Daddy signed John up for instructional Tee-Ball.  This Saturday was his first session.  We got there early.  John and Gillian had plenty of time to play on the playground and make a few new friends.  Aunt Betty arrived just in time for John’s first session.  We went to the field and John met his coaches and teammates.  They started by running all the bases and learning all the names of the bases.  Then each kid got a chance at bat.  When John went up to bat, he hit righty and had a hard time. 

Next they got split into two teams.  John was on the orange team and his team got to go up to bat first.  The coach lined up four tees and each kid stood by a tee.  We made sure that John told the coach “I’m a lefty!”  John had a much easier time hitting lefty. 

He hit the ball three times and as you can see at the end of the video, he was really impressed that one coach kept catching his ball.  Then they switched and the other team got to hit the ball.  John was very patient and well behaved in the dugout. 

Then John’s team got up at bat.  And this time, the other team was in the outfield.  They were each given one person to watch and they had to catch their partner’s ball.  John did great in the outfield.  He knew exactly which ball to watch and went running for it. 

    
The last thing they did was my favorite.  Everyone got a chance up at bat.  Once they hit the ball, and put down the bat, they had to run the bases.  Then the coach would motion to the kids in the “dugout” and they would chase after him. 

Daddy got the best video of John in slow motion.  Check out that form!

We had a great time at tee-ball.  I am looking forward to next week.