Fall Ball

Baseball this Fall has been a great experience for the boys.  This year they were on the same team, and that was so much easier for us!!  Mason has begged to be on a team with Carson and sweet Carson has tried to show him everything he needed to know.  He has been a neat to watch them learn and grow together.  It is always very heart-warming to see the patience that comes from Carson.

This was our first experience with Fall Ball, and I have to admit that it was a wonderful learning experience.  The purpose was much more focused on learning the necessary skills and having fun while they learn.  Anyone that knows me knows that I am competitive.  However, I want kids to have more fun than anything. I want my boys to look back and remember the good experiences in their childhood.Several times this season, Carson has said "it is not always about the win, it is more about how you get there that matters."  Of course, a win is nice but we all want to just do our best.  Right, moma?"  Um, yeah...I think he got the idea.

Our boys had a great group of coaches.  They were always so patient and kind(this moma bear gets very angry and very impatient with adults that do not know how to talk to children).  I never experienced that once with this group.  I saw other coaches yelling at kids and those kids hang their heads in disappointment.  That seems so ridiculous to me in the little leagues of America.  The single most impressive thing that these coaches did with our boys was pray.  Yep, they prayed with the team before each game.  They also prayed before we had pizza at the team party!!

Carson has grown and changed and matured right before our eyes.  He has such a baseball build about him now and he is so excited to be 70lbs now!!  As for Mason, he has also grown and matured and told us 20+ times that he hates playing the out field and only wants to play on the pitcher's mound.  He was a little discouraged when it came to hitting off the pitching machine during a game.  He could hit off of it at practice and at home, but he struggled during game time.  We tried to continue to praise him as much as possible.  And, he always did a good job of shaking it off.  I could tell by the look in his eyes that he really wanted to prove that he could hit the ball.  Honestly, I doubted our decision a little.  He still has another year of tee ball, but he begged to play with Carson.  Should we have allowed it??  Well, I think we will doubt our decisions as parents sometimes but it did not hurt him.  He wanted to play with Carson and was always excited to at game time. And, we talked with him about it and he said "well, I could just quit."  And, then we discussed joined a team and always finishing, never giving up.  He looked at us and said "then, I need to stick with it."  So, he got the idea as well. 

Good learning experiences, fun times with 10 little boys, great memories!!

Play ball!!