Charlie is playing tee-ball and it is HILARIOUS! He LOVES playing, loves his outfit, loves his bat, glove, and helmet...he loves all of it. He even likes to play...sort of. He has really good intentions. The first game, he made snow angels...correction: DIRTangels at 2nd base. We have worked through that. He loves to run and slide in the dirt aNYTIME the ball is hit, just to have something to do. He was running from 1st to 2nd the other day and stopped to hug his friend who was playing 2nd. Needless to say, he missed his opportunity to make it to 3rd.
His coach has tried and tried, even said, "Here is an X, stand here" He bent over, fixed it, and said, "NOW it is a star."
This last game was different. (a little)
Charlie hit a home run! It went like this. He hit a good solid hit off the T. It went somewhere past the short stop...he quickly threw it to first and Charlie would have been out, but he over-threw it. Charlie ran to 2nd, just slow enough that they thought that they could FOR SURE get him out. They over threw at 2nd (BADLY) and Charlie made it home. He slid into home plate and stood up, looked at the crowd and gave everyone a double thumbs-up for a LONG TIME. It was precious. It will NEVER happen again quite like that.
He also had a great hit from a pitch AND got to play pitcher, which means that he worked VERY hard to keep the mound clean. We haven't gotten the idea that it is SO important because you field most of the slow balls AND have to know where to throw it. It was short lived, and we were also winning 18-5.
Here is the best part...Charlie got the game ball which means he was MVP for that game. Again, it was priceless.
