June 26, 2013

Kate and Samuel played T-ball this year.  Our first time at it.   And we got to be on the same team just like soccer.  Two kids on one team is way better than two kids on two different teams. We had to go and get mitts, and balls, and bats, and we even got some hats too since we were new to the sport.  Then we had a session or two of skill learning in the front yard. The kids took to it pretty well.  They at least were able to participate and contribute to their team.  Kate because she is left handed seemed to have a minor advantage because all the other kids hit the ball to the exact same spot every time- somewhere between the pitchers mound and first base.  But Kate hits the opposite way so her balls always went between the pitchers mound and third base.  We signed up for neighbourhood t-ball, which is cheaper than the rec leagues and you get teamed up with everyone you live by, except so many kids from our neighbourhood signed up that there were two teams.  We got to be on the Green Gators Team.  Mary, Bethy and I cheered them on every Monday and Wednesday morning for an hour for the last several weeks.  It was so much fun to watch them in action.  Each time Sam would come up to bat he would look at me on the bleachers and give me a thumbs up, except he gives me his index finger so it is more like a "number 1"  which works to.  Their favorite parts of T-ball include snacks, and playing catcher and first base... or so they say.  Not hitting, though that is the part they are best at..... well and eating snacks of course too.  They say they won every game except one, and that was because they played a team with a more ferocious mascot.  Nobody keeps score in these games but my kids deducted that it was based on what your team name was.... for example we played the Mosquitos, and they couldn't believe somebody would choose to be that because of course Gators would win in a battle against mosquitos.    I can't remember all of the teams but they are all an animal, and since a Gator is pretty mean and scary we won almost every game.... except when we played something of a similar ferocity... perhaps it was a bear, and they decided that the bear team won.  Funny stuff.