Ryan's First Trophy

Tonight was supposed to be Ryan's last t-ball game, but afternoon thunderstorms prevented them from playing. Ryan's coach had previously made plans for the team members and their families to go to Cici's Pizza to eat and pass out trophies. --All of the t-ball players receive a trophy. There is no score keeping, therefore no champions. T-ball is a great entry for kids to let them learn to bat and field. It was really nice that the entire league received trophies.-- Since they were not able to play the game, we met at Cici's at game time. Coach Nichol introduced each player and presented them with their trophy that had their name engraved on it. Ryan was SO proud as he walked up to accept his trophy. After showing it to Mike he sat beside me and said "Mommy, this is fragile." I said, "I know, it is fragile." "It's glass" he said. No idea :). When we got home he requested we place his trophy somewhere in his room that Lydia and Emily can't reach it.

In the picture with Ryan is Christian. Christian is a neighbor of ours. Ryan goes to his house two mornings a week and Christian's mom gets Ryan to school for us those days. This is a result of our work schedules.

Completely un-related to t-ball but very funny . . . I tend to find things funny that are really a "had to be there to think it was funny" kind of thing. Tonight, after leaving Cici's we stopped at Wal-Mart. Mike had to pick up a few things and I wanted to make a copy of a picture (which never happened, but that is a story for another time :( ). Mike took Ryan with him and Lydia and Emily came with me. Our Wal Mart has recently remodeled and I have no idea where ANYTHING is right now so our walk through the store to find the photo processing place was a long one. As we were walking I was explaining to the girls that Mommy had to make a copy of a picture and they must stay with me or they would suffer consequences. Lydia says to me "Ok Mommy, but Lydia and Emily (she sometimes talks about herself in the third person) need to go check something first and then we will come back to you." Trying to keep from laughing I corrected her and reiterated the consequence she would suffer if she went to "check on something first."

Opening Day . . . FINALLY!!!! and Opening Night

After Ryan's T-ball Opening Day game was rained out, the next game was their "game off" day, we began to think Ryan would not get to play any of his t-ball games! Tonight was the "Hoppers" first game.

Iwent into this t-ball thing thinking there would always be a "t" at homeplate. The ball would be placed on the "t" and the child would hit the ball. This is not the case. Each player gets three pitches/tries to hit the ball and if they are not successful, they are then given the "t." Ryan's first at bat . . . 1st pitch strike, 2nd pitch strike, 3rd pitch . . . he hit the ball!! Since he was the last batter of the inning he ran around all the bases. Fielding by 4, 5 & 6 year olds is really not the greatest :). The coach usually stops the player at 1st until the last batter of the inning. In my world . . . he hit a homerun the first time he walked to the plate . . . and without a "t!" We were quite proud! Since Mike is one of the Assistant Coaches, he was the pitcher tonight so the hit was pretty exciting for him!

McGaheysville Elementary School's Pre-k, Kindergarten and 1st grade classes preformed in a musical program tonight at the school. We were instructed to have our child dressed (in their finest "farm clothes") and in their classroom at 6:40 tonight. Ryan's t-ball game was not supposed to be over until 7:00. First game of the season, and we miss the end of it. Ryan quickly changed clothes in the van, we cleaned him off, hoped that the sweat would not go through his plaid shirt, and went into the school. The program was so cute!! Each classroom went up on stage and sang a selected song. It was great!! I am including a movie of Ryan's classroom performance. He did not seem to sing very loud, but does the motions quite well!! We are very proud of our little guy! He is growing up WAY TOO FAST!!!

Ryan starts T-ball!

We signed Ryan up for T-ball this year and he started his practices tonight. The games will start towards the end of April. The McGaheysville t-ball league has 4, 5 and 6 year olds on the teams. We decided to wait until he was in Kindergarten before we signed him up. Mike signed up for Assistant Coaching (when he is able to be there) and started that tonight as well. They both had so much fun!! Ryan practiced a little defense, hitting and running the bases. On our walk home he kept saying "Mommy, I had a really lot of fun!" Lydia and Emily enjoyed being there as well watching "the teams." There were a couple of kids that were on his team that he knew from school. It was great! We are so excited about him playing and are hoping this is the beginning of his professional sports career:). We will keep you posted on his game schedule.