Bees Vs. Thunder

Tonight's game was a bit boring. It's pretty bad when the assistant coach of the other team tells the coach of the other team that he's doing a great job pitching a no hitter. They got one kid on base all night, and that was only because of an error of the kid playing pitcher. Brantley had a great game, despite choking on the chance for a grand slam. He actually had 2 chances for a grand slam. The first one he had what looked like an awesome hit but it didn't stay fair. If it had, it would have been a grand slam. That of course broke his rhythm and he struck out. The second chance, he had a great hit and got 2 RBIs but only got to first base because the kid on first wasn't running. He should have at least gotten to second. He ended the game with 3 hits for 5 bases (a triple and 2 base hits). He also got 3 RBIs and fielded 3 outs.

Gum....Hair....you see where I'm going here?

A couple weeks ago Brantley wanted some gum at bed time. I told him no. My exact words were,"If you go to bed chewing gum, you will either choke on it or wake up with it in your hair."

Fast forward to the past few days.....Picture day is this Wednesday. I had noticed that Brantley's hair was looking pretty shabby in the front. Not unusual because he's hair can be quite unruly. I knew he needed to get a haircut before picture day. So, today after I picked him up we went to Sport Clips, Brantley's hair salon of choice. We usually get the same girl to cut his hair except for the time that Lawson took him. He ended up with a bad haircut that time, but I digress.

The girl was cutting away at his hair and she got to the front and looked perplexed. She asked, "Has he cut his hair?" Hmmm....I got up and looked. It was the section that I had noticed was looking real shabby, but when she pulled up the top it looked pretty obvious that it had been cut. I asked him several times if he cut it and he kept saying no. I even asked if any of the little girls at school had been trying to give him a haircut which embarrassed him and he said very loudly NO! That made both the stylists laugh. She continued on and said she would try to blend it in.

Then, she started combing the back and said what is this. I looked and we decided it was a little bit of gum. I asked Brantley again, this time very specifically, "Did you get gum in your hair and cut it out?" He finally admitted to it and we all started laughing. He was embarrassed and thought I was going to be mad. The stylist told him, next time to let me know. Peanut butter really does get gum out of hair! I'm guessing there won't be a next time though. I asked if he remembered what I had told him and he said he did. Mom was right, huh?

Music

Just so you all know, Lawson says that I have ruined Brantley's taste in music. Can I help it if he knows what he likes? Anyway, can anyone guess which one of the songs on the player is his favorite?

Enjoy the music!

I added a playlist to the side. Hopefully it works for everyone. I just picked a couple of his current favorites to put on it. It's funny when we are in the car and I start flipping stations. Brantley is always asking me to go back because he likes a song.

School Progress Reports

Brantley's progress report came home today. So far, he has all As and one B. Surprisingly, even to Brantley, the B is in Math. He grabbed the report from my hand and said, "What?!?!? I'm good in Math!" Then he threw himself on the couch. So dramatic. I think he's probably a lot like me when it comes to school work. I was bad to make careless mistakes. When things are easy, you tend to just speed through them and not double check anything. He still has time to get that B up to an A. Go Brantley! Let's get straight As on your first real report card!

Bees Vs. Bats

It would be hard for Brantley to have a repeat game like Thursday, be he still had a great game. Unofficially, they won 16 to 6. Brantley had 5 at bats - 1 triple and 4 base hits. He fielded 3 outs playing first base. He lost his confidence to bat left at the last practice before the season started. He couldn't hit anything off the coach, including batting right. We tried to get him to bat left his last at bat but during this game, but he wouldn't do it. Maybe we'll get him to try at some point this season. We're still practicing both when we do soft toss in the driveway and he does just fine. Today, he decided to get out the wooden bat and use it for practice. He actually did a good job swinging it. I'm not sure how heavy it is in comparison to his little league bat, but I'm sure it's a lot heavier.

It's time for Fall Baseball!

This season Brantley's team is the Burlington Bees. This is the first Fall season where they have actually had team names instead of just team numbers. I like the uniforms. They have yellow (gold) shirts with very dark blue numbers. The hats are dark blue with yellow bills and bees on them. I'll take a picture Saturday to post.

Tonight was the first game of the season and Brantley started it off right. I was a little worried because he seemed to be struggling with batting in practice. It must be the pitching because another dad pitched tonight and he did just fine. We practiced for about an hour last night and his fielding was impressive. Another dad was there last night and he pitched to Brantley and his batting still seemed a little off last night.

Brantley was second in the batting order, after Carson. In the first inning, Brantley hit a nice ground ball between 1st and 2nd base getting him to first base. He played 2nd base in the bottom of the first. Brantley connected with Carson for the 4-3 out.

The batting order didn't come back around for Brantley to bat in the second inning. He played 2nd base again and again connected with Carson for the 4-3 out.

Top of the third, Brantley hit another base hit, this time with an RBI. Bottom of the third and fourth innings he played in the pitcher position. Once in both innings, he connected with Alex for the 1-3 out. He did get to bat in the fourth, but hit a fly out to the Short Stop.

Top of the fifth, another base hit with an RBI. He played 3rd base and got a ground out at third.

I'm starting to sound like a broken record. Top of the sixth, base hit with an RBI. He played first base and got a ground out. The other 2 outs for the inning were strike outs.

The unofficial score was Bees 18, Muckdogs 3. Brantley had 4 at bats, 3 hits, 3 bases, 3 RBIs, and 6 fielded outs. What a game! Oh, and he got the first game ball of the season. Very deserving I think!

Sox Weekend

I guess Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer. I'm actually kinda ready for it to be Fall. Brantley celebrated the end of summer by going to Chicago with Lawson to take in not one, but two baseball games. They went to see the Red Sox at the White Sox. The weekend was actually Adrian's parents idea. They are big Red Sox fans. Since Brantley's baseball team was the Red Sox a while back, he actually had a Red Sox hat to wear, however I think that looks like a new White Sox jersey he's wearing. Hmmm. (Sorry about the picture quality. Lawson sent these to me with his phone.)

Don't worry about me though. I actually did plenty of fun stuff this weekend. Of course, had it not been for my good friend Roger, I'd probably just sat on the couch all weekend watching movies and eating popcorn. I went to see the movie Inglorious Basterds (not sure of the significance of spelling it with an e instead of an a). It was surprisingly good and I'd recommend seeing it. Definitely not a kid friendly movie though. I also got to go see Wicked at TPAC. Also very good and recommendable. And of course, I had to get some shopping in. Today, I'm trying to get the house cleaned up a little. I've made some progress, but it's really hard to get motivated.