This season, Elijah decided to try baseball. For now, we're encouraging Elijah to play some sport each season. Team sports seem to be a good balance for our cerebral boy. At first, Scott and I were a little skeptical about Elijah's choice. We weren't sure if he really wanted to learn a new sport -- he'd just learned soccer. But, it looks like Elijah made a good choice. He's much more interested in baseball. Ever since he got the game ball (more on that later) he wants to practice baseball every chance he gets. He's still nervous when he bats at the games, but his skill set seems to be more suited to baseball. When he's not nervous, he has great hand/eye coordination for batting and he's made some good plays in the outfield. We've all been enjoying baseball quite a bit (not the least of whom is Dendi who couldn't be happier -- she's a baseball fanatic!) Our first night of real baseball excitement was opening night.
Besides being opening night, it was more importantly the first time he put on his uniform. I don't think there's anything cuter than a little baseball uniform! When I was going back over these pictures Elijah was looking over my shoulder. When I labeled this first picture in my notes as Elijah with a serious baseball player expression, he corrected me and told me he was pretending to be Captain Barnacles from Octonauts. Apparently, Keira is pretending to be Quasi from Octonauts, too. Octonauts is Elijah's favorite show on Disney Jr., and besides Toy Story 3 it has been his favorite thing to watch all summer. Here are our little Octonauts.
I love that he's on the Athletics, I think his authentic-looking uniform, of the team I grew up with, makes me love seeing him in uniform even more. I continued to snap away on the camera, determined to get a few pictures of our baseball player smiling.
After putting on their uniforms for the first time, all of the teams lined up to march into the stadium. Each team had a sign to hold. After waiting a while, Elijah ended up holding the sign as they marched in with their team.
Elijah got to choose his number, sort of. Daddy called to ask him what number he was interested in when he was signing Elijah up for baseball. Elijah told Daddy that he wanted the biggest number he could get, as his favorite number is 1,000. Of course, the only options were two digit numbers, so 99 was it.
Once they marched into the stadium, Elijah stood with the sign and his team for the ceremony.
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