This morning, our team was the home team, so Dave went out to rake the field at 7:10 am. He took Brandon with him, while I worked on getting Peyton ready. We had stayed out a bit late last night, so she was a bit sluggish. I fed her breakfast, and got her out to the field to warm up with Dave by 745 am. However, Dave was still working on the field, so she ended up going to play on the structure with Brandon. She ended up getting some condensation on her clothes, and she was distracted when the other team arrived. The other parents helped out with the finishing touches, and Peyton’s team arrived at 815 am. The girls seemed more content playing on the structure rather than warming up. I finally pulled Peyton off the structure, and she headed to get herself in the game. I was told she’d be lead off batter the first inning and home run hitter the second. She was in the field first, and got to play pitcher, her favorite position. She’s been wanting to softball pitch for awhile, but at this stage, she’s just fielding, not pitching. She was a little tentative with her fielding, and tried to bare hand her fielding a bit, but she was doing okay. She got quite a few balls that first inning, as most of the shots were right up the middle. After the side had batted around, the Stingrays came off the field to bat. When I asked her what was going on with the bare handed fielding and why she wasn’t using her glove, and that she should get her glove “dirty”, she balked! She was hesitant to do so saying she didn’t want to get it dirty! I told her that’s why her glove was brown, so it would hide the dirt. I told her that’s what she’s SUPPOSED to do to field.
She was happy to be first up to bat. I walked over to the other side to film her at-bat. She had two big strikes, but connected with the third.
After her team batted around, she was put in left field. This wasn’t enough to keep her attention, though she did get a ball hit out to her, which she got her glove dirty to field and threw to first. She was homerun hitter for this inning
, and then in right field for the final inning. By now, the girls were all melting in the warming sun. They were looking a bit worn out. One player left for a Girl Scouts event (Coach’s daughter). Last at bat:
After the final at bat, the team huddled up and gave a cheer for the other team. They gave hi fives, then had their snack. We took off to go to Brandon’s game. They were playing Dave’s former head coach’s team, so we were familiar with his kids and some of the players on his team. Brandon was playing pitcher, too!
We got to see one at-bat for Brandon. I had to go into the opposite team’s area (second time today!) to capture this
A 2-RBI single!
We were able to stay for about 30 minutes, then we had to go to event #3 of the morning, Peyton’s friend’s birthday party. Luckily, all of our events were within 3 miles of one another. Peyton changed in the car, and we headed to the cooking place! The kids were going to make lasagne in honor of the birthday girl. This was a trial run for the place, since they had never done it before, according to Orion’s mom. Peyton was one of the first few guests to arrive, and she said hi to Orion and gave her her present. She adjusted well, found a chef’s hat to decorate, washed her hands, all with O and her friends. Sydney arrived, and I asked her dad what they did between softball and the party. Syd still had her softball ribbon in her hair! They went shopping for the gift. The girls sat next to each other, and soon the party got started. I had checked in with Peyton to see if I could go back to Brandon’s game, and she told me, “No, stay with me!” She totally didn’t need me, but I enjoyed staying to take pictures. Half of the girls grated zucchini, while Peyton and the other girls cut up the fresh herbs with scissors. Then, they changed jobs, but one of the girls had grated her finger, so I hovered close to her when she grated up the squash she had. She stopped before it was too grated, and I was relieved there was not an injury for her. The other girl was hyper-ventilating at the sight of blood, and her mom had to calm her down. I didn’t want to look at her either, as I didn’t want to see blood! They moved on to cut out the pasta. They used a round cutter to make their bottom two layers, then a scalloped one for the top. She even made a hidden Mickey with her circles. The zucchini went into the cheese sauce, and was one of the layers, along with marinara sauce. The lasagne went in to bake, while the girls decorated cupcakes. Peyton picked a chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting. After they were all done with decorating, they still had 8 minutes left to go for baking. The girls were told to wait for the lasagne first, then eat the cupcakes. They played a game of Pictionary while their cupcakes sat just a few inches from their noses. I was commenting how if the party were all boys, the cupcakes would be demolished. I know that would be the case if it was Brandon, for sure! The girls didn’t pick at the cupcakes; they didn’t even touch them! After the game, they were served their individual lasagnes. The adults were each offered a spoonful to taste the one the teacher made. It was yummy! I’d been snacking on fruit, veggies and nuts that the host provided, and passed on the brie 🙁 I guess I got a little cheese, but I wanted to see what it tasted like, but didn’t want Peyton’s “love” in my food, so I didn’t try hers. I don’t like zucchini (Peyton doesn’t either), but it was so incorporated in the lasagne, it was hard to tell! She declined sausage, so it was a veggie lasagne. She ate her whole mini pie tin, and then had some green beans, and fruit. The host passed around chips, and of course, Peyton didn’t decline those! Finally, Peyton got to enjoy her cupcake, and even got a coffee jellybean and was GIDDY! They played some more games, though she and Sydney were taking their time, savoring their cupcakes. We thanked our guests and took home a favor for Brandon, too. We got home in two minutes, and it was nap time for both of us. Luckily, Brandon and Dave were heading out, since they had errands to run for his friend party tomorrow. Peyton woke up after about an hour, and came down to cuddle. Brandon and Dave returned by this time, and we practiced piano before heading down to event #4. We arrived just as the Chang’s had, and Bonnie was already there. The Kao’s were headed down shortly behind us, as I’d texted on the way down. The boys were coming prepared with Beyblades to “battle”. Brandon prepared two for Marcus’ birthday that he customized. He handed them to him, then told him they were old. I need to talk to Brandon about tact! They did this for a bit while the Pham twins arrived. At some point, Brandon started to eat, and eat, and eat! Peyton wasn’t interested at first, then after awhile, she joined the eating party. She ate one taco, then had chips, as she saw Brandon eating them. Brandon helped himself after awhile, and found the fruit and cheese inside. Dave took Peyton across the street to the park to play, while Brandon was hanging out with the boys inside. It was much easier to hang out and chat when the two were separated. They returned after awhile, and she told me she got hit with the ball on the chin. She said it hurt her ear to chew. I asked her if she cried, and she said she did. Poor baby. Dave told me that Brandon got hit recently in the chest and popped up to his chin and cried. I’m glad I don’t have to see it. It would make me cringe for sure, since both don’t tend to cry in public for something like that unless they are really hurt. Brandon more than Peyton. Luckily, she recovered and continued to play with Dave. She came back for fruit, and playing with the kids. Finally, cake was being served. Brandon was handed a huge piece, and since he’d already had a donut earlier in the day. He dutifully scraped off the frosting, then I caught him dipping his fork in the frosting and reaching up to his mouth. I was still watching and asked him what he was doing. He motioned back to continue to scrape his fork. I told him to share half with his sister. He ate the upper half of the cake, then some of the second part before handing it over to his sister. I didn’t think he ‘heard’ me to share with her. And she didn’t complain either, and ate her strawberries and portion of the remaining cake. She’d had dessert already, too, so she was done after that. She threw her plate away and headed back to play. At this point, things were a little bit more frenetic since they were all sugared up. We let them stay a little longer, and we all headed out about the same time. It was easier to leave with someone else, since the kids didn’t feel like they were missing out on anything. We said a happy birthday again to T, and we were given more treats on the way out. Peyton showered up, even more so because she was rolling around on grass, and they were both in bed by 8 pm. PHEW…here are the pictures:
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