Treasured Pearls: Baseball

Thursday, April 26, 2012

AT has been playing baseball this year. He has done pretty good.

The other week, he got the surprise of the season. His coach asked him to

PITCH!

AT hasn't pitched in over TWO years!!!

but he did GREAT!

He struck out one boy, fielded a hit and threw him out and they ended the inning with no runs.

He is even getting some great hits.

He is hoping to make it on the All-Stars team. I don't know...

We'll see.

Unknown said...: How awesome that he got to pitch!

You should be so proud!; 7:40 AM

Orphan Statistics

Inter-country adoption has decreased 59 percent from its high in 2004, due primarily to restrictions by sending countries.
81.5 million Americans have considered adoption. If just 1 in 500 of these adults adopted, every waiting child would have a permanent family.
Every year more than 23,000 children age out of foster care, leaving them without families of their own.
The average waiting child is 7.5 years old.
Last year, nearly 9,000 children were adopted internationally
Of the estimated 238,280 children who exited foster care during 2013, the median amount of time spent in care was 21.8 months.
In 2013, California and Texas were the two U.S. states with the most children in public foster care waiting for adoption.
As of 2013, an estimated 17.7 million children worldwide had lost one or both parents to AIDS. Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.
The births of nearly 230 million children under age 5 worldwide (about one in three) have never been recorded, depriving them of their right to a name and nationality
http://showhope.org/9-stats-about-the-orphan-crisis/