Baseball Game

Yesterday we went to Arlington, TX to see the Oakland Athletics play the Texas Rangers. For those of you who don't know, Tim has been an A's fan all his life; so we are an Athletics family. For the past four years we have been to at least one A's vs Rangers game. This game, we decided to come back after rather than stay at a hotel. We were worried about how Aeryn would handle it, but she did great.
They open the gates 3 hours before the game starts, so fans can watch the teams warm up, and try to get some autographs. I thought it was 4 hours, and I am glad I did. If we would have left to get there 3 hours before we would have hit rush hour traffic in Dallas. Talk about a lucky mistake. There was about half an hour to kill when we arrived, so we went to the All American Grille. It's a restaurant in the stadium, above right field. What a view. It was nice to be inside with AC. Not being very hungry, we just split a Caesar salad. With a few minutes left before they opened the gates we got in line. They check your bags before you can go in, and one of the rules is no glass. I didn't think about it when I had packed the diaper bag, but the baby food jars were glass. Since we couldn't bring in the jars we dumped them into styrofoam cups. Ugh.
We brought a baseball for the players to sign; a keepsake for Aeryn. We got Nick Swisher, Shannon Stewart, JJ Furmaniak, Chad Gaudin, and Houston Street to sign it. Houston Street is a really great guy, he always stays out and signs autographs as long as there is a line. And when we were in line for Shannon Stewart, he said the last one he was going to do would be for the kid in front of us. I asked if he would please sign Aeryns ball because it was her first game, and he did! That was cool of him.
Before the game started, there were photogs going around the park taking pics for the Rangers website, and took one of Aeryn and I. Click here to see it.
The game was 13 innings, started at 730 and was over at midnight. Aeryn conked out the last half of the 13th. I was surprised she made it that long. It was a nail biter. The A's scored 6 in the 1st and then a homer in the 3rd, and didn't score again until the 13th. My heart was racing the whole time after the 9th.
Every time we have gone to see them play the A's win. (knock on wood) It's a great feeling to go into a stadium cheering for the visiting team, and being able to walk out proud.

Aeryn discovered how to wave bye. It's so cute, she will turn both hands toward herself, and watch her hands wave. We haven't been able to get her to do it on cue yet. She is also very interested in buttons. She can turn the TV on and off, change the channels and volume. If it has a button, she wants to push it. I can't believe how smart she is! It's so awesome to be watch someone discover new things.