Day 198: T-Ball In A Nutshell

It's the second baseball season of the year for us, and it's my personal favorite. Fall ball is shorter, so the stakes for wins/losses is higher. The days are getting shorter so most evening games are under the lights, playoffs (last year anyways) are super intense, and there's just a more exciting feel to the whole thing. Plus, Calen got bumped up two divisions to Double-A so now we're playing all-rules baseball, with stealing, bunting, wild pitches and kid pitchers. 

Yee-haw. 

It's also Cam's first fall ball season so that adds double the fun (and chaos). Cam is still playing T-ball but just like spring, the coach pitches 5 overhand throws to the kids to try and get a legitimate hit, and if they can't, they bring out the tee. 

Opening Day was tonight and conveniently (not!!) both boys had games at the same time. At different fields. A mile apart from each other. Soooo I dumped Brad and Calen off at his field and took Cam to his game. 

Here's the thing about T-ball. It's not really baseball at all. It's an adorable, semi-controlled shit show of chaos with bats. 

Who decided to give 12 five year olds metal bats?! At the same time!!

Here's what T-ball really looks like:

Making dirt castles in the infield.

Wearing mitts for hats

Making sand castles at first base

Laughing about wiggling their butts at the people behind them (true story)

Having a dance off with the other team 

Their dance partner leaves so they continue to dance solo while singing a self-written song about "bananas"

Occasionally, they might actually play baseball (nice swing, Cam). 

And there you have it. As parents you really have no control over the circus in front of you, just sit back, eat your sunflower seeds and embrace the chaos for two innings. 

Actually, Cam paid fairly good attention. For a 5 year old. He almost caught a line drive and went 2-2 on hits off the coach-pitcher. 

We made it to Calen's game by the top of the 4th inning so we got to watch the last two innings too. He drew two walks and though he didn't make any defensive plays, he held his own well, considering he's the youngest by WELL over a year, almost two years. 

**Guest tballer Kael (who's also our neighbor and Cam's little kindergarten buddy) is in a few of these pictures. Because chaos is best enjoyed with friends.**

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