Lil' N is a commited little guy. Whenever he decides he wants to be good at something...he will work at it till he's stellar. 2 years ago, he found a hoola hoop at Grandma's house. He didn't know how to use it, so he had someone show him how to use. Then he spent the next 8 hours practicing until he could do a hoola hoop...and do it well. He's started to be that way about basketball. He spend hours outside trying to make a shot. He's drastically improving. He has done it with his dance games...he can beat anyone he knows.
His new obsession is tetherball (doesn't that take you back? I loved tetherball). Anyway, he's unfortunately the shortest kid in his grade, and so he's at a significant disadvantage in the game due to his height. We were in the car on the way to church, and he said to me, "This kid at school says I'm easy to beat in tetherball. It makes me feel bad."
You can imagine how sad that made me feel.
Then he said, "So, I'm going to ask Santa for a tetherball so I can practice a lot and a lot. Then, they won't say I'm easy...they'll have to say I'm reall hard to beat!"
That's my boy.
Guess Santa'll be bringing a tetherball...he has to practice, right?
First-- Make sure the your boys all know that Gabriel's & Garrett's grandma says they did a terrific job (just in case Brent forgot to tell them).
ReplyDeleteSecond-- I LOVED tether ball . . . in the late fifties. The balls had a hard plate in the top of them back then and boy did it hurt when you hit that accidentally. One of the hardest one to beat was not very tall. He had fantastic control so tell Lil N he can do that!
Oh yeah...Santa's pretty much committed to that one, isn't he?
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