James the baseball star

Every summer we let the kids pick one activity that they want to do for the summer. This year Laine picked archery, Eve picked art lesson, and James surprised us all and picked baseball. He has played for the last two years but never really showed much interest in it. I always figured he played because his cousin was playing and that was fun. But this year his cousin wasn't playing and I was pretty sure we would be doing swim lessons, but to my surprise when we vetoed golf (a long story) he decided he wanted to play baseball. 

So we signed him up for coach pitch (where there are no outs and the coaches pitch the ball to the kids- think of it as glorified t-ball) and were so grateful that he ended up with an awesome coach. This coach took time to hold practices and really help the kids learn the game. I noticed a marked improvement in James this year. He hit the ball every time, and some times within the first three pitches. He was just so cute running around those bases with a helmet two sizes too big for  his head.  It was fun to watch him play with other kids and yell at them to run. 

It was fun to see him improve each day. I loved watching him field the balls and even throw it in the right directions-at times it would even make it to the person it was supposed to. I am glad that he went against tradition and that he actually had fun at a sport- it is progress people.