2010 Baseball Season

This summer is going by so fast.  Luke’s regular baseball season ended this past week.  All he has left is the championship tournament beginning on Tuesday.

He has had a pretty good year.  His team has gone through lots of ups and downs, but overall he has learned a lot.  His hitting has really improved, and he’s at the age that fielding the ball is starting to make sense to him and his team.  It makes for a much more interesting game to watch when they can actually make some outs!  🙂

The other four kids have enjoyed attending all of the games.  In the slideshow for this entry, I put in some pictures of how they spend their gametimes:  keeping score, playing with the “baseball dog” (a dog that lives near the fields that comes out to play with the kids every night), and enjoying sunflower seeds and pop.

It’s a good thing that we have a year to think about Luke’s baseball for next year.  Next year he’d technically be old enough to move up to the boys’ fast pitch league, but we’re not too crazy about that league.  It includes kids all the way from those entering 4th grade to those entering 8th grade, and that is just too big of an age range.  The 8th graders are always the pitchers which can be a little intimidating and even scary for the younger boys.  We might see if he can stay in this league another year.  They divide the ages by birthdays, and I think we have a legitimate inquiry on it.  Luke’s birthday is in April, but he really wasn’t supposed to be born until July which would put him in this league for another year.  And his physical skills development really sticks closer to being a summer rather than a spring baby.  We’ll see.  It sure would be nice not to put him in with those older boys yet.

My days have been spent sorting through my messy, messy basement.  My hand-me-down clothes boxes had gotten so out of control that they were almost hazardous just to walk by!  So, I have been going through all of those, resorting, restacking, etc.  I have several boxes of stuff to give away, and it’s always nice to see some stuff leave my piles!  🙂  School is really creeping up on me–I need to start preparing for that in earnest soon.

The insurance adjuster came by to inspect our house for hail damage today.  He says that the roof needs replaced without question, and that it’ll all be covered less our $500 deductible.  So, praise God for that!  The inspector also found damage on some our window screens and our guttering, and that’ll be covered as well.  I guess it’ll even cover the roof on our little shed, so that is just great! We’ve had several companies give estimates, but it looks like the lowest estimate is actually coming from a local business.  So, we are glad that all of that is working out as well.  There is so much hail damage around our neighborhood–who knows how long it’ll be before they’ll be able to get to us?! It’s all OK, though.  We are just so thankful that everything is working out.

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