Lily's First Braves Game!

Ryan and I took Lily to her first Braves game last night, and we had a blast. She was so excited about going! For the last few weeks, every time she saw them on tv, she would sit down to watch for a little bit, so we thought this would be something fun to do. It was a beautiful evening, and a perfect night to sit out at the stadium. Unfortunately, the Braves didn't do so well against the Mets this night (they had beaten them the previous three nights), but oh well, you can't win them all, right?

Lily decked out in her pink Braves outfit. Both her pinstripe shirt and shorts have the Atlanta "A" on them. Bama had braided her hair, so she looked adorable. She was so excited!

So excited to walk up the stairs at Turner Field. She couldn't wait to get to our seats.
The game started at 7:00, but we decided to get there a little early and eat dinner at the 755 Club. We all shared garlic fries and a pepperoni pizza which were actually really good. Lily was thrilled to get a lemonade to drink. She was impressed with how high up in the stadium we were while eating. I told her we would all stand up and put our hands over our hearts to sing The Star Spangled Banner, so for about 15 minutes before the game, we heard "Is it time to sing yet?" over and over. She stood pretty still when the time came with her little hand over heart; it was precious to see. Here's a picture of us enjoying the lemonade while we waited on our dinner.

Taking it all in while we waited.

Enjoying the view!

Lily thought it was really funny that the chairs closed up on her. She kept getting in and out just to see that happen. There wasn't a big crowd at all which was nice. We were able to spread out a little bit which was really good because it allowed Lily to move around a bit. Ryan surprised her with a Tomahawk because she loved seeing them on tv. She loved it!

It was actually NASCAR night at the game. Even though Ryan and I don't watch NASCAR, it was really cool to see the race cars that came out just before the game started. It's a little difficult to see in this picture, but there were 5 or 6 cars in a row; they are by the Braves' dugout in the picture. When they got about halfway around the outfield, each one took off and went really fast; this impressed all of us!

Around inning 5, we noticed Lily was paying attention to everything except the game. At one point, Ryan asked "Lily, where's the baseball game?" She said "Ummm..." and looked around for a few seconds before laughing and pointing to the field. We decided to go get Dippin' Dots ice cream for a little treat and break. Lily had vanilla, I had strawberry, and we picked up Cookies & Cream for Ryan. As we were walking back to our seats to enjoy with Ryan, Lily looked at all three flavors, and decided that "mine is liciouser than yours." "Licious" is how she says "delicious" so to hear "liciouser" made me laugh.

We thought we would probably only be able to stay a few innings before Lily would become too bored or tired. However, she did great for a long time. In the 7th inning, we could see she was starting to fade quickly though, so we decided to head up to the top of the stadium to play at the Kids Corner. Lily loved these huge Coke chairs to climb in and walk around on.

Seriously, the chairs were HUGE!

Ryan and Lily enjoyed them too.

Tomahawkin' away!

The kids can run the bases on top too. Lily wanted to do it, but didn't want to run by herself, so I agreed to run with her. Fun times!

We headed out in the bottom of the 8th. We were impressed with what a good job Lily did. She loved it, and asked to come back soon. She enjoyed seeing the Gas South fire light up when Hutson got a strike-out, and she didn't freak out (major improvement!) when the fireworks exploded above us when McCann hit a home run. She has talked several times about what came out of the yellow gate; she's referring to the race cars and the inflatable tools that come out to race. She also liked the "ball cap shuffle" on the big screen and watching people dance on the screen. We're so thrilled to have another Braves fan in the house!