Baseball

Hey everybody! This is the last baseball news of the year. Gavin's team played in a couple of tournaments. They had a rough time. They somehow got into a "Super-League" tournament (super league is like the best of the all-stars). They really struggled with that. Gavin, personally, had a pretty good last game. He played center field and caught 6 fly balls! They only played 4 innings, so he was responsible for 1/2 of the outs for the game. It was really cool. He was also one of 2 kids who actually made it to first base safely. (He got out at 2nd. I'm not sure when the other kid got out, but he didn't make it home.) We were really proud of him. He did a great job and always did the best that he could. He pitched for a few games. That's his favorite. Center field can be kind of boring (though it clearly wasn't boring in that last game!) Here are a couple of pictures, look carefully and you can see the ball about to land in his mitt for the 6th catch.

I am stressing about finals, especially Chemistry. I will be done after August 5th and then I start up again on August 20th. 

You guys could start posting stuff here you know...

All Star

I have to brag about my totally AWESOME All-Star, Gavin. The team played a double header on Saturday. Gavin pitched the majority of the first game and pitched NO balls. Meaning that they were either perfect strikes or the batter swung at them. He had a great pitching game, not so great on the batting end. He struck out 3 times in a row and for each of those he didn't swing at the final strike. I don't think there is anything worse for a baseball player than to strike out because you didn't swing. (Okay, that wasn't bragging, I realize, but it makes the next part better.) They won that game by a landslide. I'm not going to get into the second game on Saturday because we lost by a landslide. But, we had a really great game last night. Gavin was the starting pitcher, he walked a few kids, but still did a great job. He had two great hits and scored 2 of our 4 runs. He played 2nd base for the second half of the game and made a really cool double play. He caught a line drive and immediately threw the ball to 3rd base for another out. I love it when he does cool stuff like that! I know that I am normally not a big (or even a little) sports fan, but watching your own kids play and succeed is totally different and I am kind of a crazy fan. 

On a side note, I dissected a cow's eyeball today. It was really squishy and cool! Last week we dissected a sheep's brain.