Another Owlz Game

My husband's friend had given us tickets for Saturday's game awhile back. Last time we went the boys couldn't get any autographs from the players. My husband found out from calling, you can go to batting practice at 5:30 and the kids can take any of the balls hit over the fence.

Joslyn with Hootz

We also discovered the players will give your kids autographs before the game and be very polite.

The kids waiting for autographs, Ty talking to

one of the players

My Tyler is usually very shy and will not talk to anyone. My oldest Don will talk to anyone. Not this night. The roles were very reversed. Tyler was going to get the players autographs. He likes one of the players named Tyler Mann, since they have the same name. He waited all night to get his autograph.

Ty about falling in the dugout

He was one of the last players to come out and Tyler was hanging out over the dugout watching for him. When he came out he started yelling "Tyler Mann," several times. One of the other players had taken Tyler's ball for him and sat it in the dugout for Mann to sign. He couldn't find it so he went out on the field to find the player and ask where his ball was. He asked Tyler if he wanted to have the other players in the dugout sign the ball too. He was very cute with our son. I loved how sweet the players were to our kids.

Tyler Mann

Tyler Mann getting Ty's ball signed for him

Tyler so proud of his signed baseball that he got

from batting practice

They made a definite fan out of me and my kids.

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

My husband has a friend that has season tickets to the Owlz games. His tickets are right behind home plate on the first row. Not that there is a bad seat there anyway. He gave us his tickets on Monday and since our daughter wasn't home we took the boy's.

They are learning a lot more about baseball, and they loved it. Our oldest sat and told me the rules the whole time as if I didn't understand what was going on. It was fun to see how much they got into it.

Son's First Triple

My oldest got his mom's coordination genes and that has not been to his advantage in the sports area.

This year he is in the baseball league where they are being pitched to by other boys.

We work with him batting and catching every night. (He has me for a partner and pitcher which isn't the best.)

He struck out his last 2 games and was feeling very frustrated.

He has a good coach that has helped him and he is improving a lot though.

His game Friday night his grandparent's and his friend came to watch so he was feeling pressured.

He struck out his first time up to bat and was feeling a little down. His second time up he had 2 strikes and one ball, but on the third ball he hit it clear into outfield. He got to first base and realized he could keep going, got to second and noticed the ball still wasn't in and decided to go to third.

I haven't seen him or his coach that excited all season. I wish I would have had my camera that night. He felt pretty proud of himself. It was a good confidence booster for him too. He came home and said,"the coach of the other team was even cheering for me mom."