Aidan has been obsessed with baseball lately, and his obsession reached a fever pitch a few days ago. He wanted to play base ball all day long for two days straight. Playing baseball means we pitch the ball to him and he tries to hit it - which is a failed proposition 100% of the time. It can also mean that he piches the ball to us and we try to hit it which occasionally works. It also sometimes is just playing catch, which also hardly ever works.
I am blown away by his commitment to something that has such a high failure rate.
At the end of my yoga class this week our teacher asked us to notice our first shattering thought when we wake up in the morning. I was immediately reminded of Aidan's shattering thought for the previous two days. For two days, every time he woke up from a nap or in the morning he said very softly, "base - ball". Was he dreaming about baseball all night?
Last night Steve was playing baseball with Aidan and talking to me about all of the work that needed to be done on this house that we are trying to buy. He was stressing out and spinning his wheels a little bit - talking to me while throwing the ball for Aidan. Finally, Aidan shouted emphatically, "NO NO BASEBALL" and every time Steve reverted to the stressed out house talk Aidan reminded him again, "NO NO BASEBALL BASEBALL".
Its all about Baseball.
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and with the baseball hat...and you guys are not sportzy, it must just be his thing...
Remember that success and failure are just points along a learning curve we call life
That is sooooo cute. Our only baseball dilemma was that Gabe wanted to play baseball inside, and, of course, hit everything that wasn't a ball with the bat (he calls it "hammering"). That didn't last long.
Are you familiar with T-ball? You tee the ball up like you would a golf ball, only the Tee is bat high, & hit it. Daniel is playing T-ball now and is also baseball obsessed. We have a farm league team here. The Sarasota Sox. He might enjoy seeing them work out. Love, Kay
The balls that we play with are T-balls - they are softer than regular baseballs - we've been talking about getting him a "T" for it - a lot less work for usWe actually do play baseball in the house - but its a barn, ya know? What good is living in a barn if you can't play baseball in it. He's really good with the bat - about not hitting things - He likes to hammer too, but somehow knows to use a hammer for that :)
Half the fun of basball is throwing the ball or hitting after it's been thrown. Has Aidan ever gone to a ball game? I think this is wonderful, stay with it and he'll one day be in the world series. And no, this isn't about me wanting to go to the world series. Maybe we can find some kind of pitching machine for him, but I think the idea of father and son playing baseball everyday is a beautiful thing.
Do you want Opa to send you the T-Ball set up he made for Aidan when he was in Texas?
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and with the baseball hat...and you guys are not sportzy, it must just be his thing...
Remember that success and failure are just points along a learning curve we call life
That is sooooo cute. Our only baseball dilemma was that Gabe wanted to play baseball inside, and, of course, hit everything that wasn't a ball with the bat (he calls it "hammering"). That didn't last long.
Are you familiar with T-ball? You tee the ball up like you would a golf ball, only the Tee is bat high, & hit it. Daniel is playing T-ball now and is also baseball obsessed. We have a farm league team here. The Sarasota Sox. He might enjoy seeing them work out. Love, Kay
The balls that we play with are T-balls - they are softer than regular baseballs - we've been talking about getting him a "T" for it - a lot less work for usWe actually do play baseball in the house - but its a barn, ya know? What good is living in a barn if you can't play baseball in it. He's really good with the bat - about not hitting things - He likes to hammer too, but somehow knows to use a hammer for that :)
Half the fun of basball is throwing the ball or hitting after it's been thrown. Has Aidan ever gone to a ball game? I think this is wonderful, stay with it and he'll one day be in the world series. And no, this isn't about me wanting to go to the world series. Maybe we can find some kind of pitching machine for him, but I think the idea of father and son playing baseball everyday is a beautiful thing.
Do you want Opa to send you the T-Ball set up he made for Aidan when he was in Texas?