Opening Day and the "Cardinals" at Coors Field!

These posts are in reverse order - read the second half first!

Isaac's baseball league got to walk the warning track of the Rockies baseball field at the Tampa Bay game so we made it into a family field trip with Mayensi and Grandma joining us.  Coach Jeff and Bill escorted the kids on the field and worked very hard to keep them off the grass per field rules.

After showing the name of the leagues, (Isaac is Monarch) they showed pics of the kids walking - it was so much fun to see Isaac up there. Maybe again someday... :)

Pre-walk, the Coaches and kids were super-excited

The Cardinals waiving to their fans up in the stands

Isaac getting busted for violating the "no running on the field" rule :)

Mayensi and I keeping Caitlin entertained (and well fed!)

Grandma came too and spoiled the kids with lots of Rockies gear and funnel cake!

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Isaac started playing t-ball for the Monarch Youth Baseball league and is loving it.  He and Bill have been practicing hitting and catching (the hitting is definitely going better than the catching) and Bill agreed to serve as Assistant Coach for the team, which is super-cute.  Opening day for the season was a community-wide event with every local business sponsoring the teams and hundreds of families in attendance along with the Dairy Queen and Rockies' mascots! They introduced each of the big-kid teams individually, and then when it was time for the t-ball kids, all of the older kids lined up and gave a high-five to each of the little ones - the little ones felt so important! Isaac's team is the Cardinals, he's number 1 (alphabetical).

Isaac's team lining up for high-fives with the big kids

Coach Daddy and Isaac 

Caitlin felt a little left out of the festivities, so she was thrilled to get to hug the Rockies mascot

The focus of the games is to get the kids comfortable with the game and to teach them how to hit and catch, not so much about the strategy and competition, much to Bill's chagrin.  After the first practice he came home and asked me when the kids would actually learn how to play baseball :)  Each game has miraculously ended up a tie with each kid hitting a home run and no one getting out (possibly as a result  of the fact that the kids in the outfield are piling dirt in their gloves) but they are really cute to watch.