Take Me Out to the Ballgame

We are all about balance around here ... or we at least try. So the day after the girls and I went to Newsies, we took advantage of Gma and Gpa still being around and all went to the Twins game. I got four tickets through a work recognition perk in the Legends Club (which is my dad's favorite place to watch a game). So Grandpa found us three more tickets online and off we went.

My seats were in the fourth row and Gpa had three seats in the front row. Fiona happily waltzed down to the front to provide some entertainment for Grandma. Lucky for Gma and Gpa, no one sat next to them ... so at one point, they had all three kids down next to them. Not sure how that was for Grandpa's ability to watch the game, but Grandma and the kids were tickled by it.

It was, unfortunately, a pretty slow game and the ball was not in play very often. That meant that three wiggly little bodies had a hard time sitting still. We did some walking to look at all the memorabilia. I taught Fiona about Kirby Puckett - and she asked all kinds of questions about the images of Twins greats on the wall.

Maybe she was inspired by her wardrobe ... I had loaned her my favorite Twins shirt, which happens to have been my grandpa's shirt. She proudly sported Great Grandpa's shirt - and couldn't wait to show it to her own grandpa. It was definitely too big, but not nearly as too big as I wanted it to be on her!

The kids successfully made it five innings, including a Twins homerun (and fireworks) and several hot dogs. The trio claimed they didn't want to leave (some small ones may have wailed), but they also couldn't sit still anymore. For the sake of Grandpa and letting him actually watch the game, we called the game.

They are already talking about next season. Maybe we'll even make it through seven innings next year!