Southpaw

It's baseball season. This year we're playing in a coach-pitch league instead of T-ball. It's really challenging, which I think is good since it keeps Tyler awake. He has really improved a lot since they started practice just three weeks ago. He can throw about twice as far now, and he is learning the importance of running fast. He got a new mitt which he's very proud of, but it didn't improve his catching like I thought it would. We definitely don't practice the way other kids and parents do. The three times a week with the team are just about all we've got in us. But there's another kid on his team who has the same mitt, only for a right handed player. At the last practice, Tyler took Zane's mitt out to the field while Zane was hitting and practiced an entire inning at first base using a right handed player's mitt, throwing with his right hand. Then yesterday at the Opening Day ceremony, Tyler took a try at the pitching game and threw the baseball at a target using his right hand. He missed horribly but I had to laugh at how it never even occurred to him that it felt odd. So now I'm back to reminding him which hand to use for writing, throwing, hitting, etc. and realizing he is pretty darn ambidextrous.