This baseball/softball season we had 3 kids playing. It was rather busy. Each kid had one midweek game and a Saturday game. Sometimes it was each game starting within a half-hour of each other, sometimes one right after the other, sometimes it spread out the whole day. Regardless, it was crazy.
On Brynn's team, the Green Geckos, she got to play pitcher and catcher quite a bit.
She has a pretty good little arm on her. Some of the girls on her team can barely throw to first base still.
Brynn was a great little player. Unfortunately it only took about 3 games for me to realize how annoying it is to listen to all the little girls scream out softball cheers for and hour and half NONSTOP!!! We decided, not just because of the chanting, that she probably won't play softball again next year. I think soccer will be her sport:)
Bryson killed it this year. He had a great season connecting with the ball and even got at least one home run!!! He was able to score some triples and really had a lot more confidence in his abilities this year.
He also spent some time pitching and did a great job. I think he prefers catching but he liked trying out a new position.
And then there's Hudson! T-ball is pretty funny to watch. Tanner said its like herding cats most of the time. Each kid gets to bat and run all the way through the bases each inning. They were a cute bunch of kids. It was batting off the Tee for the first half of the season and then coaches pitch the second half.
He was a total stud and rarely needed the Tee to bat off of.
In T-ball you would think its required to slide into every. single. base. It's not:)
And in T-ball if the ball comes your direction you go for it. And if the ball goes somewhere not even close to you, you still go for it. Basically, the whole team tries to get the ball no matter where it ends up:)
I love watching him play now. He's got a killer swing and really has some power when he hits. Sometimes their games are very exciting.
For a big kid toting 105 ell bees around he's pretty stinking fast.
Occasionally I see how everyone thinks Bryson looks just like Tanner:)
Tanner loves coaching the kids' teams and they love having him a their coach. I'm so grateful he has a job that allows him so much flexibility to always be there with the kids.
All the younger brothers like to get together at the games and go do "boy stuff". Sketty is happier than a pig in mud following them around.
Drain pipes are super fascinating to him for some reason. He loves to look down inside and yell "EEWWWWW!"
And he loves being in the dugout with all the big boys, trying on helmets and drinking everyone's Gatorade.
But most of all he loves B!!!
I figure I better learn all the rules of baseball now because I have like 18 more years of it.
