2018 Sports

This year we gave each of the kids a choice of sport.  Even just limiting it to one each is a financial stretch!  Liberty has always been a water baby so it was no surprise that she chose swimming lessons.  She completed an eight week course course starting in February.  She is now quite adventurous without her water wings on and will be swimming completely on her own very soon!

Elaine and Nehemiah chose baseball.  Nehemiah has been dying to play baseball for quite a while, and he couldn’t wait to get his T-Ball uniform!  Ben was the assistant coach for his team, the Falcons.  He had very good attention and always wanted to be first on the ball.  He is also a strong hitter, and seemed to stick with the game longer than many of the young kids on his team.  During three weeks of rainout games, Saturdays were miserable around our house because Nehemiah would walk around asking when he could play baseball again.

Elaine registered for baseball, but we were contacted to put her into an all girls softball league.  They are trying to re-vamp the program and wanted as many girls as possible.  They also asked Ben to coach, so we had two Basher’s in the house.  There were only four softball teams, and Elaine’s took second in the league.  For only having seven players, and most of them not having played before, they learned and improved a lot!

Nolan decided not to continue with T-Ball from last year, but has been wanting to play soccer for a while.  It was too late to get him into a spring league (and Saturdays were already pretty busy), so we held our for Fall.  We have found a lovely niche playing sports in Riverdale (a predominantly Jewish neighborhood), because it seems like the Gentile teams get the fields on Saturdays.  However, the park we use for both baseball and soccer is getting ready to undergo a huge renovation so the fall leagues are being shortened and there will be fewer teams.  So…we ended up on the waiting list for soccer.  In the interim, we registered for a six-week summer class with Super Soccer Stars.  Once again rain was our enemy, and we lost two weeks of play!  But, praise the Lord, we get to reschedule since there are so many different classes with SSS in NYC.  Nolan was thrilled to pick out soccer socks and shin guards, and he’s learning a lot about dribbling the ball!