Today was Opening Day and Paul’s first game. I hated to miss it. But I loved that Joe is helping coach and our dear friend Mimi is around to help watch the young ones (our boys are on the same team).

He came home tired and hungry, which I am learning to seriously appreciate.

Look at the father and son in matching catcher poses, that is so natural.

By the looks of these other photos

they all had fun today.

This one above is classic. Olivine understands that with English or Japanese, not much has to be lost in translation when there are smiles, hugs, and giggles involved. Besides, baseball is only minimally entertaining when there is a captive audience at your side.