A Giants Fan at Birth

In 2010, Giants were doing really well in their regular season and I remember thinking “Great, just my luck, they’re going to win the World Series and I won’t be able to go.” Of course, that’s exactly what happened. The night that Hector was born we had the one of the play off games going on in our hospital room. In the operating room (during my C-section) I could hear the doctors and nurses talking about it and then one of the nurses says “well, did you know that her father-in-law WORKS for the Giants.” To which another said “well, I guess that’s a good excuse to miss the birth of your grandchild.”

A couple of weeks later, Chris’ family was going to Game 2 of the World Series, he asked if I minded if he went with them. Umm hello? Of course I did! Just kidding, I told him that if I couldn’t go, then HE should at least go for the both of us. The Giants won that night and everything was great, even though I wished I could’ve gone, I had to admit I got to stay home with one cute baby.

About a month after the World Series, the Giants staff was given the opportunity to get their picture taken with the trophies. Even though Chris had worked and it was such a rainy, ugly day, we decided it was worth it to go and get our pictures taken. And I’m soo glad we did! There were a lot of people there and we were in the middle of the line with Hector sleeping. Then a lady came out to monitor the lines and such and saw us with the baby and she said, “oh you come up the front, we’ve got a happy baby here and we’d like to keep things that way.”  So we got to cut to the front of the line and get some great pictures.

In April, once baseball season started again, they had the ring ceremony for the players. We actually went to opening day where Brian Wilson ran to hang the World Series flag. Hector was soo good and looked adorable in his Giants gear.

A couple of months later, the staff also had their own ring ceremony and we went in support of Chris’ dad. While there we got this great picture:

I love that at only 6 months (7?) Hector already had a picture with a World Series ring. And one with his last name on it nonetheless!

This year, in keeping with tradition we took Hector to Opening Night. (more on that in a separate post). Again he did so well and had so much fun. He cheered and booed with the rest of us, and it was at that moment that I decided he needed to have a Giants themed birthday party. Too bad I've already begun planning his 2 year birthday party with a Mickey Mouse theme, so it will have to get pushed back for his third birthday party. Is it weird that he's only a year and a half and I've already got his next two birthday parties planned? 

And don't worry, I'm fully aware that by the time he's 3 he may have his own opinions to what he wants for his birthday, I'll be flexible if needed =).