And Now we do Baseball...

This year Andrew asked if he could play baseball. We wanted to let him try it out without having to commit to traveling all over the place and paying a whole lot of money. It turns out our town has a little rag-tag t-ball team that is part of the local rec dept. but very lax on who they let play. It is mostly preschoolers from Abi's school and they only practice one day a week at the school less than a mile from our house. So even though Andrew is a little older than most of them, it seemed perfect for our first year trial run. He is already loving it! He loves that Daddy will play catch with him in the backyard. And he is actually pretty good at it. Unfortunately they only have about 3 games scheduled and 2 of them will be while we are on our trip to Texas, but we knew that going in. At least now we know he likes it and wants to keep doing it.

Their coach is really great with them and very patient. He lets them all have a turn to bat every practice and lets them all try different positions in the field. And he makes them run. 

Meanwhile, despite my efforts to keep him in just one extracurricular activity at a time, he is also still doing taekwando, and really advancing. His instructor gifted us with a set of sparring gear (we're still not sure why she just gave it all to us, but think it may have something to do with our ordeal with Jacob-- she wanted to help with a fundraiser but we told her we didn't need it, so she wanted to do something else!) so last Saturday Andrew got to try sparring-- another thing he really loved. It is a great way to 1) learn self-defense and 2) put into practice some of the skills he's been learning in his taekwando class.

Here is a little video of sparring practice. He beat this kid 3-0 (in all honesty, the other kid had never sparred before either).