A Long Day (night) for the Wright Family

After a long day with Parker in my care, the radio station doing a phone blitz, and a baseball game and concert for Joseph tonight, we had a long day.

We started with Joseph's baseball game at 5:30. We had to leave the game early. When we left Joseph's team was down 4-0. We later found out that they lost 7-0. Their first loss of the season. They're now 2-1. Joseph was 0-1 with a strike out and one ball fielded. The other team's pitcher struck out the side in the first three innings. I was told by another parent after the game that our team only had one player reach base. In 9-10 year Little League, pitchers are only allowed to pitch six innings per week. The other team let their best pitcher pitch six innings tonight. Apparently, he's the best in this age group and our team is considered to be the best coached, so they brought their best player to the mound with the only goal of shutting our team down. And it worked.

While the game was going on, Kallsen seemed to enjoy watching his brother play ball.

Parker, after being sick the last two days, was feeling better but we still kept him bundled up...
We left the ball field at 6:30 to drive over to the school for Joseph's 4th grade concert. Joseph sang and played the bongo drums. I was really impressed with his school's fourth grade music program. Lots of schools don't get the children interested in more that singing at this early of an age. Hopefully, the schools in Estherville will have similar programs.

The thing that interested me is Joseph had talked about singing but he never mentioned playing the bongo drums. I wonder if he wanted to surprise us or if he just didn't give it much thought. It's not like Joseph to not share something like that. He has always had a desire to perform but has suffered a bit from stage fright. Maybe this will help him fight some of those fears.

All in all a good night. A long night, but a good night.

AJ