Today is Evan's 8th birthday. It's hard to believe we met him for the first time eight years ago. When I got up, he was playing MLB Power Pros on the Wii. He wanted to open his gifts. He was excited to get a Penguins Jersey from Zayde.
We had a 10:30 baseball game for Noah. Evan came with me. Rachel came later. Unfortunately, we lost but the kids played really well despite the loss. Noah hit the ball very well and of course was a smart baserunner as he usually is. Really the kids did very well.
After the game, one of the boys from Noah's team invited him over so he went home with them.
When I got home I had a missed call and an email. Apparently the team that Evan was supposed to play later in the afternoon didn't have enough kids and had to forfeit the game. Evan was disappointed. We arranged to have a practice during that time at the fields.
Around 3pm, Evan and I went over to the fields and we practiced. There were 6 of the 11 kids there but it was fun. The kids were all doing well and Evan had an absolute blast. The kids that came were the kids that Evan is close with.
From there, we drove to pick up Evan's friend Wade. We planned to take them to the Round Rock Express game. We bought lawn seats in the outfield. We got Wade and then jumped in the car and drove to Round Rock for the game. An inning after we got there someone hit a home run. It went just over Evan's head. In fact, I don't think he completely saw it until it hit the grass and bounced back towards a kid. Evan literally dove onto the ground with the boy that the ball bounced towards and another boy and almost had the ball. Evan seemed to have a really good time with Wade and he was into the baseball game. In the top of the 8th, another home run came and that was a big pile. Evan jumped into that one as well. That one made me a bit nervous because it was a bigger pile. Evan was a bit disappointed that he didn't come away with the ball.
We came home, dropped Wade off and now the boys are in bed.
Until next time...
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