End of Baseball/T-Ball for the Kids

Samantha finished off the season and improved so much!  Even hitting the ball off the machine! 

Played catcher! 

Did an overall great job with keeping up with all the boys! Can you spot the pink shorts in the dugout? 

Samantha's teacher, Mrs. Mulligan, came to the last game. She had several current and past students on the Rockhound team. 

Having fun at the end of the season pizza party and awards ceremony. 

As usual, Coach Jules did an amazing job with taking the time to say something special about each kid. 

Bobble-head trophy complete with ponytail in the back for our girl!

And then there was this little guy who finished the Y T-ball season. 

He was SUPER proud of his trophy, even carrying it around a birthday party we went to after the last game. 

You can't even see his bruised/scratched up face from the fall he took the night before he took these pictures. Perhaps they gave him a free touch-up? ;)

By the way, no Rockhound photos for Samantha as we were out of town and too lazy to go to the makeup picture day, oh well… The desk drawer is starting to fill up with all these photo opportunities we take for school, sports, dance etc. 

And that's a wrap for baseball! Looking forward to AYSO in the fall!

T-Ball

FINALLY it is time for this little guy to do an organized activity.

Although I am not sure how organized the YMCA T-Ball is….

Thatcher's having fun though ;)

I think.

He gets told to be in his "ready position" and Thatcher has the best "bum on a bucket" stance I've seen. 

He's like a statue. 

First game!

The best part is that Jack is on the team with Thatch. (Not sure I could survive these practices or games without the Paskin crew) ;)

Look how enthusiastic these two are?!

The Dodgers (we had no say in the team name….)

Snacks and high-fiving the other team at the end of the game is what Thatcher says is his favorite. 

Picture Day! Which by the way his photos will be interesting when we get them as the night before picture day he fell off the top of the play structure at preschool and bruised and scraped up his face pretty bad. 

Here's some video of practices and games. The games are a comedy of errors. I am not sure what rules they play by but it is good practice for your first year and definitely cute to see these kids have so much fun even though they pretty much have no idea what they are doing ;)  You will hear in the actual games a lot of, "GO GO GO GO GO!" "THROW IT TO FIRST" "GET BASEBALL READY", "TAG HIM" and my favorite, "DON'T FIGHT, WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME TEAM"!!!