Argh!

Stephanie's T-ball team was officially assigned to be the Pirates last week, and today was the first T-ball game.  The kids are aged 4-6, and the games last 1 hour (which turns out to normally be two innings).  Each child gets a turn to bat, they run one base at a time, and the last child at bat "clears" the bases.  There is no score kept (though I overheard that one little boy confidentially told his dad that he thought the score was 5-4 and that we were winning).  The kids did a respectable job looking like a T-ball team.  Sure, there was the stray child that ran to third instead of first after batting and the kids that seemed to actually throw the bat at the ball so that the bat when in-field nearly as far as the ball, but at least it gave the parents something to laugh about.  Stephanie, for her part, did fine.  She seemed to normally be looking for the batter to hit the ball, but there was sometimes a longer than necessary gap between batters and she would end up talking to her friend on the field.  She was very good about not trying to field a ball that was not in her area, and made no attempts to field the ball when she was a runner (unlike practice, when she somehow got her mitt back on while she was running the bases and proceeded to chase the ball into the outfield when it got past an infielder- I still don't know how she got her mitt after batting and it took some convincing before she believed me about that not being the the runners job!)

She ended up with the "1" jersey.