Ninja-Like Baseball Moves

This year Riley is in a tee wee baseball.  It's a little more organized than last year and we have games.  Ryan also gets the privilege of helping coach…which, I'll admit, I wasn't sure how he would handle ten 4 and 5 year olds…but he does great.  Although the first practice the children looked at him like he was frankenstein.

When this whole baseball thing came into our life…I really thought that Ryan would be the angry parent, yelling and pacing on the sidelines, turns out I'm the idiot.  I will refer you to the link below:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/7e583517e5/will-ferrell-get-on-the-bag

It's like torture watching from the side…while your kid is drawing in the sand or doing some sort of unexplainable karate moves??? (see below)  So this year instead of yelling like will ferrell did, I found a more creative way to direct Riley…

"HERE COMES THE BALL…RIGHT TO YOU RILEY!!!!"
"RILEY!  WAY TO GET ON THE BASE!"
"KEEP WATCHING THAT BALL!"

I tried to keep the urgency out of my voice and sound pleasant, calm and understanding…

To be quite honest, it was chaotic and hilarious, but the kids had a lot of fun, except for the few who decided they were done at the end and either sat down or walk around the bases.  

Riley hit the ball every time, ran as fast as he could (bift it one time) and had some good grounding stops.