This spring/summer the boys signed up for tee-ball, Rick's heart flipped a beat. Because of the boys being 6 months apart they were in different leagues. Anson was in coached pitched and Aaron was in tee-ball, huge differences between the two. Aaron was the oldest on his team and loved going to everything from practices to games. Because every kid hit off a tee the games were looooonnggg.
Anson on the other hand was one of the smallest and it made it very difficult to pitch the ball in his tiny strike zone. For Anson's league each kid was pitched 6 balls and there were no strikes. They just had to hit one or they were out, so it was pretty hard for Anson. At the beginning of the season both boys were going strong and I bounced between them in practices and games. About half way through Anson was discouraged and it was a long last half of the season. I heard him once say he like baseball and his favorite position was on the bench. But had an excellent coach, who spent half of each practice helping him and the other half with him doing a drill right by his side.
Amazingly we had 8 of the 10 games at the same time at the same complex so we could go from one game to the next depending on who was playing or at bat or just stand between the two fields and watch both. It really helped not having 2 practices and 1 game for each boy at different times during the week.
It was a busy season but when the season was over it was bitter sweet. Aaron loved every minute of his team and even Anson was disappointed his team didn't continue on in their playoffs. Go Mud Hens (Aaron) and Cubs (Anson)!
