Last Ballgame as a 7 Year Old!!

While Hayden was getting ready to go the park tonight to play ball, I reminded him that he needed to have lots of fun but play some serious baseball because as games go this would be his last one as a 7 year old. He looked at me so funny at first and then being Hayden wanted to know if I had told him when he played his last game as a 6 year old. Well nope I sure did not. In fact if his birthday was not so darn close I probably would not have even thought about it. But that birthday is sooooo close. He left it all out there on the field tonight which was too fun to watch. He had a couple of lapses in concentration baserunning but hey he is just 7!!! He made the first fielding out of the game playing second base, scored the first and last runs of the game. (Okay technically the last run did not count but he looked so good sliding into home, this Momma is counting in the memory book). He even got a line drive (which his Momma did not get a photo of ...well...because he so often drops those ....oops not supposed to tell that, huh?) and had a big fit when he had to go play right field. Hmmm, gotta work on that. In fact, recognizing that his Momma might not have been too proud of that little tantrum, he said on the way home, "Mommie (this is what we say when we know we are REALLY in trouble), I should never think I am too good to play right field and I should be more a team player, right?" Ya think?

As for batting....he went 4 for 4 - (maybe two of them were errors but...well he IS 7 and they were hard hit balls so yep 4 for 4) - three singles and a triple.

So I think that as his 7th year winds down -- he did just want he wanted to do ...he went out had fun and played some good baseball.

Tomorrow I am taking him to make some last photos as my 7 year old baby...