Baseball Birthday

To celebrate Barrett’s second birthday we gathered together a small group and went swimming and to a Rangers baseball game. He had so much fun doing both of those that I think he would love to do it all again. Of course he loves to swim and jump off the diving board, and just plain be wet. Who knew a kid could love the water so much? Besides being very hot, the Rangers game was a lot of fun. They have a kids park where the kids can go and play games be giving away tokens and usually win a prize for participation at he age. His favorite game was the one where you could hit a ball pitched to you and then you won a bat if you hit the ball. Well Bear waited until it was almost the end of the day to go and play and he came back with a bat. He was so proud of himself. Isabelle had lots of fun playing all the games and came home with a whole bunch of prizes, that she can hardly wait to put up in her room. They did watch the game and went to batting practice, but were a little late to see the Rangers bat, but Bear was able to get the General Managers autograph on a ticket. Ben was pretty excited about that one.

The game was pretty fun too! It started out good for the Rangers then went downhill a little bit but they started to make a come back in the 8th inning. It was pretty close, since I think they had to come back from being seven runs down in two innings. They almost made it, but the ump made what looked like a bogus out in the bottom of the ninth for the last out of the game. The Rangers ended up losing 7 to 9 against the Chicago White Sox, but it was entertaining and fun. At least after the sun went down behind the stadium and it cooled off a bit.

Ben was really happy to share his favorite baseball team with his two kids. This was Barrett’s first major league baseball game, and I’m sure he will have many more to come. Especially if Dad has anything to say about it.