."
The capsule came back to harsh conditions, including a stiff wind that blew it on its side and rolled it 22 meters (25 yards) from its touchdown point through fresh snow.
Rob Navias, a spokesman for the U.S. space agency NASA on the scene, described conditions as "like a scene from the North Pole."
The space travelers were bundled into blankets after being pulled from the capsule, then placed in reclining stretchers as they slowly acclimated to the planet's gravity after months of weightlessness.
The capsule landed about 3 1/2 hours after undocking from the ISS. After hurtling through space, it deployed a parachute about 15 minutes before touchdown, slowing its speed from 800 kph (500 mph) to about 290 kph (180 mph).
A second parachute slowed its descent to 25 kph (16 mph). Then with the ground just a few meters (yards) away, six engines on the capsule's bottom were fired, bringing it to a gentle landing in a powdery cloud of fresh snow.
The first out was Kaleri, who has now spent a total of 770 days in space over five flights, making him the second most experienced space flier in history after compatriot Sergei Krikalyov. Navias said Kaleri smiled and winked at him as he was lifted out.
Skripochka and Kelly also appeared to be in good shape.
"Scott Kelly is looking remarkably well," Navias said.
In a break with usual practice, search-and-recovery personnel dispensed with the ritual of taking the returning astronauts to inflatable medical tents for a checkup and instead loaded them directly onto all-terrain vehicles.
"The search and recovery team have decided it's too cold, it's too wintery, it's too Arctic out here in terms of the overall conditions," Navias said.
During his time on the space station, Kelly ran a series of challenges on his Twitter feed in which his followers had to identify locations on earth shown in photographs taken from the orbiting laboratory.
The final photo posted was of snow-covered Kazakhstan.
Russian Dmitry Kondratyev, Italy's Paolo Nespoli and American Catherine Coleman remain aboard the space station; they are to return to earth in about three months.

Homework time

Working hard on his homework Sunday evening after returning from a fun packed weekend at Grandma and Grandpa's farm with family.

Birthday/Baptism Bash for Cousin Abbie

Since Lukas appeared to have recovered from whatever virus ailed him, we headed to my parent's farm for cousin Abbie's 2nd birthday and baptism. Lukas was quite excited to see cousin Abbie and celebrate a birthday party. Birthday flowers we sent to Grandma for her birthday the previous weekend. With cousins Cheyenne and Sheridan at Uncle Matt and Aunt Kate's for the party.

Helping Aunt Debbie decorate the cake for the Baptism

Chef Lukas giving it a go decorating a cupcake

Cousin Abbie with her godparents and Pastor Tim

Decorating 101

Chef Lukas in action

New meaning to "Port a Potty"

The school called around 10:30am to inform us that Lukas was sick. He had thrown up several times already. Wayne went to pick him up and take him home. By the time I got home he had been sick a few more times and was sleeping on the sofa. The bug eventually worked it's way through his system. Within less than 30 minutes he had gone through 2 sets of pants. Of course, we don't have any more pull-ups since he is a big boy now. So Wayne headed to the store to get some supplies. While he was gone Lukas insisted he couldn't put his pants back on in case he needed to go again. He was headed to the sofa and I told him he wasn't sitting on the sofa under the circumstances. So we worked out a port-a-potty until daddy got home. The bin on the table was the one he came home with from school in case he got sick in the car. I think we have both ends covered now.