And a few more Dodgers

These were from the March 26th game.  I am so behind on pictures.  But here are few more!

 There is a lot of playing in the dirt!

 Dodgers getting ready...

 Don't watch the ball.  You need to run!  He is just meandering to first.

 Now we are picking it up a little.

Yes, that is my son on second base during the game.  He saw a little dirt and couldn't help himself.

Pitchers mound.  Need to focus a little more here!

Love the ball in action shots.

And I love the action shots. 

A little more of Batman and the Dodgers

Here are a few more of my cutie playing ball.

 Daddy is his coach this year.  There is good and bad with that.  But Chris is doing a great job keeping up with all 12 boys.  I am in awe of his patience with the kids. 

 Another at bat.

And one of my sweetie. 

Dodgers Play Ball

I am finally getting around to working on Batman's ball pictures from the season.  Here are a few we snapped before heading to the game last Saturday.

He is a cutie pie!

And here are a few from the game.  

 Playing pitcher.

 Hanging out at second base. lol

 I don't know what he was doing here on first???

 After the game.

 Hands in!

 Go Dodgers!

 Daddy was tough!!! He finally got the game ball.  He did really good this week. 

 Me and my man!

 And a couple more because I get so frustrated with how blogger loads pictures sometimes!

 Up at bat.

And one last slide (sit) into home!

Proud and Tough

So where do I start.  This was one of those times I just have to write down before I forget!

My sweet pea is struggling with her attitude lately.  My once go with the flow, listen to mom little girl is really testing this mama with her comments and responses and attitude toward daily activities.

So we are eating lunch on Sunday.  We only had about 30 minutes after church and before softball practice to change, eat and get to the fields.

Batman has the pringles and instead of just simply asking for some chips, Ladybug jumps down from the table, walks around and takes the can out of his hands.  So we immediately correct her and tell her to sit back down and ask nicely.  She gets angry and won't ask him and sits and sulks.  I tell her to hurry because we need to leave.

She states, "I don't want to go to practice".  So Chris and I jump right on that wagon and said ok, we don't have to go.  Well, that doesn't make her happy either.

My defiant little girl says, "Fine, I will just walk myself."  Chris and I are just looking at each other.  A few minutes later, she gets down and walks away.

She very calmy went and got her softball backpack.  She looks at me and says very nicely, I got all my stuff, made sure everything was in my bag and I grabbed some water from the fridge.   Then she walks out the door and leaves.

Wow!  Now, first of all, if I would have told her to check her back and get water and not followed up, we would have gotten to practice missing something and she would be crying because she didn't have anything to drink when she got hot.

So Chris and I sneak out and sure enough, there she goes.  Walking in her cleats (which she also put on herself) with her big backpack with her bat sticking out!

She turned around once but kept on walking.

Chris jumped in the truck and followed her.  She made it to the corner of our little area and was heading toward the park,  Chris said he pulled up and asked if she wanted a ride and she got in.

I came to practice a few minutes later and when I got there she was waving and signing I love you and was back to being happy.

Of course I will never just let my 7 year old walk to practice by herself.  But, I couldn't help but be proud of her.  She did what she knew she was supposed to do, took care of it herself without being asked and she made a decision and stuck with it.   Those are all the things we are trying to get a across right now. 

Hoping and praying we can guide her though this defiant stage and help her to adjust her attitude and the "I know it already" stance she is taking when we try to talk to her about it. 

Fun times!

Game 3 for the Bears

This should catch me up on Ladybugs games.

Wow.  Nailbitter!  You can say that again.  We won.  But it was a tough game and they worked for everything run they got.  Ladybug hit everytime at bat again and scored one of the runs. 

Rules in our league stipulate that you can not run more than one base unless you hit the ball to the outfield.  They don't want runs being scored on overthrows at first base.  So if it really won't be a double with a bunt, you will only get to first base.  Anyways, we had a girl on second and in the bottom of the fifth our next hitter smacked it into the outfield. She got a double and brought the girl on second home winning the game. 

 Ladybug at bat.

 Another hit.

 Another hit.

 Light as a feather.  Look, she is not touching the ground!

 Ready to go.

 Sic'em Bears!

 And another hit.

 Ready to come home.

 Home!

 Batman found a stick to play with.

Ladybug and our cute neighbor.

Another game coming up this week!

Game two againt the Owls

Another great game for game two.  We lost this one but the girls played hard against a team with bigger and more experienced girls. We held them till the fifth inning and just got tired.  Ladybug put the ball into play everytime she was up at bat and did great.

 Daddy's pep talk before the game.  We are really working hard with her this year but all along we have told her to give 100% the entire time and most importantly have fun. We ran to the bathroom at one point during the game and she looked at me so excitedly and said "I am having the best time!".

Then at the end of the game when they lost, coach went over some stuff with them and how they could improve and how well they had done against a better team.  Then Ladybug pipped in at the end, "but most importantly we had fun".  I am so proud of her attitude.

 Nice scoop...

 And throw to first.

 Going after the ball again.

 She hit the ball at every at bat.

 A little pitchers mound action.

 My new hair.  Lovin it!  Very windblown but you get the idea.

 Batman in a moment of stillness sitting in his chair with his icee. 

 Playing the field.

 Wooooo.  Don't run over third base! By the way that is her coach beside her. 

We are 1 and 1.  Let's see what we do next time!