Just a shout out to my amazing 9 year old son!!!! He played baseball again this year and was drafted onto the upper level teams. He then played on a GREAT team with some really talented kids and held his own. He was the only 9 year old on a team of 10 year olds. His batting average was .462, he had 28 stolen bases, 12 RBIs and was tied for first with the fewest strike outs. As per last year, he was catcher much of the time and always worked so hard behind the plate. He made some awesome throws to get kids out trying to steal bases. I love it! He also got to play left field and played good defense there as well. In one of the last games of the season he went 4 for 4 and hit in the game winning RBI after almost three hours of play (the game kept going on and on because we kept tying up the score) It was awesome! They finished baseball on Saturday winning first place in the play- offs. We elected not to play All Stars this year so that we could actually have a summer vacation, so we are done- it seems VERY strange since we have always played until altleast June.

In any case, my cute (and getting quite tall) Justin keeps asking me about babies and each of the kids as a baby...ie what I liked to eat while pregnant, who was the cutest, calmest, etc. I finally had to say, "Justin, you were the worst baby of all four. You cried and cried, and until you were about 4 years old I wasn't sure if I was going to make it." He looked sorry, and little devastated. But I continued and said that since then he has been the best boy a mom could ever ask for- school, church, sports, helping me, taking care of his younger siblings, etc, etc, etc. And that is no lie!!! I love you Justin!