All Star Festivities 2009

Mommy, Daddy and Delaney at FanFest!

Daddy and Delaney
Daddy helping Delaney hit the ball.

Yeah Laney!

Stealing home....

It took Delaney 16 seconds to run 90 feet from 3rd to home!

Future NL player?

Yadi

Ryan Franklin

Albert Pujols

A very sleepy Delaney and Uncle Alex at the parade.

Watching the parade.

Delaney waving to the "baseball people"

At City Garden

She had so much fun running back and forth.

Timid at first but got soaking wet by the end!

We have had some busy days her in St. Louis with all the All Star Festivities going on! My Dad aka The General got some great tickets so the boys went to most of the games. Mom aka MiMi was so nice to let Jer have her ticket for the All Star Game and the Futures and Celebrity Softball game. We all had tickets to check out FanFest. Delaney liked seeing the big giant baseballs, hitting the ball on the tee and running to steal home with Daddy. She got a Cardinal's Baloon that she is still running through the house with 2 days later! Mimi, Uncle Alex, Delaney and I went to the Players parade before the big game too. We had a man who I nicknamed "the brick wall" who was right in front of us and he was so tall and big.... he could have stood behind us as seen just as well! He also liked to call the players by nicknames like he knew them! Oh well! We could see most of the parade! We walked around downtown, had a late lunch then dropped Alex off to the boys for the game. Delaney loved the comotion of downtown and all the "baseball cardinals" everywhere. We even happened upon a bubble machine! With only a 45ish minute nap I was surprised at how well Delaney did the entire day! On the way back to the car we stopped at the new City Garden. It was a really nice little place! I let Delaney take off her shoes and run through the water fountains with the other kids and she had a blast. She didn't want to leave until she heard another little kid mention ice cream then she said "Ice cream for Laney too?" so I told her if she got out of the water we could get some... and we did. I really enjoyed getting to be a part of the action.... you don't know how long it will be until our city gets to host again!