Future Baseball Star?

From the looks of Caed's LEFT-HANDED throwing arm, a future baseball star might be in our midst. It all started a few weeks ago when he and I were sitting on the floor attempting to roll a ball back and forth. Although it seemed as if it were an accident when he pushed the ball back to me ... after several consecutive rolls, I realized that everything he was doing WAS intentional. Now, he can roll several different sized balls back and forth, and has graduated to throwing!


As you can see, he throws smaller balls fairly well, but when it takes two hands to throw, he can't quite get it out of his hands in time to throw forward.

It's funny how impressionable Caed is right now. We were at the pool yesterday, and we were playing with a 3 1/2-year-old girl and she wanted to play catch with Caed's ball. What an arm she had! She would take the ball over her head and launch it forward. I would catch the ball for Caed and then he would do the best he could releasing it from both hands. (The ball was too big for one hand.) Later on that evening at community group, we were playing on the floor and low and behold, guess how Caed was trying to throw the ball? With both hands over his head! Unfortunately, he didn't have the same outcome as the little girl and the ball fell behind him each time. But the look of determination on his face was priceless.

Splish Splash

We bought a new pool for Caed yesterday. He loves the water and played in a similar one with Mason at the Lizotte's house a few weeks ago, so we thought that it would be fun to have one of our own to use in "our" backyard. We have quite a bit of space out there, but with a 10 month old, you can't just hang out back there with nothing to do, so for the summer, a pool is a great option.

Caed loved the pool, but sadly the mosquitoes loved Caed too. We'll need to figure out a solution for this before we go back out there. But ... we still had fun today!

When Caed had enough of the water, he decided it would be fun to push the stroller around the backyard. All I did was stand behind him to make sure he didn't have any major spills, and he did all the walking himself! I can't believe it! He's growing up SO fast!