Batter Up!

Wednesday 12th August

The kids had come home with paperwork to join in the local "batter up" program... it's a 3 week program to let the kids try out softball without having to commit to a complete season ....  The kids still had swimming lessons first, so we had to do that, then rush off from the end of swimming lessons to get down to softball... and it did make for a long evening....

They were each given a glove, a ball and a backpack.....

Next thing we know... Blake's decided to put Jade's name on her ball... it was so sweet and he had all of the right intentions... but Jade didn't see it that way, she was so upset that he'd drawn on her ball....

It was a really good try at writing neatly on her ball (even though the J was backwards)

I fixed the ball and put Blake's name on it...

and coloured over where he'd drawn her name.....  

Jade then claimed ownership of Blake's ball and put her name on it.....

At the end of it all everyone was happy.....

After doing the program, I wasn't able to convince the kids to sign up for Softball... I had hoped that the kids had found their summer sport.... we'll keep trying different sports until we find something....