Ball, Ball, and more Ball…

Well, we have almost finished our first season with two ball players.

Cason has been playing Dixie Youth Baseball. We started the season as a Rookie with several veteran players on the team. He was excited about playing, although he didn’t know many teammates. As the season has progressed, his hitting and his fielding have improved greatly, but his excitement has waned. When I would tell him of a game on those afternoons, he would whine and complain and say it wasn’t fun, but yet during the game he always had a smile on his face. Well, after much discussion about having fun, we finally realized that it is the uniform he doesn’t like and complains about each game. “The socks are hot” he says. Well, the socks are part of the uniform, and the uniform is part of the game. We have won some, lost some, and tied some – all in all a pretty good season.

Dustin, on the other hand, has been playing T-ball. Well, if you want to have a good laugh, go to a T-ball game. Each inning, every child on the team gets to bat – outs aren’t tallied, and neither are runs. Both teams go home thinking they have won. Dustin LOVES T-ball. He is excited about every game and plays his heart out.

Brian and I take turns at most of these games. Sometimes we both make it, sometimes they have a game at the same time and we have to decide who goes where. Other times, we have ended up in the emergency room after Cason’s game getting stitched in Dustin’s face from a hit with a golf club (go figure) or I ended up at home with Evan with poop all over him and me. So…

The next two weeks have us playing ball 4 nights out of five, with church in the middle on the fifth. Whew, I will be glad when this ball season is over, though it has been quite an experience.