Team Apollo

Hayden is done with T-ball. He had a great season and loved every minute of it. He was so proud to have a uniform, and loved it when Sage had gymnastics before his games because then he would get to wear the uniform to the gym and Coach Brett would tell him how cool he looked. Hayden has pretty much lived for baseball the past few months. He practices hitting and pitching when he gets home from school, then meets the big boys as they come up the hill for a little game of baseball in our yard and waits for Heath to get home for some catch. We had a couple games of backyard baseball before my back got really bad and it was as close to Heaven as this little boy could imagine. We love his enthusiasm.
He loved playing on Team Apollo. He had a ton of really cute teammates. His buddy Cooper from our neighborhood was on his team, and he quickly made friends with all the other kids. One of the kids he really seemed to connect with was Claire. They loved to race each other to the parking lot after each game and loved to play catch with each other during warm ups. One day he came home from school so excited he could hardly talk (yeah, that's huge!) He had seen Claire at school!
Sage also formed a cute little friendship with the older brother of one of the kids on Hayden's team. Tad is in 1st or 2nd grade, but he was always so kind to Sage and they became buddies.
At the end of the season we had a little ice cream party and the kids all got trophies-cute bobble head ones. The coaches said a little about each kid as they handed them out. When they got to Hayden, Coach Mike said, "if I had a golden glove award to give out, this kid would definetly get it!" Hayden didn't really know what that meant, but was pretty proud anyway.