As baseball season is winding down in the US, it’s just beginning here. Usually baseball means new cleats, broken in leather gloves, and the smell of freshly mown grass in the air.
Welcome to the baseball “field.”
It was dusty, hot and humid, and the sweat turned the dust to mud on our skin.
All three boys had tryouts over the weekend — not because anyone was going to be cut, but to make the teams as even as possible. Caleb played well enough that they moved him from the younger age bracket to the league with both of his brothers.
And this is where they’ll be playing
Warming up
The luscious green grass in the background is the new artificial turf soccer field. Too bad we can’t use it for baseball while we wait for spring (soccer season).
At the end of tryouts we found out that all 3 boys would be on the same team — crazy age span (8 year olds playing with 13 year olds?). I’m actually pretty happy about it because yay for less driving and yay for being able to cheer for all 3 boys at the same time. I’m sure it will never happen again so I’m going to enjoy it while I can. There aren’t enough kids here to have more than two teams so they kept things simple and put all siblings on the same team (God bless them!).
I’m hot and dirty and I’ve had enough! Time to go!