30 Days of Updates Day 14

Austin has switched baseball teams. We have been frustrated w/ his team and the coaching for the past two years and decided that it was time to part ways before we lost friendships that I so much wanted to keep. We had been talking to another team prior to our big tournament in Kansas City (will write about that in another update) and learned that they had an opening. Austin played in a few tournaments with them when our season with the Bulldogs was done, and they offered him a spot on the team. So in the spring he is going to be a Slugger. We are excited about the move for him, but I am so going to miss baseball games with the family that we made with his last team.

The Sluggers didn't play fall ball as most of those kids play football, so Austin played for another team whose coach used to be on the Bulldogs, as well as some of the players. So he (we) got to reconnect with some friends we hadn't seen in a while. One of the kids on the fall team was his very first little best friend from daycare. Austin and Cole were inseparable their first 4 years of life at daycare, getting into trouble (mostly for throwing balls or anything they could throw) and tormenting their teachers. We have seen Cole around the baseball/basketball world a few times since, and his mom and I would always take their picture together but the boys were shy and never really said much to each other. It was nice for them to get to get to know each other again on and off the ball field. I am hoping we can play with that team again as a pick up player here and there so we can stay in touch.

On a side note, at one of their games we also saw one of their old day care workers whose son plays baseball. She was amazed of course at how big the boys had gotten, but mostly at how much hair Austin had. She remembered him bald...for the first 3 years of his life.