My dad came down from PA for a visit this week.  Jerry loves his pappy!  We went to Busch Gardens and Al Lopez park with him and Jerry has kept him very busy when we've had "down time" at home.  Pappy fixed his bike for him and has picthed probably two-hundred baseballs to him since he got here on Sunday!! 

Bumper Cars with Jonathan

Busch Gardens with Pappy

Fixing His Bike

Al Lopez

Jeremiah LOVES baseball and has shown quite a talent when it comes to batting.  He connects with the ball nearly every time and swings with all his might to really put the ball out there.  It's quite dangerous actually to pitch to him.  We've mastered the pitch, duck, and cover maneuver quite well!  Once, when John wasn't fast enough, he ended up with a swollen eye and his glasses bent in half!  And that was from a wiffle ball!

Anyway, we've learned to take what Jeremiah's good at and run with it.  There are so many things he doesn't do as well at when compared to his friends and siblings that we make a really big deal of those things he does well.  And baseball is one of them.  We called our friend who runs our local little league association and we actually called on the last day to sign up for the spring season of t -ball.  That was God's timing!  John took him right over and signed him up and his first practice was last night.  He loves coach Jeff and was oh so proud to have his pappy watching him last night.  We were all there...grandma and grandpa too.  He wasn't thrilled about batting off the tee, but they will give him five tries without it before he needs to use it in a game.  He won't need five tries!

He's very excited and so are we.  At this point, there are no real rules...everyone gets to bat until they hit the ball and no one gets out, but the structure and teamwork he will learn will be good for him.  Learning to take turns will be HUGE!  He was cute last night.  He stood at third base with his glove and talked away...to himself I think as it did not appear that anyone else was listening!

Here are some pictures.  I will spare you the one of him wearing his briefs with built-in "cup" OVER his baseball pants!  He dressed himself and then announced, "I'm ready!"

Jerry & Coach Jeff