End of Baseball

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan's last baseball tournament started today.  We were playing down in San Marcos.  I woke up at 9am and Evan was already up.  The boys were watching Back to the Future III.  We got ready and left.  On the way down we stopped at Donut Taco Palace.

It was sunny when we got there and very hot.  The air was very stagnant and humid but we were glad to not have clouds.  The team warmed up and then we went to the field we'd be playing on.  The game before us was running very late.  Rachel and Noah got there while we were watching the previous game.

The Bucs played very well.  Evan walked in his first at bat and stole second but was stranded at second.  We took a 4 run lead into the top of the 4th.  We brought Evan in to close out the game.  He got the first batter to pop up on the first pitch.  Evan got ahead of the second batter but the boy started to foul off some pitches and ended up walking.  The same thing happened with the third batter.  Runners were on first and third for fourth batter and Evan seemed like he had had enough playing around.  He quickly struck out the fourth batter then got a soft grounder from the next batter to end the game.

Just after the game ended we started seeing a lot of lightning.  They postponed the game for 30 minutes.  We went into the snack bar and waited.  But it just kept getting darker and darker so we went to the car.  Just as we got to the car the skies opened up and it just started to pour.  They cancelled all the days games so Evan and I drove back home.  Rachel and Noah had left at the conclusion of the first game.

We had leftovers for dinner.  When dinner ended I got word that San Marcos had gotten a ton of rain and the entire tournament was cancelled.  So unfortunately, our season came to an end today.  But Evan did well and I think he was glad he got on the mound today.

We went to Dairy Queen for a celebratory dessert.  While we were there I got a text from the father of a boy on Evan's team.  They wanted to know if Evan could sleep over tonight.  So when we got home, I drove Evan over and dropped him off.

We're going to have a team lunch tomorrow and that will be it until August.

Until next time...

All Boys

Note: For some reason this didn't publish last night. Here is yesterday's post.

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan came out of bed a few times last night. I think the nap is what made him not stay in bed. It took him a while to go to sleep and then he was up early this morning.

It was just boys today since Rachel is in Chicago. We got up and played in the gameroom some. Then we all got dressed and came downstairs. I put on a movie for a bit and then we went to the park. At the park, Evan was climbing on everything and doing very well. Noah went up to two boys (at separate times) that were a little bit younger than he was. One actually was his height though and was only 17 months old. He was a large kid. Each time Noah went up to these boys, he'd say "Hi baby". It was very cute. I let Evan hang from the monkey bars without holding on to him. He didn't actually go from one bar to the other but he hung there.

We were going to get smoothies after the park, but Evan was bad as we were getting in the car and then yelled "No" at me so we didn't go. I made sure he knew the reason we weren't going was him.

For lunch, both boys ate well.

I put Noah down for a nap and Evan played quietly in the gameroom.

For dinner, we picked up Little Caesar's. Evan again ate well but Noah didn't eat anything. I had promised Evan if he ate well we could get Dairy Queen. So we drove out to Dairy Queen. Noah ate all his ice cream and served himself - with his left hand. I'm pretty sure he's right-handed so I was a bit surprised. Evan ate about 3/4 of his ice cream.

We came home and I gave the boys a shower in my shower. It was a bit easier than giving them baths by myself. In fact, since it was easier and there is no standing water, I wondered why we give kids baths at all. It seems safer, I could wash them better because they were standing up and they had a great time.

They are now in bed. I'm going to watch Inglorious Basterds which I got at Redbox. We'll see how it is.

Until next time...