Seth's Coach Pitch

 

Seth's coach pitch season came to an end.  He loved every moment of it, even in the record breaking heat of this year.

Seth started Coach Pitch

 

Seth was curious about baseball and all the other kids got to play a year or two, so I signed Seth up for Coach Pitch.  It just to happens to be a record high heat year for June... the other day was 107 degrees. He still loves it and wants us to come to all his games.  He's a pretty decent hitter.  He hits the ball the majority of the time, but he's still working on the catching skill.  By his second game, he had all the rules worked out.  It's been super cute.

He found Sam's old hat in the closet and insisted on wearing it instead of his team yellow hat.  His coach was his soccer coach and he's thrilled to see him again.  So am I.  He's been a great coach for all our kids (except Ada... she's older than his oldest kid).

Tball and coach pitch

This girl has been loving tball.  I'll try to download the video that my sister took of Evelyn and two friends giving each other high fives.  She keeps track of how many time she gets the ball during the games, and even has fought some of the teammates for it.  She kept leaving when she was on second base so that she could be the one to get the ball.  The coach finally took her by the shoulders, marched her over to the base and put her there.  It was pretty funny.

Sam is a great hitter.  He LOVES to hit and takes me to practice catching at the park.  Most of his hits would be doubles if they played that way.  It's not until machine pitch that they start playing by real baseball rules.

Saturday

Saturday brought the return of baseball to our house.  We asked Ada to let Evelyn have a turn playing this time... and Evelyn couldn't be more excited.  She says that now that she's 5, she gets to do things like Karate.  Saturday morning, Jer ran the Utah Valley Marathon.  Let me say, I have an amazingly goal oriented and determined husband.  Even though I kept him from running full marathons while we had our very clingy 4th baby, he trained consistently and put in all the work to be able to do it again.  Unfortunately, he was supposed to be coming in about the same time as our kids were supposed to be at coach pitch and Tball games... so we cheered from afar.  I told all the kids when I got the race text saying he'd come in.... Ada said, "I thought it was 29 miles!"  Sam likes baseball.  And he'd rather play well than look good.  We couldn't find his mit, but instead of using Dad's which is too big and bulky, he chose to use Ada's.  He said, "I don't care if they make fun of me, just if I don't catch the ball."  We got there when it was pouring and got pretty wet, but the kids didn't mind.  They had fun being in the rain.  I was trying desperately to finish Sam's quilt that I was making for his birthday... so Ada took pictures for Sam's game and Sam took pictures at Evelyn's.

I loved looking at the pictures after to see what the kids had taken.  Among them were about 30 of Evelyn with this kid in front of her.... and he was standing in a different pose on one foot in every one of them.

I finally finished and gave him his birthday quilt.  Sam has read the first two Harry Potter books and was Harry Potter for Halloween last year.  I've never made my own patterns before, but the one and only pattern online that I could follow had things like the Dark Mark on it.... I didn't think that was appropriate for my soon to be 7 year old... so I made my own.  It was hard the first couple blocks, but once I got the idea of it... I enjoyed making my own patterns.  I gave it to him this morning and he LOVED it.  He rolled up in it and kept giving me hugs.

Weekend

Seth discovered that he likes Oreos

Ada, Evelyn, Seis and Leilei enjoyed a backyard tea party

Ada did her homework in style

Sam and Ada sang at the UVU vs Grand Canyon baseball game with their school.  It was fun, but it started raining during the 5th inning and we left.

This kid loved the people, the sounds and the sights.

These two buddies both like food... a lot.

This pretty much sums up our Saturday.  Ada and Adam wrestled and ran through the wind with big and colorful umbrellas. Sam, Evelyn, Joey, Rachel and Josh wanted to take turns on the computers and tablets around the house.  Josh gave me big hugs and told me to be nice when I sarcastically said, "Dumb Jeremy." (I was telling a story about how Sam used to use "Oh Jeremy" as his swear word because that's what Jer says to himself when he's frustrated.  I don't call my husband dumb. He's anything but.)