After lots of practice, sleepness nights (Ryan!) and purchasing new bats...our spring baseball season began! We are the Cardinals again (after my efforts to change our team name failed)! Caden and Rylan are both on the team this year. We went from 4 games a week, to only 2 games a week. We had the first game of the season at 6:00 last night. Rylan pitched and Caden played center field, with one inning at 2nd base. It was a close game with one of our pick-up players from last season pitching on the opposing team, who happens to be one Rylan's good friends! We wouldn't call it a 'good' win. It was the first game and defiantly had its ugly moments! The Cardinals did manage to pull off a victory. Caden had a strike out, got hit by the pitcher and hit his first triple..which is impressive considering the lack of length on his legs!! He must take at least two steps to the other kids one step. He stole home with a big slide over the plate. The only action in the field for Caden was fielding a homerun by Ben (the pitcher from the other team). He made a quick good through towards home plate but the runner was safe. Rylan had 15 strike outs and 7 walks. He also had a strike out, a double, a pop-up that was caught and a walk. Hudson enjoys baseball as much as all the other boys in this family. He wears Caden's old cleats and pants. He slides and yells, "SAFE" everywhere he goes. At one point last night, he heard the umpire say 'strike 3.' Hudson turned around and said "he's out!" His friend, Trey, has a sister on our team and they play well together during the games. Summer can't get here fast enough with games starting. We get home late and up early for school! We end up with several grouchy kids in the afternoon! But, it is still our favorite time of the year!
