When our oldest was younger she kept our early summers occupied with rookie baseball and then softball. It was a great time but Mother Nature was very unkind at times. Well Emily has moved on to bigger and better things so now the title of Sports Jock has fallen to our 7 year old Gabriel. He was in little kid basketball his kindergarten year and was your typical "I would rather be playing tag with my friends than pay attention" kid. (as was most of the kids in this league) Well this past year, after watching his first game, we thought "here we go again." Well, on the way home from that first game, Albert had a man to man talk with him about being a good player and paying attention. So he started practicing out in the driveway. Well that lasted a day or so but the talk must have stuck with him because at the next game and all the ones after he was an animal. He literally got almost every rebound, including the ones he fought his teammate for....:-/. Well the same went for T-Ball. The first game consisted of him playing tag with his friends and not paying attention at all! In his defense, they only have 1 real practice before their season starts and he didn't get a good feel for the game last year because Mother Nature rained out most of his games! Well, Albert had another man to man with him and now he pays attention better but tries to get every ball in the outfield and always wants to be first at bat. Hopefully by the time he gets to the higher levels of play, he will have a better understanding that his teammates are actually there to help him! :-) I also hope that when he is a senior in high school playing basketball, he still waves to me and tells me "Mom, I love you!"
Gabriel playing 2nd base. (in the red shirt...his team is called the Cherry Bombs)
Still on 2nd base
Getting ready to bat.
Slugger!
Just made it to 1st after an awesome hit!
What Rollie does at the T-Ball games.
(notice the lovely shade of blue on his toes...his Dad loves it!)
Another photo op for little brother!
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