3rd Annual Opening Day

As planned, we were able to take Brody to his 3rd opening day at Miller Park.  The last two years were relatively successful.  We knew it would be a little more challenging with a two year old, but looked forward to the day.

Go Brewers!

Tailgating was a must, so we grilled out, played catch in the parking lot and ate lunch.  As always, we had to make sure he stayed away from the grill, but he did a great job listening and eating lunch in a lawn chair.

We headed into the park early to look at the Brewers gear and get settled into our seats.  Brody got a new hat, which I don't think he took off for 2 days.  Then it was nice to be in there early so that he could sit in his own seat for awhile.  We decided with our tickets this year (and the other 10 games we have tickets for) to keep him on our laps, and not get him his own seat.  This may have been a mistake.  He did a great job sitting in the seat before the people next to us got there.  Next year, since he'll be over 3, he'll need his own seat anyway, but I wish we had invested in it in this year.  Oh well!

 Inside the park, Brody spotted Bernie Brewer.  He was so excited to run up to him and wanted to say hi, but once we got close up he became scared.  It was better than our Santa 2011 fail, but he still wasn't loving him.  Then of course all day he wanted to go find Bernie. 

During the game, Brody actually did really well.  Ironically, we ended up knowing the people sitting next to us (friend of a friend thing), so it was nice to have people around that were being really nice when Brody got a little restless.  I'm not afraid to admit that I brought my iPad with and Brody did watch a TV show for a little bit during the game. 

Naptime on opening day?  Nonexistent.  But, Brody handled it well and there were no meltdowns.  We left the game during the 7th inning stretch (we were getting killed, so it wasn't a good game anyway).  But it was already 6 by the time we left and it had been a long day.

After repeatedly telling us on the way to the car, "no bedtime!", Brody passed out minutes into the drive home.  Note that he took the hat off, but didn't let go of it.