Sunday, August 31, 2014

Inventing Sports

Jonah loves playing sports.  We went to two birthday parties and he spent the entirety of both playing baseball, soccer and basketball!  I was quite impressed by his boldness to walk onto a basketball court to pick up a ball and start "dribbling"... in the middle of a bunch of adults shooting hoops!  Fortunately, the adults were extremely toddler-conscience and made a game of defending any little people who stepped onto the court.  Or they stopped to help Jonah dribble or shoot.  Jonah even got a few of them to throw the wiffle ball for him to bat - and made contact a few times!

Jonah doesn't stop at regulation - kid-sized versions of - sanctioned sports.  Anything involving a ball and stick will do.  He invents new games all the time at home with whatever he can find: a golf ball and stick, a paint stirrer and small plastic ball, a colander and basketball.  If he can hit with it, he will!