Well this year Dillon started T-Ball. It sure seems early in his life for him to start T-Ball, but here in Kent they can start playing the year prior to them beginning kindergarten. It has been somewhat entertaining to go to his practices and seeing a bunch of 4-year olds trying to comprehend and learn the complex game of baseball. Dillon has had 4 practices now and today his Jamboree and I would confidently say that Dillon has no idea what is going on :-) To help him polish up on his T-ball skills we went to Big 5 and purchased him a T-ball with a practice bat and ball. We've been practicing in our back yard from time to time. When he's with me, he will swing hard and hits the ball well, but when he's at practice all that I have taught him seems to disappear.
Today they had his first "game"...well it was really a Jamboree where they played one inning where everybody hit the ball once and played in the field. It was quite hilarious. At any given moment, 5 of the 12 players on Dillon's team would be playing in the dirt in some form or another. Dillon informed me after the game that he was "building sand castles".
The best play of the game (and by best I mean the funniest) was the last play of the game. Dillon's team, the Skysox, were in the outfield. The kid on the other team hit a hard ball into the outfield. Everyone on Dillon's team then proceeded to chase after the ball into the outfield leaving their positions vacant. There was one little boy who stayed in the infield playing in the dirt which just so happened to be Dillon. Finally after a wrestle in the outfield someone got the ball and threw it to Dillon. Dillon was still playing in the sand and didn't even notice when the throw came in and bounced right over his head. He was more concerned about his sand castles.
Well, I guess I have a lot more to teach Dillon about baseball!
