Divide and Conquer

It was a weekend spent apart for John and I. Luke had a huge tournament for his U9 team just north of us about an hour and a half. Considering the fact that there were only 2 "9 year olds" on the team....the rest were 7 and 8, John thought they did pretty well!! They lost their 1st and 3rd games, but decided to stay in the hotel another night, just to swim and have fun with the other families. I guess the pool(indoor) at the hotel was packed until around midnight!!! They were tired pups the next day..... Here's Luke up to bat...
I, on the other hand, spent the weekend at home with Andrew and Anna..(Ben was with John). Anna had a birthday party/sleepover and Andrew and I spent some time out of town for Andrew's double header on Saturday. Here's a picture of his team warming up....yes, there he is in the outfield...all by himself.
Obviously we were short a few players...2 to be exact, so some players from the other team actually played on our team for the 1st game. We lost that game.

I made a phone call, and a friend of mine brought her son up to play...so we graciously gave back the other teams duds players and played with just 8 players, our own. Andrew covered left field and left center field and the other fielder covered right field and right center field. Andrew did a fabulous job!! He made a ton of catches in the field!

I told him between games that he "T.C.B." He looked at me kinda strange. "What does that mean, Mom?" he questioned. I told him..."You Took Care of Business". He was silent for a minute and then said "I don't do 1970's acronyms!" I laughed!!! Later we will have to down load Aretha Franklin's song, "respect" (that's where T.C.B. originates :)
Oh yes, they won the second game by a big margin! Hooray!


Maybe he did so well because earlier in the day we went here (at his begging request)....check out the HUGE breakfast!!!!
and yes, he invited his sister to play checkers while waiting for our breakfast!!!
What a nice brother, don't you think???? Jill