Summer Games

It seems that with summer you have the ever present games that come with it. For me one of those is baseball. Tonight we went outside and let Zach play around on the grass and sidewalk and as well with the little kids that were down there.

One of the kids who was older (his name is Elijah, and yes all the kids were black kids which I think is totally awesome, I didn't grow up around kids of any different ethnicity from my own) was hitting the old ball around with a bat. It was fun to see a 7 year old playing the game that I played for 10 years of my own life.

From the perspective of adult and now person looking back at my own experience at that age he was doing it all wrong. I didn't want to teach him to hit well enough to break my car windows, but well I couldn't stand to see him suffer so many misses. He was trying to maul the ball with his swings and his footing was all over the place. So I showed him how to do it better and well he did it better. Hit my kid, car and nailed a window. Luckily he is still a small kid and the one that got Zach was innocuous, and well the window was lucky to not have been broken.

I think that it is a law of nature that when a kid hits a ball around with a bat that the ball will hit a window or something that just doesn't need to be hit. Oh well.

Zach had a lot of fun down there, he got to watch the bigger kids do their thing...He is really a lot like myself. I am a sit back and watch the crowd and other people type person. I am shy but only initially, and Zach is shaping up to be like myself. I guess I am his father and he is around me all the time. He is shaping up to be a lot like us (he is even showing to have the same growth patterns that I did. He is hitting a big growth spurt at the same time that I did (18 months)).

Alison went to the doctors again today and everything is going well. So good times there. I went to work and got my project moving a bit more forward again after we had so many appointments last week (8, this week we are up to 4).

I am as well getting close to publishing the website that has been to long in the making. Oh well. That is life, things are definitely going well for us.