T-ball

We signed Liv up for T-ball.  She was excited about the sound of it, but I wasn't expecting her to love it too much.  She tends to love more active things, and there is a lot of standing around in T-ball.  Her absolute favorite thing thus far about the sport, is the treat and drink she gets after games.  She also really likes to hit the ball and run the bases. 


The majority of her outfield time is spent playing in the dirt.  And usually while waiting on a base she grabs handfuls of dirt and sprinkles them down the base line as she runs to the next base like it's magic fairy dust or something.  The spectators all get a kick out of that.  And she is usually wearing a skirt with her baseball T-shirt and often a sparkly belt to cinch in the shirt.  That's our girl playing T-ball.  The whole thing drives Derek batty who agreed she could play T-ball as long as I didn't sign him up to coach.  But, then his good buddy from HS that he grew up playing baseball with ended up as the coach and he roped Derek into assisting.  This T-ball team is one all-star T-ball team let me tell you.  Most all of the boys don't actually hit off the tee.  They slam it far into the outfield from a coach pitch.  I can't say that I've seen any other team coaches pitching to their T-ball players.  And Jason, their coach, makes them run the length of the huge outfield before games, and warm up, and actually try to throw the ball as if to get a player out during the game.  We have practice and a game every week, I would wager that no other teams practice at all.  In general, there are no rules for T-ball.  Each player on the team bats till they hit it out of the box, they run one base, and it continues until each player has had a chance to bat and then the teams switch places.  In the outfield the whole team runs towards every ball and fights over who get to pick it up and throw it.  My favorite thing happened the first game.  Liv's team was outfield and the other team had a player on first.  When his teammate hit the ball the player on first ran to retrieve the ball along with all of Liv's team instead of running to second.  Hilarious!  There are no outs.  The game continues until it's been about an hour. 

Hopefully, for Derek's sake the boys take a slightly greater interest in the sport.  For now, the love to play with all her gear. 


The boys and I usually go play at the park near Liv's practice field I caught them holding hands walking up the hill from the T-ball field one day.  So cute! 
This is at one of her games, they spent the majority of the game wrestling each other on this cement pad and then paused for a hug.  Love these cute brothers!