T-Ball

What I love about T-ball:

1. Owen in his white baseball pants, blue belt, blue socks, baseball shirt and hat, and his tennis shoes.

2. Greg as the coach.

3. When Owen gets up to bat and holds the bat so proud and looks over at me with his big smile. 

4. The way Owen runs to the base and then looks over at me to see if I am watching.  Once he knows I am watching he smiles proudly and gives me a thumbs up.

5. The fact that Owen never runs to the next base until someone yells “OWEN RUN!”

6. Watching Ivy as she watches the game and claps with the crowd.

7. The part of the game on Saturday when Owen ran as fast as he could toward 2nd base.  On his way there a little girl on the opposite team touched him (not with the ball, she just touched him with her hand).  Owen wasn’t sure what to do as sometimes they play the outs, sometimes they just keep going.  He knew the rules enough to know something was going on but wasn’t sure what to do.  He stopped in the middle of 1st and 2nd base to get the go ahead from Greg.  The sidelines were yelling and screaming, “GO”, “RUN”, “OWEN RUN”.  He wasn’t going.  He was standing in the middle with an awkward smile on his face waiting direction from those in charge.  After what seemed like forever, at last the coach gave the go ahead to run.  He made it safely to 2nd.

8. The day that Greg asked Owen why he didn’t go after the ball, to which Owen replied, “Cause I didn’t hear anyone say, “Owen, get the ball””.

9. That while in the outfield Owen is usually doing something like picking grass and putting it on his mitt.

10. Noni and baby coming to hang out and support team Rascals.

11. That Owen is brave enough to play.

12 . And finally that Greg teaches them to love the game and do their best, and saves the winning and losing, the doing bad and doing good, and the competitiveness for the rest of their lives and lets them be little for just awhile longer.