Jake's 1st ever BASEBALL game!

Jake has been waiting YEARS - no kidding - to play real baseball. He has been so excited. Jaxon has been playing for 7 years and Josh has been playing for 3 (around there anyway). And, this year, they have both been playing for a month or so. So, he has been ready and waiting. Everyday he would ask if he had practice, so Jared would take him to the park and play catch. This did not trick Jake though, he finally started asking if he had "real" baseball practice. Finally, he did. And, now a real game. He could barely contain himself, as you can tell in these pictures.  He is a "Muckdog," which I think is great because he is red and easily visible from the parking lot.  I don't ask for much, just a little color. :)

He and a couple friends on the team decided they would be SUPER-cool & give the peace sign, so every time I looked at him this is what he would do.  (Too bad he only likes the idea of the peace sign, I would take it if it were his attitude - however, he likes lots of guns, swords, wrestling, fighting and normal boy stuff, not really peace.)

As you can see, he is already looking quite professional.  He has the pants, shirt, matching belt and socks, cleats, bat, batting gloves, and helmet.  (Actually, I bought the belt and socks, we only had blue, LOTS of blue, so I was going to get red.  Then, I thought, RED?  I better go black.  We don't want any part of S. Sevier here! :))  Oh, and I love the facial expression - priceless!

He had a great time running bases.  And, he hit 2 home runs!, he hits at least 2 about every game.

Wow!, these games are more exhausting than you would think.  Time for a break at the pitcher's mound.  Good thing there are 10 other boys running all around him after every ball so he can just relax and enjoy a front-row seat of his own game.

BASEBALL - ya gotta LOVE it!