Daddy Time
So with only four weeks to go until YMCA baseball starts, I decided that it was a good idea to start practicing with Tyler (seeing as how he can barely throw). We were going over the mechanics of throwing (in a way that a seven year old understands).
"OK, now throw it to me."
"No, you're trying to throw it too hard, that's why it slipped off your fingers and landed three feet away. Try it again."
"No, now you're not throwing it hard enough. Try to get it PAST your shoelaces"
"No, now you're trying to hard again, here let me show you. OK...got it...try it again. OK, technically it made it PAST your shoelaces this time".
After about 30 minutes of this, we started to get a nice game of catch going. I'm trying to teach him how to get underneath the ball and he's trying to be Mr. Gold Glove "Let me pose for the camera while I catch this backhanded".
Three weeks, six days until the first game. I've got some work to do. ;-)
Comments
You waited this long? :)
Posted by: Dan Isaacs | May 31, 2003 1:00 AM
He wasn't sure he was going to play until this afternoon (two hours before the deadline). So the Mrs. goes at Mach 75 to Wal-Mart to get the basic bat/ball/glove and we start a-throwing.
Yeah, we've got some things to do together and they should have been done before now. He's getting to the point where it's cool to be around dad (especially with some of the other dads in the neighborhood who bounce between Psychoic and Non-Existant).
Posted by: Brian | May 31, 2003 1:05 AM