Flying Squirrels

 Our local AA baseball team is in the championship series, and Grandma, Grandpa, Mommy, Daddy, and Anderson were all decked out and ready to be Flying Squirrels (yes, Richmond voted on this mascot a couple of years ago) fans for the evening.  Anderson has enjoyed watching Daddy play softball, and he even enjoyed a Babe Ruth 12-yr olds world series game- awake and looking around for most of the game.  Besides, Anderson's daddy had gotten him the littlest Flying Squirrels t-shirt you can buy, so we already knew he would be the CUTEST fan at the game.

While he WAS the cutest fan, he was NOT the happiest.  Turns out that professional games are significantly louder than softball or little league, and it took one good hit by the Squirrels for Anderson to let us know he wanted OUT of there.  Mom and I walked him around behind the stands for a good little while so he could calm down.  We all hated to see him afraid.  We made a couple of attempts back out in the stands before deciding Mom, Anderson, and I would probably all be happier at home getting bedtime started.  Ryan and Dad stuck it out and enjoyed the rest of the game, although the Squirrels lost. 

We did, however, get a couple of good family photos- something we haven't had a lot of yet.  Anderson doesn't even look terrified!  :)

Next year we will be back, and I have a feeling Anderson will love it.  He is an Ives, afterall!

Maymont

Saturday the boys had a fantasy football draft, so Kelly and I decided to take the babies to Maymont.  They were such good babies!


Our first task was to fit both carseats and strollers into one car.  Luckily Kelly's new car was just the right size.  Here are the cuties in the backseat.  They didn't seem to pay each other too much attention, but they were great little companions.

Kelly and I didn't remember Maymont being so hilly, and on a warm September day it felt like quite a workout getting the strollers around.  We settled on doing most of our "sight-seeing" at the Nature Center, which was indoors with a/c.

 

 We saw fish...

And fish saw us! (notice the fish staring at Anderson)

The highlight for me was seeing the otters!  The babies had as much fun watching the kids watching the otters as anything else.

I was sure Anderson loved the otters, and I reached over the stroller to capture his (surely smiling) face while we watched them:

Haha :) He looks uncertain.


Next time (in beautiful fall weather) we'll really get out and about and check out the big animals, like the bears, bison, foxes, and bald eagle!  I'm going to love being out and about this fall.... but with October comes mommy going back to work.... so for now I cherish these hot summer days spent indoors.