Baseball Celebration

What a crew...it was a real life experience, being parents to a child on a team. The frustrations, concerns, insanity of dragging young ones to the field, all of it. Coaching or the lack there of sometimes, no communication (makes the anal retentive planner NUTS), coach pitching (dude they are three feet tall), parents and the decisions we all make, everything. And this is instructional league.

Gavin's team and league had a really nice picnic to round out the season. They had games, picnic food and treats and awards. It ended up going a little long because the games took awhile: base running relay, longest hit, long throw and accurate throw. Gavin was party of his team's base running relay team and was really fast. Their team did well but didn't place.

[Gavin misplaced his hat, or now after the fact, I should say I misplaced, his hat for the day. He proudly wore his tribe hat although, sadly, the Tribe would have been hard pressed to beat the Crackerjacks this year.]

Gav was really excited to receive his trophy. He is very proud and it is now displayed in his room on his night stand. He wants to play baseball again and soon. We a might consider fall ball. We'll see, maybe something new.
I love that baseball afforded Gavin a new opportunity to meet new kids and make new friends. He new one kid on the team - Carly from preschool/daycare. The age range for instructional league is 5-7 year olds. Most of the boys were 6 or 7. The five year olds were Gavin and the girls. Funny... Either way, I am a litle less worried now that I have seen Gavin thrive in a new setting with new people and kids with the impending start of kindergarten in the fall.

Baseball was a goo thing for our family. Nora was not a big fan in the beginning but made a new friend too. One of the brothers (Micah) to a teammate (Noah) got along wonderfully with Nora. Micah was 7 but he liked Nora and they played with her princess dolls and he of course preferred Mickey Mouse or the wrestlers that Nora began keeping in the bag for him. In the end, Nora proclaimed that she wanted to play baseball and this was the new complaint. I suppose we may consider spring 2010 ball for her since she will be 4+. Maybe...

Dylan is a HUGH baseball fan. We tried to keep him in the stroller as long as possible during the game with either lunch, snack or toys. He usually spent the third (and final inning) inning roaming around, throwing balls, etc. He had a blast. He only says a few words these days at 16 months but two of them are "ball" and "throw". he likes to throw everything - all toys, items, everything. He carried around the you bat and can actually throw a ball pretty far. He may be the baseball star in the bunch.