Baseball

I've written about how cute Kimmie is running around with her football under her right arm and her left arm out in front to knock down anyone in her way. Since I've written about football, I thought I should write about baseball. Baseball is actually her favorite sport.

She gets her bat and she gets into position to bat. Amazingly, the part of baseball that she is the best at is working to dig a hole for her back foot to rest in while she is batting. She works and works her foot attempting to dig a hole in the family room rug. We're not sure how or why she fixated on this goofy, idiosyncratic part of batting, but she spends most of her time working her foot on the rug. I suppose she has seen this on television, but we don't watch baseball very often.

When she finally "swings" (not sure you can really call what she does a swing, but she does move the bat) at the imaginary ball, then she has to stop and tell us that she has hit the ball. She drops the bat and runs. Her running is more of a back and forth pattern rather than a circle-the-bases type movement. Sometimes in the middle of her running the bases she catches the ball, stops and declares herself the winner.

I don't think she quite understands that one team bats and the other team catches the ball, and then they switch.

But she sure is cute and funny.

--Mom

PS. She received a full size football for Christmas. She thinks she's really big now when she plays. Her little arm sticks almost straight out with the bigger ball under it.