The greeting on the front door
The entrance to the backyard
While the kids arrived, they all autographed (soft)balls for them to take home as favors.
The first thing we did was sing, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," and "Happy Birthday." Then we indulged in cake!
We started the fun with some pitching practice, the boys lined up and threw water balloons at the catcher targets. No one got wet, but I kept hearing them say, "This is so much fun!!"
Next was batting practice. I was going to make a pinata with a paper mache balloon, but thankfully, I found this one at Hobby Lobby. The boys all lined up. We blindfolded them and swung the ball. The each got three strikes at the pinata. We went through the whole line before it broke and started again without the blindfold. It wasn't long before it busted. When the candy fell out, I had them collect it all and put it in a popcorn bucket. We then distributed it evenly between their favors.
We then walked down the street to the middle school playing field and set up a pick-up game of baseball. Jack, Jeb and Will wanted it to be the All-Star Game because Jack and Will were Rockies and Jeb was a Cardinal. So they were the National League. We played two innings and it was a close game. We wrapped it up by saying that it was time to walk back for Jack to open his presents.
The boys went home with fun favors including the goodies from the previous post and the autographed baseballs.
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