Apr 14 2012
We’ve Created a Monster
A Baseball Monster. (Well, all sports, really, but this post will focus on baseball.)
Most toddlers ask for Elmo or Blue’s Clue’s or the like on TV. Sam does like those shows, but 9 times out of 10, he first asks for baseball, basketball, or football on tv. (Here is where you laugh at me for thanking goodness for all those sports channels we pay for – we can usually oblige his request.)
He LOVES watching his brothers play ball.
shots from early season games
He makes every game into baseball. Anything long enough to swing becomes a baseball bat, any ball becomes a baseball, and any hat becomes a baseball “hehmet.” Most mornings he wakes up asking about baseball games, and most nights he goes to sleep telling me about baseball games.
backyard baseball (and a couple more of him watching Bubba play)
But the crowning gem? The other night as I was putting him to bed, I sang our usual night-night songs (the Sh’ma and La La Lu) and as I tucked him in, he looked up at me and very sweetly said, “Mommy, out ballpark.”
“What, baby?” I asked.
“Mommy. Sing, Out Ballpark.”
“You want me to sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’?”
“Yes.”
So, I sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” Twice. And he went to sleep a happy boy.