Last Saturday was Opening Day for Micah’s second season of baseball. Our league has a carnival on opening day with game booths run by some of the teams in the league. Micah & Caleb enjoyed jumping in the bounce house and playing Plinko, a baseball card concentration/memory match game, baseball toss through the hoop game, a coin toss game, and another baseball throwing game, and getting candy and pencils for prizes.
After the carnival it was time for Micah’s game. He is in a coach pitch/t-ball division this year with 4-6 year-olds. As each batter comes up he/she can choose to use the tee or try to hit from their coach pitching to them. If they choose coach pitch and miss 4 times, they get to hit off the tee. So they always get to hit and run. They are also learning to be “baseball ready” and field the ball and throw it to first base to try to get an out. Micah is happy to have two of his best friends from church on his team this year, Nate and Sean. Sean’s dad, Mr. McIntosh, is their coach, or Coach Mac as they sometimes call him. There are 3-4 other dads that help with coaching as well. We have practice once a week on Friday afternoons and a game every Saturday. The league is a ministry of our church, so we like that there are no Sunday games and they keep the whole atmosphere very positive and encouraging for the kids. The league does baseball in the spring and soccer in the fall. We’ll see if Micah wants to try soccer this coming fall. Caleb can’t wait to play t-ball/baseball too; he’ll get to start next year when he turns 4. He’ll be ready since he loves to practice hitting, throwing, catching, and running with Mommy on the side of Micah’s practices and games. It’s exciting to see all the kids learn and improve so much over the season.
Here’s a picture of Caleb and Micah in his new uniform; his team is the Dodgers. Daddy says we can root for Micah’s Dodgers team, but not the real Dodgers since they are of course the Padres’ rivals.