Baseball

Sam has a deep love for baseball. It has been long enough now, that I can't remember when this started, but I think it was this spring when he started seeing little boys playing baseball at the YMCA. Every Saturday morning in April and May we went to the YMCA for swim lessons with Sam's friend Oliver. After swim lessons, Oliver and Sam would go outside to play on the playground. It wasn't too long until we found Sam looking like this:

This lead to Sam wanting to play baseball almost every afternoon and talking almost every adult in the neighborhood into playing with him. We did our best to find him an appropriate tee that didn't break (don't buy baseball tees from Target, they are crummy). Most afternoons in April and May at our house looked something like this:

Finally, on Memorial Day weekend, Sam got to attend a real baseball game with his Mom Mom and Grandpa Ed. We knew this would be a big event in his life. After all, Chase Utley and Ryan Howard were going to be there, his two favorite players. He had been talking about it for weeks. We really didn't know how he would handle watching the game though (even the strongest supporters of baseball acknowledge that the game is kind of slow for kids). Well, Sam absolutely loved it, and he did not move from his seat for almost the entire game (including post game Beach Boys concert). Yep, he sat in his seat for almost 4 hours. Here are some pictures of his first game that he remembers: