Practice makes Perfect

And it was quite obvious that Riley hasn't practiced much when her team had it's first practice today. She did OK, though, just needs to start paying more attention to the ball than she does to the dirt! She was SO excited to have practice today. Practice was at 3:00, right in the middle of her normal naptime. She napped early today, but by the end of the hour, she was ready to go home! She didn't even notice that most of the other girls had pink gloves. I can't find a pink one because I waited too late and they're all sold out. Mimi says she MUST have one, so she wants me to order one from ebay and let her pay for it. The things a Mimi will do to make her baby happy :)




She took a liking to her coach, Coach Billy. She seemed to want to follow him around the whole hour. Some of the other kiddos on her team are Haddyn, Parker, Audrey, Alexa (Riley's cousin!), and a few others. Some were missing today, but there seem to be only two boys on the team.















I knew the day could turn out to be quite comical, but I'm sure the whole park heard me laughing at Riley when, after she batted, she ran after the ball. She wanted it back!! She's not as aggressive as most of the kids, so she didn't seem to want to run after the ball much when she was playing in the field. She got her feelings hurt a time or two when one of the other girls grabbed the ball up before she got a chance to get it herself. Most of the girls must be "older 4s" because they're quite a bit bigger than R. Her cousin, Alexa, is 3 months older than she and is about the same size.

She was pretty pooped by the time practice was over, but said she had a good time. She said she was sad that her Daddy wasn't there, but Mommy took lots of pics and video for him to see! She went home with Mimi. We're all going to a fundraiser tonight in Caraway, so we'll meet up with them later.