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A Night at the Ball Park!

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I really love sports. Growing up, I wanted to play every sport I could. In our small town, there weren’t a ton of options, but I loved being involved nonetheless. My favorite sport in my childhood was softball. To this day, I am sure I could just go into the backyard and throw the softball back and forth for hours. Ethan and I definitely bond over our love of sports. So yesterday when Ethan asked me an hour before we would need to leave if I wanted to go to an Orioles game, I had to say yes. Never mind I was in the middle of a million things. Ethan has been dying to go to a game this season, and it looked like it would be a beautiful night. Let’s go!  

Going to a 3 hour long sporting event with two young children isn’t exactly easy, and honestly not always fun. But I figure if we want our kids to eventually enjoy going to and behaving at baseball games, then we just have to take them. Eventually they’ll get used to it, and it will be awesome. It’s like these people who supposedly take their young children camping…and have fun??? Sure, yeah… 

I am so glad we went! We waited to buy our tickets at the park to save on processing fees (Ethan is totally a Kennedy and I LOVE it), and we ended up with great seats. The Orioles have this deal where kids under 9 can get free tickets to the game. Not just any seats, the nosebleeds, but still we ended up behind home plate. Ethan is so great to try and keep Everett with him as much as possible so I can enjoy the game. Plus, it seems that whenever I get Everett, Annie gets super clingy as well. #mommymagnet #jealoussibling 





Okay, so first of all, we had this great usher. He showed us to our seats, dried them off, and gave each of our kids their own baseball cards (from his personal collection as far as we could tell). He was seriously just so nice. Everytime we would go out to the bathroom, which was quite a bit because baseball can be a little boring lol, he would talk to us. He was great. 

The kids loved the music and the cheering. Everett would clap anytime anyone started clapping, and Annie had fun cheering for individual players at bat with Ethan. Ethan made PB&J’s for the whole family and I don’t think any of us were disappointed with our dinner :) 

It really was a beautiful night. The weather was a tad humid, but the temperature was perfect. And I just love sitting outside, looking at the city skyline while the sun goes down. It is just so beautiful to me. Comerica Park is my favorite, but Baltimore was pretty great too. 

Another fun moment was when Annie and I got on the dance cam during one of the inning breaks. She’s so cute, I can’t say that I’m surprised. 




Sometime during the 6th inning we started to feel little raindrops. Well it wasn’t too long until those little raindrops turned into big raindrops. This is where the nosebleed section, which is under cover, paid off. Everyone else had to run out of the rain and we were sitting dry in our seats. However, after about 15 minutes it was raining so hard everyone had to get out of their seats and head into more serious cover. When it started lightning and thundering we decided to cut our losses and head out. Thankfully we were parked pretty close to the stadium, but we all still got completely soaked. Regardless, we all had a great time, and we are so glad we went! 



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