A lot of baseball

I definitely hit my limit yesterday.  Ryan left at 10:40 for the game.  They had 12pm and 3 pm games.  By the time we got home it was after 5.  We relaxed for less than an hour and then went to watch a friend’s travel team.  He coaches 12 year olds.  They were amazing.  After about an hour, I was so done for the day.  I left Harvey with the boys and came home.  Harvey finally came home around 8…without Ryan.  A friend brought him home after 8:30.  Then we had dinner, I did Ryan’s laundry, and we got up for another game this morning.  Two more tournaments to go!

 

 

 

  This is Ryan about five minutes after losing the game.  After the coach talked with them they all started playing ball on the grass.  Another group came over and asked if our guys wanted to play a game with them.  One of the players asked who they were.  The kid said, “We’re the team that just beat you.”  And our team said, “Sure.”   So there’s a group of kids who could teach us all a few things!

 

Wanting, wanting, wanting…to join in.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday, Ryan told me, “I don’t care about the score, I just want to play baseball.”  Mommy has a lot to learn from this little guy! : )

Off-duty

I gave the camera a few days off!  I just finished putting all of the pictures into Ryan’s kindergarten book.  Now I have to do the writing.  I may get this done before he starts second grade!  September has about 20 pages and April and May each have 2!  I must have given the camera some vacation days then too. 

I bought presents for Kimmy’s foster mom and social worker.  I have also gotten a few things for the trip.  I need to write a note to her foster mom so my friend’s mom can translate it for me.  I have to start on that soon.  Even though we have several more weeks, I don’t want to be all frenzied in the last few days. 

Harvey started working on the bathroom again.  Those darn shingles set us back big time.  Kimmy may have to wait a couple of months for a real bath, but we might have a floor!

Tomorrow starts another tournament.  One of our players quit in the middle of the last one.  Another kid had a fever yesterday…It’s going to be interesting!

So, there are some random happenings around here.  Camera is back on duty tomorrow!

Just Keep Swimming, Just Keep Swimming,…

We started lessons again this morning.  Nothing feels quite like summer like swimming. 

 

 

 

 

No Mercy

Last night’s game was more brutal.  The boys looked the best I had ever seen any of them play all season.  We were ahead 17-12 in the fourth and then…the worst umpire ever…made three bad calls and the boys just couldn’t recover from them.  I have never seen an umpire stand 15 feet from the home plate before.  He actually stood by the dugout.  He missed a tagged out at homeplate that 30 parents witnessed.  We lost 17-18.  There were tears…but not Ryan’s.  He sat in the dugout by himself eating sunflower seeds as parents were consoling their kids.  I think he thought he was actually a major league player at that moment.  He’s asked several times today if I will buy him sunflower seeds.  All you want Buster!

“Mercy”

Last night was brutal.  We played another travel team and they were amazing.  Their level of play was…higher than ours.They used the ‘mercy’ rule when they went ahead by 12.  Tonight we play a team that only lost to this great team by one.  I feel a little more mercy coming our way!  The highlight of last night for me was Ryan high-fiving everyone with a big smile.  He couldn’t have cared less, and he woke up to hear about Matt Cain and watch the replays all morning.  To celebrate Matt Cain’s perfect game I found this Giant’s suit for Kimmy this afternoon.  She’s all set!

20 Months!

Our little girl is 20 months old!  We’re getting close…only one more update before we get to see her in person!  (and I can take a clear picture!)

7-6

What a game!  The fields are the nicest I’ve seen.  We had a rough start.  OUR coach struck out two of OUR players in the first inning and again in the second.  By the third inning we were down 4-1.  In the fifth inning we were at 6-4.  In the sixth, and last inning, we held them to 6 and then brought in three runs to win.  It was about as much excitement as I could handle!