The biggest kid of them all...

Well, it's been fun ya'll, but we are done. Stick a fork in us...the boys played an excellent first game today. Their spirits were high, were starting to prank Bart... except they crossed the boundary of "DO NOT MESS WITH MY BED" by filling his bed with gummy worms, and his pillowcase with rocks... and his hat with Gold Bond. So he let the bad man out and scared the crap out of them, called me to come pick him up... and take him to get ammunition of his own.

After a visit to the nearby Family Dollar I dropped him back at the Village armed with shaving cream, saran wrap, glitter fingernail polish, and bright red lipstick.

Game on.

Now at this point in th eday we are supposed to be playing baseball. But see, the Heavens opened up and it started to rain. and not a little rain. A whole freakin lot of rain. and my brand new nice big spiffy bumbershoot was where? In my car. Along with my raincoat. sigh. I"m a moron. Been totong everything but the kitchen sink, and still dont have what I need when I need it...

anyhoo--- after a 3 hour rain delay, we started the 3:00 game at 6:00. I swear to you it was the neverending game. Becasue see.. it never stopped raining. we just started playing in it. and every so often they 'd make us stop and they'd come work on the mounds and the batters boxes and 1st baseline. I kid you not you couldn't even see the bases. we ran through all of our pitching, even my boy got in to pitch and he NEVER pitches... and all this was through the 4th inning! we had 5 pitchers in the 4th. we'd held them up to that point. but starting in the 4th they scored 12 runs on us and put a stop to the bleeding some 3+ hours after it started.

so after the game the boys are all huddled, strangley they are smiling, becasue now, the pressure is off. and it's play time.

Bart see's Nick B whispering to Nick A and reaching into his bat bag. So he positions himself to get a better angle on the attack he knows is coming his way...because see Bart is prolly the biggest kid of the bunch and has been the prime target for these boys... So anyway...as Nick is sneaking around to hit bart with some silly string, Bart turns his 20 Mtn Dew upside down and get's it all spewed up...and as Nick unloads on Bart, Bart retaliates with the sticky drink...then Nick starts running and Bart tackles him. In the mud, and they tumble, rolling throught the biggest mud puddle he could find. About the time Nick B subsides... Nick A jumps in on the action and shoots Bart again, then makes a break for it. Running away. Bart grabbed Nicks belt/shirt, and holds on tight as Nick drags him through the mud. Again. and Nick goes down and they tumble and roll... and they've naturally drawn a crowd...

Then to put the icing on the cake, the boys decided to take one last running dive through the grass at the ball field... and guess who was right there with them? yep you got it. Then they all hoofed it to the dining tent and ate dinner together, covered in mud and grass, soaking wet from head to toe.... One big happy family.