T-Ball that is! Last night was Jackson's first T-ball game and he had a blast. I'm hoping that he sticks with it better than he did the soccer that we just finished up! We have 14 kids on our team so the "innings" were kind of long, it was fun to watch these kids because they were all playing for the first time. Some started running the wrong way, some couldn't really hit the ball and others could already slide into home plate! In the video below you can see how Jackson attempted to slide, it's more of a jump & fall....he tried though! We have 2 girls on our team, 1 of which is bigger than most of the boys! Somehow we always get stuck not getting a real mascot....in soccer we were the Crew, now we are just JR Ball (Contracting)....we don't even get a dog or a beaver on our hats, just some letters! Oh well, there will be plenty of time for that in the future! It was quite a chore last night because Chad is the coach so he was on the field with the kids, Gray was running around with his dirt bike toy playing in the dirt, up and down the bleachers. Harrison of course was not going to sit in the stroller so I was having to keep him from running onto the field, up the bleachers, into the concrete "hand ball" court.....it was fun but tiring. Jackson had a bathroom emergency in the middle of the inning, thank goodness he was in the dugout and not on the field, I had to practically run across the ballpark, pushing H & G in the double stroller across the mud, hoping that I didn't fall on my hynie, all the while PRAYING that Jackson made it to the potty, he had to go #2! The fact that he was running with his hand on his bottom as if he were holding it in was not comforting. We made it though and then 20 minutes later I had to take G back! Why don't they ever have to go at the same time? We are having a BEAUTIFUL week so far here in NWA, I think it's going to hit 80 today! We have another game on Thursday so maybe I can get something planned so I'm not running all over the ball-park! Hope everyone's having a great week! Here are some pics from last night.
Concentrating during pre-game practice
Good hit, first try!
After the game, running off the field...(wrong setting so pic is blurry!)
It all started on April 14th, 2005. Chad, Jackson and I were hanging out at the house after work that day. Chad and I decided we wanted to make taco's for dinner but we didn't have all the fixin's so Chad headed out to the grocery store, which was like 5 minutes away. The ONE time in his life that he should have grabbed his phone and he left it at home! So Jackson and I were playing in the LR, I was sitting on the couch, on the very edge and jackson came running up to my very pregnant belly and kind of bounced off of it, that along with my position on the couch was just enough to break my water! It's so funny looking back now what a panic I was in, you know how they say that each labor will be faster than the one before, well the one before was like 21 hours so I shouldn't have expected anything soon but I started to freak because Chad wasn't home. I called my parents, his mom...I called my friend Melissa because she had volunteered to watch Jackson when this happened. I think by the time Chad got home,everyone but him knew! By the time we got on our way to the hospital it was about an hour after my water broke...I started having some pretty intense contractions. The hospital was about 30 minutes from our house and I remember telling Chad that I wasn't going to make it, he had to drive faster, so we're flying down the interstate with our lights flashing, no telling how fast we were going, it's amazing that we didn't get pulled over. So once we get to the hospital the nurse is like "okay, we have to test you to make sure your water DID break", another nurse walks behind me and says, "put her in a room, her water broke all right"...I had been riding with a towel between my legs and another under me and by the time we got to the hospital they were both soaked. One thing for you to remember if you haven't had a baby yet...if your water breaks, as apposed to "leaks", it will make a mess! Oh, I forgot to mention that I had just been in for my check up that same day and was like 1 cm. The dr was expecting to have to induce me the next week. So, after all the hullabaloo that goes on, I got comfy with my epidural, mind you I was going to try to do without one but after a few hours when they told me I was only at 3cm, I knew I wasn't going to make it. All the next morning I was having major back labor and could feel everything so the anesthesiologist came in to readjust my epidural. It didn't help much, I was still hurting really bad. When it was finally time to push the dr checked me...the reason I was having such pain was because Gray was turned face up with the back of his head on my backbone. The dr also discovered that in the past 17 hours ...yes, that's right, 17hrs Gray had flipped himself and was breech and face up. If anyone uses Willow Creek then you probably know Dr Seal, tiny lady...thank God for that because with those tiny little hands she was able to turn Gray to position him head down! After an hour of pushing our little Grayson Conor was born on April 15th at 12:19pm! 
Speaking of the hubs, he just took on a new responsibility of coaching Jackson's T-Ball team! We have our first practice this week but J won't be there...he and G are going to stay with Gigi and Papa for a few days while Gigi's on Spring Break. 
