Anth's first games

Anth had his first 2 games last night (the played a double header). I begged him not to go, because I had a rough day yesterday and I wanted to do nothing more than relax. I knew from the start it was a worthless battle, but hey I tried! I always have fun at Anth's games though, so I wasn't too upset we were going. My sister, my dad and my cousin Mike all play on the team with him. The first game started at 730, and they kicked butt!!! They won 23 to 11. My sister got slammed in the knee with the ball and wasn't sure if she could keep going, but she's a trooper and she did. The 2nd game they lost, but not too bad. While they were playing I turned to watch Dom play ball with someones dogs and the next thing I know one of the girls husbands is telling me "Umm...your husband is hurt!" My first thought was great here we go again (Anth got hurt really bad last summer, but I will explain that story in a minute). Apparently he went to jump for the ball and when he did his calf locked up, so when he came down he collapsed. He couldn't move his bottom half of his leg for a minute, but they got it worked out. He pulled his muscle pretty good and is limping, but just like my sister he sucked it up and continued to play his little heart out! He decided he hadn't stretched as good as he should have, and my mom says he needs to drink more water. Towards the end of the night Tasia was getting pissy, because it was way past her bedtime. When we got home all the kids crashed hard...out like a light!

So the story about Anth getting hurt last year...it happened to be the one game I didn't go to, and I have gone to every game since!!! Anth had hit the ball into the outfield and as he was running to 2nd base the ball was coming in. The girl on 2nd missed the ball just as Anth slid into the base (face first). The ball bounced off the base and slammed him in the mouth. It split his lip really bad and knocked 2 of his teeth back into the roof of his mouth. I had just text my mom to ask if the game was over, because it was like 1030 and she called me right after and her first words were "Don't panic...he's going to be ok!" Obviously I panicked. Who says that at the first of a sentence and nothing else if something isn't wrong?!?!?! My mom was headed to the hospital to take Anth to get his mouth looked at. While they had him in xray she drove out to my house to sit with my sleeping kids, so I could go be with him. When they first did the xrays they thought his upper jaw was broken and they were going to take him in for emergency surgery, but after they did some more detailed xrays they found out it wasn't. They did however find that Anth's teeth were both cracked up in his jaw, and he would need to be looked at by a dentist. We took him to a specialist the next morning and they pulled his teeth back to where they were suppose to be (painful huh!), and they placed a brace across the front of his teeth to hold them in place. He still needs to have root canals done on both of them to completely fix them! So needless to say I always get nervous when he has to play :)

Enough with baseball and injuries lol Dominic is on a field trip today, and he was SO excited to go. It's his first field trip ever, and they were going to the zoo! He's going to be gone all day, and I don't know what I'll do with only 2 kids in the house! Dom's usually home by noon, but he won't get home until Syd does at about 330. My house might actually be quiet today! What a switch that will be!