A Summer of Baseball (T-ball)

Here are some baseball collages to capture Robin's first summer of T-ball

To find Robin, look for his red tennis shoes

First practice, June 18

First game, June 22

Third game (yes, I somehow completely didn't take pictures during the second)
July 13

Fourth game, July 20th

Fifth game, July 27

Some pics of Liam during game 5

Liam is very eager to play, and we'll probably enroll him next summer

Sixth game, August 3

Last practice, August 6
Robin even managed to hit a few balls that were thrown to him at this practice.
He also showed his greatest interest in the game at this one.

Liam at the last practice--he hits pretty well.
In fact, most of the time he shows more interest than Robin.

Liam at the final game
He practiced batting after just about every game, and got to be pretty good
(I just didn't take pictures every time.)
They gave him a medal as an honorary team member, since they had extras

Seventh and final game, August 10
He received a participation medal at the end of the game

Robin tended to wilt in the heat, so he was often more enthused about practice (at 6:00 in the evening) than the games (Saturday mornings.)  His interest in the game seemed to grow as his skills improved, which makes sense.  He says he's interested in doing it again, although we often had to prod him to participate during games.  We'll have a bit of a conundrum next year, because his best friend is moving up to Coach Pitch, and we're not sure what to do with Robin yet.  He would definitely benefit from more time in Tball, but he'll have to advance if he wants to stay with his friend.  Of course, we don't even know how well the boys will stay friends over the course of the next school year either.  We'll probably practice at home during the winter, and see how things are going next spring.

Phew!  I got through the zillions of tball pictures!  Now I can move on with my life!

Summer fun, part 7

I helped Robin create a superhero logo for himself (mainly for my own purposes, so I could start prepping for his birthday) but he then decided to cut it out and make himself an entire superhero costume.

Fun with bubbles!

Get Aunt Kat!!!

Spinning Robin

Spinning Liam

Get Aunt Kat again!!!

Dean decided that it would be fun for us to have a campout in the backyard, so one evening we set up the tent.

We got way too late of a start because we weren't sure if it was going to rain or not, so everyone got into bed very late.  The idea had been for the boys to get around their normal amount of sleep, and Dean and I to get extra, but instead the boys didn't get enough and Dean and I got about the amount we normally would want--except that we were sleeping on the hard ground and kept waking up all night long...

At any rate, the boys loved it, and Robin has requested that we do it again.  We'll have to see what kind of weather we get later on this month.

Liam has decided that he now wants a turn at taking pictures too

Dean telling a "ghost story"

All snuggled up for sleep...which would be at least twenty minutes away at this point

The next morning (rather early.  They didn't actually wake with the sun, but they were up earlier than is normally allowed, and of course they wouldn't go back to sleep.)

Exploiting child labor.

Don't you wash cars while wearing your bike helmet?

Learning how to drive already.  They grow so fast!

The other day, Dean was telling Robin about something he could do with his kids someday, and Dean would be the grandpa.  I told Robin not to wait until he was 40 until he had kids though, otherwise Dada would be 80.  Robin laughed and told me "I know Mama, you don't need to tell me."

I laughed quite a bit.

Then Robin told me that he won't have kids until he grows up and his Mama (his wife, presumably) would get babies in her tummy and then they would come out and that's when he would be a dada.  But he doesn't know when that will happen.  :)