Baseball

I recently took Rebecca to a Bridgeport Bluefish game. The Bluefish play in the independent league, roughly equivalent to Division A of the minor league system. Interestingly, Tommy John is the manager of the Bluefish.

Anyway, Rebecca had a great time. And she even lasted 6 innings, which was much more than I expected. But it wasn't the game that kept her interest. Fortunately, the people who run Harbor Yard know that keeping kids' attention during a baseball game is not very easy, so they've devised a number of tricks to keep the young ones entertained during the game. Rebecca was probably most impressed with Jake the Water Dog, who carried a basket of water bottles around the infield for the umpires between innings. And then she loved it when Jake showed off his athletic prowess by catching well-thrown frisbees in the outfield after the 5th inning.

She also liked the Bluefish mascot who came around to the different parts of the stadium and did very goofy tricks for the kids. And of course, the clown making balloon animals was a big hit (you can see her balloon poodle in the picture-->).

And for the first time, Rebecca ate peanuts right out of the shell. It took her a few minutes to get the hang of cracking open the shell, but she managed to put down the entire bag once she got going.

During all this excitement, there was actually an exciting baseball game going on. The score was 4 to 3 when we left. I'm still not sure who won, but all I know is we had a great time. Once Joshua gets old enough, you can be sure I'll take him. Looking forward to that.