Opening Day!

Robbie started baseball again.  Opening Day was on April 4, 2009.  He's playing on the Astros this year.  Orange, Black and White are the colors.  I think they look rather smart.  All the other teams are a single color and white.  We get three colors.  

They played the Yankees for their first game.  Robbie was actually on the Yankees last year.  

He started off the day playing third base.  I think he did a pretty good job.

He's a cute little thing, isn't he?

He struggled a little bit with batting but that's ok.  This was just the first game of the season.  Robbie's a good ball player.  He needs to improve his batting but he has an ability to be very aware of what is going on around him during the game.  
This picture was of him jumping out the way of a wild pitch.  Of course, nearly every pitch in Little League is a wild pitch.
Robbie did get himself on base. (He walked)  He was able to steal second and then his teammate Dalton hit a double which got Robbie home.

I like this picture too.  He just looks happy to be playing ball.

Robbie got to try his hand at pitching as the closer.  He did a pretty dang good job.  In fact, he made the winning play of the game along with the first base player.  I was just so proud of him.  He was aware of his surroundings and did what needed to be done.  I was also happy to see his skill level rising to meet the challenge.
This is a picture of Robbie's team lining up to shake hands with the LOSERS!!!  I'm a great mom huh?  Don't judge.