Keeping Up With the Kilgos: 1st T-ball Game

Sunday, March 25, 2012

1st T-ball Game

Our main goal of signing Kross up for t-ball was for him to be around more kids since he doesn't go to daycare (and he and Krew are the only two at Nana's). We were not expecting alot since he is probably the youngest and definitely the smallest on the team. The coach is great and very patient. I was really worried about this game since he's only had one practice with the team since the other two were rained out. He now refuses to practice with Daddy at home. Luckily everything is really laid back because these are 3-5 year olds. If you want to see something funny, go to one of these games! It's hilarious and my child pretty much stole the show! And those are in the words of another mom whose son is on the team (and who was also my ninth grade cheer coach!). I never would have thought back then that we would have kids on the same t-ball team!

So to start off the morning, I was running late. Krew was napping and I didn't have any of his stuff together to leave when we needed to, so we took two cars. Then I "thought" I locked my keys in the car. I had opened and shut the doors several times and was trying to get everything out that I needed along with a heavy baby. I had trouble getting him in the Baby Bjorn and that's when I started sweating. Once I had him in, I just shut the door. I thought the keys were in the diaper bag but when I searched it, I couldn't find them. I knew I had to have set them on the floorboard of the passenger's side since that's where we were trying to situate ourselves. I had my mom search the bag too and she couldn't find them. We went back to the car to try to get in it and she decided to check the door. It was not locked, but there was no key in the car. Come to find out, the one key was in the diaper bag (hiding)! Oops. That was my blonde moment of the day.

Highlights of the game:

Kross' first time at bat - he was rounding the bases and Daddy was running in front of him. They rounded 2nd base and Daddy turned around and started running backwards to see if Kross was still running behind him. Well, Kross saw him and turned around and started running backwards (as in back peddling) to 3rd base. One lady started yelling,"He's doing the moonwalk!"
His second time at bat - he hit the ball (about 5 feet) and instead of running to first base he ran to the ball to pick it up! All of the other kids on the other team also ran to the ball as well and everyone laughed.
On the field he threw his hat and glove down over and over and over again and played with the dirt. Obviously that's way more fun than watching for the ball to come to you!
In the dugout there were some kids that were hitting each other with their gloves and they were sitting right next to Kross. He told his Daddy, "If they don't stop hitting, I'm gonna FIGHT them!"

This was priceless fun. One little boy refused to bat and just threw the bat down every time they tried to get him to hit. They finally said he was out...and they don't call anyone out because these are little bittys.