Go Sharks!!

Cord has always loved playing baseball and we've been waiting for the day that he was old enough to learn how to play a real game with a team. This is his year to start playing T-ball. The boys voted on their team name and decided to call themselves the "Sharks" (which is better than the "trees" or "killers"). His first game was today. It was so funny. First I must say that I love how relaxed the whole game is. Parents are coming on and off the field to help their boys. Everyone gets to hit and run. Nobody keeps score or track of outs. It's all just fun. Second, I'll say that there is "crying in baseball" when it comes to playing with 3 and 4 year olds. If someone didn't get the ball when they wanted, there was crying. Or the boys would get tired and want to quit - then start crying. There were also some pile-ups happening which reminded me more of a tackle football game instead of baseball.

Cord is left handed, but is still having a hard time getting the swing down. He can actually hit both ways which I guess is our secret skill. I was surprised how hard it was to find a little left handed mitt though. I went to 5 sports stores until I finally found one. Cord has 8 games total which takes us into the first of December. Only in Vegas do you start your season in October and end in December - weird. I guess that's because if they were playing in the summer they would all DIE!

Sorry for the picture overload here. I was just having so much fun capturing his first ever baseball game and he was so cute. Believe me when I say that I did cut some of the picture out though.












WARNING: The next couple of pictures contain sports violence......

Right after Cord got the ball, he got tackled. But he emerged out of the rubble and lifted the ball straight up to show that he got it. Then the coach had to peel all the boys off of him and instead of throwing the ball, he ran it over to 1st base.

Note the little player still on the ground in the corner........ crying.