This spring, Gavin had the opportunity to play tee- ball and Brooks was the assistant coach. Their team practiced a couple of times and then had 16 games in a matter of a few weeks. Whew! This meant for at least 3 nights a week our family was at the baseball fields. Gavin picked right up where he left off last year playing in Saudi and had some great technique and skills! We were pretty impressed! For the most part, Gavin played at the pitchers position or first base. He even got to play short stop and third a few times and did extremely well fielding the ball!! It was fun to watch him improve over time and continue gaining a better understanding of how the game fully works. The teams didn't play with strikes and balls since it was tee ball and depending on the opponents team, sometimes you could get out, and sometimes you could stay on base. No matter what though, if you were your teams last batter then you automatically could run all the bases! Hmmm... We did have a great team and everyone played their hearts out-- wait, who am I kidding... Brooks and the other coach were constantly telling kids to stand up, quit playing in the dirt, watch the ball, ignore the train passing by, etc, etc... but the kids still had fun! Gavin was a little more serious about playing when he was on the field so they were rarely having to get him to focus!
Eventually, Miles was tired of sitting on the bleachers and wanted in the dugout. Before we knew it, he was standing in the field behind Brooks, then tried fielding some balls and making a few plays. By the last 4 or 5 games Miles got to be bat and run the bases! We always got permission from the other teams coach and their players were good sports to cheer Miles on and not get him out! Then... Brooklyn decided she wanted in the dugout with all the players and not sit on the bleachers anymore, but that's as far as we let her get!! Maybe a few more years!
Gavin loved baseball and missed it on his days off! The kids play ball every single day in our back yard and know the fundamentals of baseball so well, they all correct each other and motivate each other to try again!!
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