Day 14 - Baseball and Bicycles

My youngest grandson, Tyler, who is 5 is playing T-Ball for the second year.  Last year, I was never able to make it to Seguin when he was having a game so this year it became a must that I see at least one of his games before I got voted world's worst Nana.  So this morning at 9:00 I was at the field to cheer on the Roadrunners and what fun it was!  Watching those cute little boys scramble like fire ants for the ball no matter if their assigned position was on the other side of the field was just too cute.  Tyler did such a good job throwing the ball and got a couple of hits, the second being a home run!  It was very exciting to get to share this with him and give him support at something he is loving to do!  So I've now seen him play T-Ball and hit a homerun.

Tyler going to hind catcher position

After we got back to the house after lunch, Tyler wanted his dad to take his training wheels off his bike so he could ride like a big boy.  (His cousin Clay who is about 9 months older than Tyler, learned to ride without his training wheels recently, and I think Tyler decided he had to prove he is just as big as Clay!)  So the training wheels came off, and Ty ran in the house to get his mother and me to come watch him ride without them.  I suggested he might want to put on long pants since he was riding on a gravel driveway, but he assured me he wasn't going to fall.  Sure enough, with a little help in getting the pedals in good position to begin, he took off and never looked back--it appeared he had been riding like a big boy his entire life!  That was a fun first to get to him accomplish--he was so proud of himself.

Big boy bicycle riding

My reflection as I was driving home is anxious we are to see our little ones learn to do "big" boy and girl things while somewhere within us in an unspoken place, we don't want to see them grow up from this sweet innocent stage of childhood to where they don't need our help as much and begin to seek more and more independence.  We all know that is the healthy way to raise children, but in all parents (and grandparents) there still remains that yearning for our sweet innocent babies.

A Boy and his dog