Alligators and T-Ball

At the park

Getting ready to bat

This morning, Sean and I went to the playground at Tickfaw State Park in Springfield. It's not too far from our house and the country roads are beautiful. We played at the park for a little bit, then, we went on a nature trail. I had seen a sign about alligators, so I told Sean that we would look for some. Instead, he bent down and found a caterpillar and even said the word, right. We think he learned this at school or from the Wonder Pets cartoon :). He started to touch it and got mad at me when I made him stop, because I think caterpillars sting? After this, I told him we would go where I saw the sign about alligators. We looked in the water and didn't see any. Well, this led to him crying in the car, "I want to see alligator" over and over and over. I told him that we were going to the zoo next week and he would see one, but he wanted to go to the zoo today. I had an inkling that nap time was coming and I was right. We came home and he slept for 2 hours!

Then, we got ready for his first t-ball game. We got there early, as I usually do and waited for Kenny to get there along with the rest of his team. When we were walking in Sean was talking about tractors and 4 wheelers. I think he thought that we were at the strawberry patch. Then, he said what I thought was "shirley", but it turned out that he was saying, "Coach Hurley", who I had told him would be his coach. So, we're not too sure where the tractors fit in. The boys and a few girls, I might add, joined their daddies in the outfield and practiced catching a ball. I don't think any of them caught any, but they were having fun. I laughed watching all of them, piling on top of the ball after it was batted and no one wanted to throw the ball to the bases, because it was their ball. Kenny and I had fun watching our baby play his first team sport!