First Game of the Season

Thursday night we headed up to Safeco Field for the last game of the series of the Angels vs. Mariners. The Angels won!

On our way up we stopped at Subway to get some $5 footlongs (sing $5 footlong song now). I love that you can get the footlong but don't have to have all the toppings on the whole sandwich. I'll get a footlong and split it with brother. As we turned to go to our usual parking area, I noticed a spot right across the street. A free spot in front of Krispy Creme! We dressed warmly in our Angel gear. It wasn't actually that cold up at Safeco unless the breeze kicked up. It had been sunny during the day with about a high of 58. The roof was open on the stadium. We were sitting out in the centerfield bleachers for about 6 innings and then we went down to the bullpen to watch for awhile. As we were standing by the fence, Scott Shields motioned for Brother to go down to the end of the fence. He gave a ball to him and one for Sister too! I think that is probably ball number 20 for Brother. Another pitcher came over and talked to Brother for a few minutes. It is always fun to watch the pitchers warm up and to hear the ball hit the catchers glove.

Both kids fell sound asleep in the car on the way home. A good night for the Bear Family.

Baseball and Birthday Party

We had a busy Saturday in the Bear household. Brother had two baseball games today. His team has definitely improved since last year. Brother Bear likes to play catcher. He is pretty good at it too. I guess I am surprised that he likes it so much since he's not a big kid and you can get knocked around back behind the plate. In case you are wondering from the picture, brother is not left handed, he's a switch hitter. Papa taught him to hit and golf left handed. He actually hits better left handed.
In between the baseball games we had a little birthday party for Sister Bear planned. Cupcakes and ice cream. Not just any cupcakes either, these were Elmo cupcakes. All week sister was saying "Elmo cupcakes Saturday." I brought them home Saturday morning and she wanted to eat one then. The funny thing is she never really ate one. Talked about them constantly and said she wanted one. Really all she did was put her mouth down to it and got a little frosting on her face. Papa cut a cupcake up for her so it would be easier to eat but that was not what she wanted. How dare he cut up an Elmo cupcake. We even tried to take the frosting off for her. Guess she just wanted to hold it and have her Elmo cupcake. There were 3 wee ones to celebrate with Sister. The siblings were all outside playing....too cool for Elmo cupcakes, even though they all had two of them.

After the quick birthday party it was back down for another baseball game. They didn't win this game. A rough first inning and they couldn't catch up. Close it was 11-15. Brother had a triple so he was pretty excited. It was a long day. Needless to say Mama Bear didn't want to cook dinner and everyone wanted to stay home, so I headed out to the drive thru and brought home Wendy's.

A Good Day

Today is a good day! Its sunny and we are expecting a high of 73 today. Of course by Thursday it is supposed to be 50 again, but hey we'll take the nice weather. But the real reason today is a good day is....baseball has begun! The MLB package on our TV has been ordered. The Aflac duck will be cruising across the bottom of our TV screen for Sister Bears enjoyment. Papa Bear and I can begin our brainwashing of which team she's going to root for.

Sister Bear is 2!!!!!!

Our Sister Bear turned two today!!! Such a big girl. Time sure has gone by fast. We went over and had lunch with Papa at Carls Jr. today. We will have a little party for her next weekend.