A Mitt, too!

Jackson is really getting into baseball these days. He has been playing with his bat & ball outside and is getting really good at hitting the ball. In fact, he about took my head off with a ball one day! This is fun to me because we are a "baseball family". We, meaning, my side of the family. My brother & all my cousins played baseball & i grew up at the ball field. I played softball myself for one year & loved it (but was too chicken to play another year without my sister!) Randy, on the other hand was part of a "basketball family." He grew up living, breathing, & playing basketball & was an excellent player, i might add. So, he says he has a lot to learn if Jackson is going to be a baseball player!

We went to visit Grandaddy & Grandma Tee in Wilmington a couple of weekends ago and the subject of Jackson's growing love of baseball came up. Grandaddy said that Kenneth had outgrown his first baseball mitt that Uncle Jeff had given him. So they went & gave it to Jackson! He was thrilled & Grandaddy showed him a few things about trying to close his hand in the mitt at just the right time when the ball hits the mitt.
They even let Jackson & Kenneth practice in the house. Seriously, this would have never flown when i was a kid. I guess Grandkids really do get away with everything we never did, eh?
And of course, little man wanted a part of the action.... they actually had a bag of mitts from the garage & he picked one out to try out...
So, Grandaddy showed him a thing or two, too!