Baseball

I love October. The summer is over, the leaves are changing, there is a crisp in the air…..oh wait, I live in Arizona. None of those things are true. We have to no leaves, it’s still in the low 90’s and no matter what time of year, there is never a “crisp” in the air.

But, no matter where you live, there is one thing that is universal about October….

….the World Series.

Austin lives for the World Series. He loves baseball. Even though I grew up a big time Angels fan, Austin has always worn Dodger blue. So it would stand to reason that our boys heart the Dodgers.

This World Series Dax is very much into cheering for his team. The boys (and by boys I mean Dax, Wyatt and Austin) get decked out in their Dodger hats and watch each game. It means late nights for Dax, Wyatt yelling, “Go Manny” and Austin in pure heaven watching the games with his sons. It’s kinda adorable to watch.

Even last night when Dax was saying his prayers he prayed for Manny and the Dodgers. And today, when he was playing with an empty 2-liter bottle and a tennis ball, he ran and got his Dodger hat, asked me to pretend his name was Manny, put the tennis ball on the mouth of the 2-liter bottle like a tee, and although he kicked the bottle and the ball went flying, he still ran around the house yelling, “He hits another homer run!” Not home run. A homer run.

Wyatt in the meantime is chasing him around the 'bases' yelling "Go Manny" as if right on cue which made Dax even more thrilled.

There's definitely a love of the game in this house.

And I absolutely love it.