And So it Begins...

The craziness is about to begin. Next Monday to be exact. Bubba has piano at 3:30 pm. Peanut has his final swimming lesson at 5 pm, which is a make-up from his teacher being sick. Bubba also has his first practice that night at 5. Fortunately B has offered to be an assistant coach this year so he can take him. We'll have our same coach because his son is also on our football team so we know him well and so B offered to help because the boy of the guy who helped last year chose to do lacrosse this year. B is a little wary because he doesn't feel like he knows enough to coach, but I keep telling him that he's fabulous because hello he's taught our boys to play great. He says he just doesn't know how to coach the kids while they're on the field-like when to tell them to run or stay or whatever. I think he'll do great.

I'm pretty sure that JP and Peanut will both be on Tues./Thurs. so we'll just switch off watching games like we did with the big boys this year. At least the big boys games are on opposite nights so we can both be at them. They're more exciting than a 6 yr. old t-ball game. Those are frustrating because when you have a 6 yr. old that can crack a ball into the outfield and he's playing on a team with kids picking daisies in the grass. We didn't feel like he was old enough to play up this year though because he doesn't have all the hand-eye coordination to catch well. JP is playing up this year. We know his coach from church and asked him to try to get him so he would have friends on the team, but also because we were worried he would be drafted up to AAA (what Bubba plays). You see, they have assessments where each boy hits three balls from a pitching machine, fields three balls infield, and then catches two pop flies in the outfield. JP rocked everything and we were worried he would be snatched up to the next level. We feel like he still needs to work on catching more before he's ready for that. We were also worried that Bubba would be drafted up to Majors (which is big kids up to 13). So luckily because B is helping coach they could put a coach's hold on him, which means no one else can take him. Our coach told us that a few of the Majors coaches had wanted him after his assessments, so phew. B was unsure of it all, but I told him that this would be good because he'll be one of the best kids on the team instead of lower on the totem poll with the bigger kids.

Anyway, I'm sure this is all a bunch of gibberish to most of you, but any way it gives me a chance to brag about my outstanding athletes. ;)