Every time we drive to Children's Hospital, we go past Miller Park. The boys, especially Jonah since he is more often the patient, always get so excited to see the "baseball place". So when Andrew found out today was $6 tickets and $1 hot dogs at the park, we decided to give it a try.
The cheap tickets and food were our home run! Good day to try at the game without spending too much money because we weren't sure how many innings we would last with the boys. Both of them get rather scared of large crowds and loud noisy places.
Our walk was from the parking lot to the stadium and then around the stadium to find our seats. What a beautiful day for a baseball game. 70 degrees, nice breeze, partly sunny. Very pleasant! Great final fling of summer.
Our strikeout was unfortunately right before we were going to leave for the game, Jonah started running a 101 fever. He was pretty miserable so we knew he wasn't baseball material. He was napping when it was time to go so we decided to still go with Ben. We left Jonah with Lydia, but we sure felt guilty that Jonah was missing the game.
Jonah actually perked up for a bit after his nap (and Advil) and played nicely for Lydia while we were gone. But then, on our way home, she called that his fever was up to 101 again. We are thinking his ear infection from 2 weeks ago may be back again? We'll see how tonight goes.
The other unfortunate thing is the first day of school is tomorrow. I'm not sure the little guy will make it to school. I have never had a child miss the first day. He'll be so disappointed about that too. Poor fellow.
So we gave a baseball game a try although it didn't work out quite like we hoped. I guess why that's flexibility is the game we most often suit up for in our household.
Ben was pretty anxious most the time in the stadium although eating a hot dog helped! What really scared him the most was walking up and down the steps by our seats and the escalator. However, we are proud of him for giving it a try and actually sitting pretty quietly for 6 innings.
Jonah sleeping when we left for the game.
Ben's pre-game nap in the van heading there
Getting to our seats.
At first, Ben kept asking to go home.
Ben starting to settle in and handle the noise etc.
Finally some smiles from Ben.
This was post-hot dog:)
Made it to the 6th inning!
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