Kids Update part 1: Jakob

Jakob played baseball again this "spring". He really enjoys it and was lucky enough to have the same great coach as last year, and a lot of friends on his team. He even played a little better than last year, though I would say for sure the most noticable improvement was that we got him some proper baseball pants to wear.

One nice perk was being invited to a Diamondbacks game to parade around Chase Field before the game with other Little Leaguers. You can see him on the JumboTron below, he's the one with black socks and really skinny white legs (that's what baseball pants will do to ya!)

Jakob also recently earned his Wolf Cub Scout award, which he had to retrieve by "wolfing" down a plate of frosting...get it?... "wolf". Anyways, you can't see it in the picture but yes he had those skinny little baseball pants on under his scout shirt because we had to leave the pack meeting right away to get to Jakob's last ball game of the season. Fun times.

Last, but not least, was Jakob's probably favorite event of the whole year, the "Fathers and Sons" campout where he and Jarod get to leave Mom, sisters and changing underwear behind, for one night at least. This year they tried something a little different and slept in the car (because all the seats can lay down flat) instead of a tent, and that seemed to work quite well. Also, Jakob was nursing a huge abcess on his tooth (which ended up getting extracted first thing Monday morning after the campout) but it didn't seem to hold him back.

What I've come to realise over the years is I know that Jakob has had a good time when he comes back filthy and grumpy.