Play Ball!

Today was Carter's first T-ball game.  It was also his first practice (before the game).  The best way to sum up the events was organized chaos.  Well, maybe even disorganized chaos at times.  It's absolutely what we expected.  A bunch of 3 year olds in huge jerseys and ballcaps with oversized gloves running from home, to first, to home and then third and then out to the bleachers to say hi to their parents.  It was so cute. 

Carters' team is the Reds.  Which is perfect since we have tons of red in our wardrobes to show our support.  Plus his jersey is white so it won't be so hot come June. Thankfully Mom and Dad came to show their support, as I needed the help.  Mom had the camera most of the time, I had the video camera, Brian had Carter, and the best assignment of all was that Dad had Cole.  Cole is such an explorer, they were everywhere and having Dad entertain him allowed me to get footage of it all.  So without further ado ...

During practice before the game Cole kept trying to get in on the action.  It won't be long and he'll be out there too. 

Here is Carter learning to "trap" a ball with his glove. 

Carter takes the infield.  They never hit to the third base side during this inning.  So we moved next time.

And here he is at his first "at bat."  He's actually a decent hitter with his bat and tee at home.  The YMCA officials were showing the kids how to hit the ball, and I thought it was totally ridiculous that they would line up the ball to the bat for them.  Because 2 seconds afterwards, the kids would pull the bat down and swing it.  We only played two full innings during our 45 minute game.  The individual instruction took awhile.  Hopefully the actual coaches will do more of that in the future :)

We all thought the boys (and a few girls) looked like Bobble Heads.  Those helmets were ginormous!

After Carter made it to first from his hit, he waited for the next player to get a hit.  He subsquently ran towards the ball at the pitchers circle instead of second base.  It was hilarious.  You can see Brian jumping in the backgroud trying to get him to run to second.  I caught it on video.  And yes, the footage you will see isn't all that great.  It was looking at Carter instead of the LCD screen on the camcorder and got a bunch of legs and kids I don't know. 

Brian and I switched up in the second inning.  I played chaperone to Carter while he was defending the pitchers circle.  He actually fielded the ball well, he just was so confused as to who to throw it to.  Here he is running towards the ball.

We're in our Battle Red after the game.  Cole was literally in left field at this moment with Grandpa.  Maybe a family shot next game.

And now that you've basically had a play by play of the game.  Here's the footage of Carter's first at bat.  To be fair, I did cut out his first two swings (and tee hits) not because he missed, but because I was complaining about the officials trying to "help" Carter swing.  I didn't want to post that :)