T-ball
I'm WAY behind on blogging about Juliette's adventures in t-ball this past spring/early summer. She had about sixteen games between early April and early June and almost all of them were on Mondays and Wednesdays. She had dance on Wednesdays, so there were some games that she had to miss (because they were at the same time as dance) and some that we had to change clothes in the parking lot for. (Thankfully, there were only two or three of those, as those were quite busy evenings!)
The league that we played with (in Lafayette, you have to play in the league you are zoned for) was not very organized AT ALL. Although t-ball is supposed to be for fun and teaching them some of the basics of the game, it was a little frustrating (to me) to not have any rules. It seemed almost too laid back sometimes. Regardless of my deep desire to have some rules, though, Juliette was still cute to watch and toward the end she was even able to hit the ball some when the coach pitched it to her. (They started out the season with the tee but moved to coach pitch later.) By the time the season was ending, she was over it and wasn't as interested in playing. I think this had more to do with the fact that she is a homebody and doesn't like having to go a lot of places during the week and less to do with her liking t-ball.
This was her first game. There was a shortage on gray pants in our town, so we had to wait a few weeks to get them, which is why she is in gray shorts here.
This was her first game in her "proper" attire. I didn't realize until after I took the picture that she had her glove on the wrong hand. (She's left handed. We had to yell for her to change her glove to the other hand quite a bit when she was in the field for games.)
Here is a short video of Juliette batting off the tee one time. She never tried to run the wrong way, but some of them did in the first few games. The funniest moments she had was that one time she was "playing" catcher, and they threw the ball to her, but she was just standing there fixing her hair and looking elsewhere. And then she didn't even get in a hurry to get it when she was paying attention. Another moment was when she was playing with love bugs (they were really bad at the beginning of the season) and she had two on her hand and was trying to pick up a ball in the field without making them fly away. (That really didn't work out!) Oh, and at first when she played third base, she thought you should keep your foot on the base at all times, so when runners would come to third base, she was trying to push their feet off the base. :)
Here is another really short video. She told us that she was going to slide in at home, so I took a video just in case she really did. She didn't, but when we got her after the game, she said that was a slide. (That was more like a hesitation while thinking about sliding!) I have to say, she NEVER got dirty, even with a white shirt!
This is her "official" t-ball picture.
She says that she wants to try other sports and not play t-ball next year, but we will see how that works out. Matt and I REALLY want her to play softball, so hopefully she'll come back around next spring!
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