Monday, June 2, 2008

Texas A&M Baseball Regional

Greg, Doug, Dave, Landon and I all went down to College Station for the A&M Baseball regional. We left Friday morning to get down there in time to eat at Freebirds and go to the first game at 12:30pm. The teams playing were A&M, Dallas Baptist, Houston and University of Illinois Chicago.

There were two games Friday, and Landon did pretty well. He didn't get much of a nap in but slept about an hour at the game, and then we stayed out past his bedtime because the A&M game wasn't over until after 10pm.

At one of the games Landon and I were taking a walk by the Umpire room, and someone walked out and asked Landon if he was a baseball fan. We said yes of course, and so the man went in and brought out an official ball for Landon. We were pretty excited. Landon and Daddy played some catch as you can see in the picture.

Saturday we got up and had Texas shaped waffles, and then we met my mom in Navasota which is about half way from College Station to my Aunt and Uncle's house in Montgomery/Conroe. The family was having a birthday celebration that night for one of my cousins Gary and my Uncle Jim. Landon and I took about a two and a half hour nap that afternoon to get us ready for the party. Landon had a great time. He enjoyed playing with his 4 year old twin cousins Haley and Ashlyn. He also seemed to remember most everyone, and enjoyed hanging out with them.

Landon was still pretty tired even with the nap and so he wanted to watch his new movie and hold his blanket most of the day. We again stayed up until almost 11pm. Of course Saturday and Sunday mornings he woke up about 7am which he never does. He usually sleeps from 9pm til 8 or 8:30am.

Sunday morning we met Greg again back in Navasota and we went back to College Station for more baseball games. Landon fell asleep on the way back to College Station. A&M had won Friday and Saturday night so they could have ended the regional to move on to the super regional if they won Sunday night. A&M ended up losing the Sunday night game which meant that they had to play again on Monday night. Because we all needed to be back in Dallas on Tuesday we drove back to Dallas late Monday after the game. A&M luckily won the Monday game, and then we got home about 2am. Needless to say we are still tired. Landon luckily has gotten some long naps in, but Greg and I still need some more sleep.

Landon was funny on the trip. He kept saying Hi Doug, Hi Dave repeatedly. He likes the guys a lot. At A&M games they do several things like if a pitcher has pitched four balls, everyone says ball 5 over and over. If the ball boy or someone in the stands doesn't catch a foul ball everyone say Eeeeeee. By the end of the last game Landon was starting to get into this. He was also helping to call if the next pitch would be a strike or a ball.