Rangers Game in the Rain

This was Jack's first Ranger game this season.  Ben had made a comment earlier in the week that since Jack has been alive, the Rangers have been the ALCS champions.  Anyway, I like to post pictures of Jack doing the same activity the year before to compare how much he has changed.  

June 2011                        May 2012

So this year Jack got a shirt that was just like Daddy's.  On the way to the ballpark, Jack was holding the umbrella and saying what sounded like a rain chant.  I was hoping it was a "rain, rain, go away chant".  He would also say "Go Rangers" which was super cute.  We parked in one of the farthest lots so we had a long way to walk.  Jack was so excited, he held both of our hands and practically ran to the stadium.  He'd also let out a scream of excitement here and there as well as a "Go Rangers!"  We'd ask him "Are you ok Jack, do we need to carry you?" because he was breathing so hard.  But each time he'd say "no!" and keep hustling.

Once inside (it was very crowded, the games were sold out all weekend) Ben carried Jack so that he wouldn't get lost.

We finally made it to our seats (3rd deck, but row 3 so it wasn't bad).  Jack was so excited as you can see by the picture above.  Once he had looked at everything around he asked to color.  So he colored as well as would look at the field.  The video below shows Jack taking it all in.  

Mommy and Jack

After sitting in our seats for about 15 minutes, the announcer came on and said there was a Thunderstorm threat in the Arlington area and people in the upper decks (that was us) should take cover.  So we waited about 5 more minutes then gathered our things and headed down one level. The picture below is of Jack and Ben at the top of the Stadium with the storm coming in behind them.  This picture doesn't do the storm justice.  It was a lot darker than this picture shows.  I guess that's what you get when you use an i-phone camera.

We got to a lower deck before the crowd rushed in.  After Ben got his hot dog, the rest of the stadium (so it seemed) crowded around where we were.  They had delayed the game due to rain.  So as the rain came pouring down and the wind blew like crazy we tried to keep Jack entertained.  We had heard we might have to do this for an hour, which at first freaked me out.  I thought there was no way Jack was going to be content with all of these people around for an hour.  We quickly found a table with empty seats to sit at.  Jack colored for a bit, then we got out the fruit snacks.  I knew this would keep him occupied for a little while.  Then he wanted to walk around.  So daddy took him for a few minutes then they returned.  Then we heard the storm should be dying down so we made the trek to the opposite side of the stadium to head back to our car.  By now it was 8:30 and probably the time we were going to leave anyway.

Ben carried Jack to the car at a faster pace than I could go.  So I kept the umbrella and walked at my own pace.  I just laughed the whole time so I decided to take a picture of me walking back to the car.  It had pretty much stopped raining halfway back to the car.

We didn't get Jack down for the night until about 9pm and they actually didn't resume the game until 9:30pm so it was a good thing we left when we did.  I told Ben on the way home that I wouldn't be surprised if Jack had a night terror tonight since he got to bed late.  And sure enough at 1am he had a night terror.  I will be glad when he grows out of these.