"favorite Aunt"status.
I love the chance i get to support them in what they are doing--and i love the chance i get to "hang" with them--and maybe even catch them on film.
I did have my camera with me--and they were kind enough to let me sit on second base and take this picture of my niece in right field
"YOOOHOOOO
--Hey look at me--
I want a picture of your face--
Am i embarrassing you?"
I promised to stay out of the way--kinda like the ump
--but this one almost hit me--
"HEY--not so close next time"
--remember i am sitting here--
"what?"
"just because you are a base runner you think you can take over the base?" Honestly--i was just sitting there cuz i didn't want to get my pants dirty.
"OK fine you can stand on that corner i am not using..."
"Hey sweetie--don't chew on your glove--
I will give you some gum when we go back to the dugout"
--"What?"--
"Am I being distracting out here?"
"You want me to sit back in the stands?"
FINE!!!
--this is me stomping off--
only i can't take a picture of myself doing that
"UMMM coach--I just want to apologize for my Aunt,
--I didn't know she would be here today"
"Although she did give up her spoon so i didn't have to eat my salad like a rabbit--leaving her spoonless to eat her chili" (OK i added that part--she didn't really say that--although she should have since that really did happen--I always wonder what they say in those little huddles)
"Please coach can you make her stay in the stands--and maybe put some duct tape over her mouth so she can't say anything to embarrass me?"(not that i would ever do that)
"As much as i would like to do that Ry--we forgot to bring the duct tape with us--plus we need to keep her somewhat happy so she will drive us home safely..." Girl in the middle was saying "I like your aunt--she makes me laugh"
--"Yah--
she really is funny...
when you are not the one related to her...."
So here i am sitting in the stands watching her bat
--or bundt or bunt
since bundt is a cake
and she was not making a cake
--she also was not bunting...
attempting but not executing
and then a swing and a miss--
which scared the pitcher--
so she decided to hit my niece with the next pitch--
THUMP
she took it like a girl who has three brothers
--TOUGH I SAY--
just like her aunt who also has three brothers--
but i would have curled up in a ball and cried and made the girl feel sufficiently bad and then jumped up and said
"JUST KIDDING"
because i am just that kind of girl.
I show this picture just to show you that she was OK after being hit by the ball--and to reflect on the score--SHE is the only hope of scoring
think how much better a picture this would have been--if only i was not sitting behind the fence--maybe i can stand behind the Ump--or perhaps the first base coach?
She is off--
somewhere along the line i think she slide
--but i missed it--
maybe it was my obscured view...
Here she is on second
--right where i had been sitting--
think of the closeup i could have gotten if i had still been there....
(my mean spirited niece)
I think she kicked dirt over the base just to make sure that i would not return to sit there again
look at the speed on that girl...
i think she was visualizing running away from her Aunt
She did make it to third--aren't you glad i was there to document it? That indeed there was a bright spot--be it ever so minor--in the game?
This is where her base running ended
--and the game shortly there after...
I have the feeling it is going to be a
L---O---N---G
season
I also had the Varsity boys baseball on my bus (can you believe co-mingling of sports?--say it isn't so...) The girls game got over early enough that i was able to watch some of the baseball game--which involved a young man i have known since birth. It is fun to support your friends kids....their game faired much better and they walked away with a win....
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