Baseball and bye bye baby teeth

Well we haven't had alot going on lately but our lives are about to get alot more busy. Well they already are busy but the kids have started baseball and so they are having games and practices and then plus any extra activities that they have. Well it is really just Madison that has extra activities and next year I am going to have to tell her to stop signing up for things before she talks to me about them. So anyway be expecting more baseball pictures in the near future.

I am going to start off with Zach. Zach has had a loose tooth for a while now and just in about the last month it has gotten alot more loose and he has been trying really hard to get it out. Well last week he has been wanting to pull it out. I didn't think that it was quite ready but Zach insisted that it was ready to come out. I tried and I told him that I didn't think that it was he didn't like that so he talked to Larry when he got home and well you will see what happened in the pictures.

This is Zach before his tooth came out.

So Larry didn't have any luck getting it out with his fingers and so he told Zach that he would get the leatherman out and they could try it that way. Zach didn't like that idea at first but Larry told him that he wouldn't make it hurt and he told Zach that if he wanted to he could do it himself, so this is Zach grabbing the leatherman trying to pull out his tooth. Well it didn't work, because I don't think it was ready, and Larry just told Zach to keep on wiggling it with his tongue and that it would get looser. So that is what he did............. And today at lunch he push it with his tongue and it just came out. He was so excited that it came out and he put it in his hand and then it fell on the floor of the gym and he couldn't find it because in Zach's words "there were alot of white things on the floor I couldn't find my tooth". So basically it matched the floor. I am just glad he didn't get on the ground and look for it. So he lost his first tooth and the one next to it is actually pretty loose too and he is so excited about it.

Now we are into baseball season. This is Madison's first year playing and I think that she really enjoys it. Madison had her first game on Tuesday and I was really nervous because alot of the girls on her team have played in years past, but she is doing good she just has not be afraid of the ball but it is hard to not be afraid of the ball when so far this season she has been hit three times and two of those times were in practice.

This happened on Wednesday at practice. I don't like to see my girl get hurt but we have told the kids that when playing sports that they could get hurt and they are getting tougher, which is nice.

She was catching a pop fly and it hit her right in the chin. She thinks it looks like a smiley face and she got some attention from the boys today, they thought it was pretty cool.

Don't worry this not an inapropriate photo this is Madison's side. On her game on Tuesday she was playing catcher and the team they played against was really really really good and this year they are doing kid pitch instead of machine pitch and the pitchers were really good, well they are actually calling it fast pitch. So anyway she was playing catcher and the ball came and missed her gear and hit her in the side. I felt so bad I was standing right by the fence and she came over and was crying and it took everything for me to not go around and go hug her and tell her it was going to be o.k. Larry was standing right beside me and he just told her that she would be o.k and to tuff it out and in my words to Larry I said "she just got hit with the ball it probably really hurt". He said that he understood but that she has to learn that playing a sport things like this can happen. I just felt so bad for her she was standing on the other side of the fence crying. The coach came over and asked if they needed to get someone else in to take her place and she said no and went back to catching. I am so proud that she just didn't want stop and she kept on going. And Larry is right they have to learn that playing sports they can get hurt, but so far she has some wounds to show. She sure does like playing sports though.

Madison practicing before her game.

Waiting to bat.

It was so cold that day that when her team was up to bad she would go and sit down next to Larry and put a blanket around her to warm up.

Madison's team out on the field.

I would have taken more pictures but my camera died. Madison has a game on Saturday and Zach has first game on Saturday as well so I will have to make sure that the camera is fully charged for that.