Sennet had his second game with the Red Caps on Saturday. Both teams were really hitting well, and a lot of the innings ended with the 5-run rule (team gets three outs or five runs to end an inning).
Sennet had a really good game. He got a hit each time at bat, and made some really good fielding plays – as you can see in the video:
This Sunday Sennet and I participated in the Emerald City Bike Ride. A recreational out-and-back ride across the new State Route 520 Floating Bridge, connecting Seattle to Kirkland across Lake Washington. The bridge made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest floating bridge in the world.
We started at Husky Stadium on the University of Washington campus, and with over 6,000 riders, it was pretty chaotic at the start line. We all had to walk our bikes for a few blocks until it opened up enough to pedal. Fun times!
All told it was about a 10 mile ride for us.
Some lady had her little dog in her bike basket… and she just so happened to be riding a Diamondback bike that I designed, the Vital 2!
Sennet played his first “coach-pitch” baseball game this morning. It was his team’s second game but he was sick last week.
They play 3 innings, and he got up to bat twice, and got a hit both times.
In the first inning he played right field, and didn’t expect much action. But one hit got past the infielders and he scooped it up and threw it to Callum at first base for a nice out. He also played short stop and catcher, and had a lot of fun. (They don’t keep score, but his team would have won – they were ahead 5-0 after two innings when I quit paying attention to the score.)
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Overheard last night:
Stacie: “Sennet, how would you like to take a bath?”
Sennet: “No.”
Stacie: “Let me put it another way, go take a bath.”
Sennet: “Let me put it another way. No.”
[FYI: a bath was taken]
Sennet is in carpentry this year, as one of his after-school activities.
Originally he said he wanted to do it, so Stacie signed him up, and then when it was about to begin, he began whining about it and saying he didn’t want to do it. He even told Olive (classmate) that “his mom is making him do it.”
Well after the first session (it’s every Wednesday), it was all he could talk about. He loved it. All he wanted to do that night was talk about carpentry. He wouldn’t even let me go back downstairs after I took him up to bed because he kept saying, “Wait, I want to keep talking about carpentry!”
He chose an army tank as his first project. He built it from scratch – picking out the blocks of wood, drawing his cut lines, sawing it, drilling it, gluing it, and finally painting it.
Now that he’s finished his tank, he’ll begin on another project next week. He says that carpentry is what he wants to do when he grows up. (I guess that’s in addition to baking cupcakes, playing professional baseball, studying volcanoes and pyramids, and flying Army jets… he’s sort of a renaissance man.)
As an aside: Stacie is one of the volunteers for the after school activity programs. She has to be there every so often to make sure things run smoothly. One evening she was there, talking to another parent. They were asking each other whose kid they belong to, and when the lady found out Stacie was Sennet’s mom she lit up. Her son is in kindergarten and told her that at recess one kid (Kenny) is really mean to her son and won’t let him join in games and stuff. She said that Sennet always sticks up for her son and tells him that he can play and doesn’t let Kenny bully him. Yay, Sennet!
We went to the Medgar Evers pool today, and true to form, Sennet spent most of the time working on his cannonball off the diving board in the deep end. A lot of the other time was split between just swimming and relaxing in the sauna. (He loves the sauna!)