Let's Play Ball!

Andrew is doing the Eden Prairie Rookie Camp this month, an introduction to t-ball for 4-5 year olds.  I've heard t-ball is tricky at this age because they don't have the attention span for it so this camp has been great.  They start each Saturday morning (at 8:30 in our case) by singing the national anthem.  Then they rotate through 4 stations and end with singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame.  Each week they also get something special-a baseball, water bottle, pennant and medal. 

This last week was particularly entertaining because two of his stations were playing an inning of a game.  Andrew was second up to bat.  He waited patiently for his turn, watching the first batter.  As soon as that batter hit the ball, Andrew took off running full speed ahead for first base.  I'm not sure why-maybe the coach has said that as soon as the ball was hit, he should take off running and he didn't understand that the coach meant the ball HE (Andrew) hit.  In any case, it was pretty cute.  After his team batted, he got to play second base.  He has a pretty good swing and hits the ball well.  During camp, he's improved on throwing and this last week, successfully aimed and threw several balls into a fishing net that was staked into the ground.