Feather Brained

Tonight was Caleb's last baseball game. Since Zaric is sick I got to stay home and help out which also allowed me to go to the game while Mike wrangled the fussy baby for a while. It was a long long game that went into double overtime. Caleb struck out his first 2 times at bat and the third time he was ecstatic that he got walked. He was doing so well and listening to the coaches and stole the bases all the way to third. Coach sent him on a big lead off getting him ready to steal home when Caleb spotted this feather in the baseline. Instead of listening to coach, he stopped and marveled at it and had to have it. So bent over to pick it up. At that time the pitcher noticed what was going on and ran over and tagged Caleb out! All the while his coach screaming "Caleb! get back to base!" The attention span of this kid amazes me sometimes. He was pretty upset about getting out and even cried. I calmed him down with a little pep talk. But Geeze! It's a damn Seagull feather! Those are pretty hard to come by in Utah you know? ;) Oh well, he's 6. What are you gonna do? Besides since he had to bring the feather home, at least we will always have a good story to tell.