What do you get?

What do you get when you combine a bunch of boys, a large field and darkness?  A broken finger! 

We went camping a couple of weeks ago with our Cub Scout Pack and it was a lot of fun.  I'll post pictures soon...I took 7 Tiger Scouts (1st graders) and they had a lot of fun!  Anyway...the big boys (Boy Scouts) play Capture the Flag at night when they have a field big enough and of course my Oldest was in the middle of it all.  He went to tag a team mate, ran into him and broke his middle finger on his right hand, just below the first knuckle!  He actually ran into the other boy so hard that he rotated the top of his finger about 45 degrees!  Anyway...

An ER visit, a visit to the Orthopedic Dr., who rotated the finger back into place, and a blue splinted finger later, he's doing great.  He didn't get to try out for the High school baseball team though :-( and he hasn't played on his regular season team for 2 weeks now, but hopefully things will work out.  He might get to try out at the end of summer or definitely next spring for his Sophomore year.

On the upside he's started practicing for the HS Marching band for the fall.  He looked really good at his first Marching Clinic Last night.

"He's Just a Little Boy"

So many parents try to live vicariously through their children, thinking that they are raising the next All-Star Player.  Where has all the fun gone?  I couldn't do what they do, I couldn't stand there and swing a bat or field a pop-fly.  I'm proud of my sons and hope they play baseball for the love of the game, there's more to life than being perfect!

Thank you to whoever wrote this.