So Many Sports, So Little Time

It's no secret that Justin and I love sports! We always have and still do. So even though we don't want to force our children to play sports necessarily (we'd be happy if they did music, dance, robot building club, or whatever) it just seems to sort of happen naturally with our family. Sports are just part of life for us, so we'd be lying if we said we weren't super excited that Nolan seems to love playing with balls and watching sports on TV. And we're happy to teach him all we know ☺

Here's a sampling of what Nolan has been learning and experiencing in the sports world lately.

Baseball

First you have to be a loyal fan. Go Mariners (and Giants!)

He hasn't yet learned how to actually swing a bat and hit a ball, BUT he kind of knows what to do. He'll take a bat and ball (or a ball and racket, etc) and bang them together because he knows you have to hit the ball for it to go haha. 

"Put me in coach! I'm ready!"

Justin took Nolan to a small field and showed him how to run the bases. If his parents have anything to do with it, Nolan will definitely NOT be one of those kids the first day of t-ball that runs to third base instead of first ☺

But we still have a bit of work to do on that front ☺

  

I love how he 'tags' the base

Hockey

Go Penguins!

Nolan is learning there's nothing like playoff hockey! I love how right now he 'plays hockey' by hitting his stick on the ground (or sometimes on his leg, ouch!).

   

Sometimes you just have to eat while watching a game (only sometimes).


Especially when your team wins the Stanley Cup! GO PENGUINS!!




Nolan even got to stay up late one night to watch the Penguins play!
We had put him to bed and about 15 minutes later heard him yelling "hockey!" from his room. When I went in he repeated it again and pointed to the door. Sure it was probably a stall tactic, but how could I resist a son that wants to watch hockey?!!

Football

Nolan loves playing "Hike!" with daddy. Can you imagine a quarterback reacting this way to the ball being hiked to him? ☺

 Bowling

I think he liked it AND he got a spare!!

Hangin' with the girls between turns (Sara, Lis, Sue, Brittany)

Tetherball

According to Justin, he rocked it on the tetherball court in elementary school and needs to pass on the skills to his son :)