Connor is a joiner

Well, more than the rest of us I think. Last year he won camper of the week once, basically entirely on the strength of the incredible enthusiasm with which he sung, belted out even, the camp song. Last week we went to see the Westbury 12yo All-Stars play. Jamie was of course very interested to see these kids, some of whose younger brothers we know, playing so impressively. Eventually their attention wandered. Jamie went off to play with a bunch of kids from WLL. I love seeing them have sort of free-range, unstructured time like this.

Connor meanwhile starting throwing a tee-ball against the wall, which he likes doing a lot now. I had my eye on him and then game but was startled and at first alarmed to see him surrounded by a bunch of big kids from the Bellaire All-Stars who were there watching the game. They were all laughing and at first I was worried they were making fun of him, but it turned out they were being really sweet and having a kind of mini-game with him at the center pitching. Very cute.

But as the game when on, it turned into one of the best Little League games I've evr seen and Connor especially got really into it. We were up 11-4, then gave up 10 runs in the 5th to go into the 6th down 14-11. We rally and Connor is chanting along with everyone "West-bur-y, West-bur-y!!!!!" With 2 strikes and 2 outs a Westbury kid hits a three run homer to put us up 15-14. Pandemonium in the stands, cats hugging dogs. Jamie's mouth was just hanging open and Connor was freaking out. Then Post Oak hits a 2 out, 2 strike homer to win it in the bottom of the 6th. Heartbreaking. Connor took it really hard. At first he was just in stunned disbelief, then he started bawling in the car and really didn't shake it off before falling asleep. It was the first of many talks likely about sports fandom being primarily about heartbreak.