Attack of the Sickies!

It looks like sickness has attacked our house. Both of the boys are in bed right now, and there is a coughing duet going on in my house. Nathan was very mellow over the weekend, which is usually a sign he's getting sick. Matthew was fine this weekend, but now he's coughing too. He had baseball practice tonight, so we spent an hour in the park. I doubt being in the cold air helped either of them. Of course, it is still 53 degrees right now, so it probably wasn't too bad. Matthew really had to go to practice though. He hadn't been able to have one yet. He was supposed to practice a week ago Sunday and that got rained out. Then, he was supposed to practice last Friday evening, and that got rained out too! (Really, we are still having a drought here, really!) So, Saturday his coach got them together for some work in the batting cages. Yes, we have batting cages at our park. They're really just a fenced in area with netting. My $200 for baseball at work, I guess. He's made a lot of improvement over last year. His league is called t-ball, but each at bat starts with the coach pitching to them. After six pitches, then they hit off of the tee. It's helping them get ready for the next level where the coach will only pitch to them. Nathan's league just uses the tee. His league is the one where they don't keep score either. Matthew's league keeps score and has an end of the year tournament as well as all stars. Whew! Anyway, last year Matthew did a lot of hitting off of the tee and very little hitting of pitched balls. This year, it looks like he's doing much better hitting pitches. I realized though that he is really young for this league. Their cut off date is April 30th, so last year he was probably one of the youngest players on the team. This year, you can see the way that he has matured. Nathan's doing a lot better too. He's had two practices so far, and we haven't had any meltdowns yet! He's doing great with listening to his coach and waiting his turn. We also haven't had any fits when someone else gets to the ball before him. Maybe baseball will work out. I tried really hard to convince him that soccer was more his style, but he had none of it. He kept insisting that he wanted to play baseball. I guess he was right.