A few weeks ago, rummaging through the closet, I found his tee and bat safely stashed for the winter and told him we could play now that the weather is nice. And it's his new favorite activity. We've played each weekend day it was sunny for about an hour each time. He loves hitting, he loves chasing the ball, he even enjoys taking turns.
Most impressive to me is how much he's improved each time. When we first bought it for him last year he was holding the bat upside down, and we had to do a little work on the proper way to hold a bat the first time we took the tee out this year. Now he's got it down pat:
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| From 2012 May |
And as I said above, he enjoys taking turns, in no small part because he gets to help enforce the rules that we established the first time (mostly at his impetus, I must say). So here's a photo of him taking joy in putting the ball back up on the tee:
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| From 2012 May |
And yes, he insisted on wearing sunglasses because Daddy was wearing sunglasses. Mine don't have Lightning McQueen on the side, unfortunately. Oh well. Finally, some video which opens with Nicholas doing his impression of his father doing an impression of his father (etc.) being dopey and pretending to hit the ball out of sight when, in fact, he missed:
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| From 2012 May |
Guess Sarah needs to get you some Lightning McQueen glasses so you feel a part of it. :)
ReplyDeleteAbby is getting geared up for soccer, even though it's still MONTHS away. Like, Fall. Yeah. When can you get him started in Tee Ball?
The local youth baseball league seems to start tee ball with 5-year-olds, so he's got two more years of practice ahead of him. Unless we move to a town with a 4-year-old league. Hmmm...
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the video. Then I re-read the last paragraph and . . . . what the HEY! I think I've been insulted!!
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