Sep 25th, 2006
Tennis
This morning Colin turned the TV on and of course daddy had left it on ESPN so first we watched some football and then they showed some tennis highlights. Colin got super excited and said “tennis…tiny, yellow ball.” I said yes, they do play tennis with a yellow ball - then I asked Colin if he would like to play and he said “Yes, yes, yes… oh boy, oh boy”. I told him Daddy could play with him when he got home. We called Chuck and work and Colin got on the phone right away and said “Daddy - play tennis.” Of course then we had to wait until 6 for Daddy to get home. Colin talked about playing tennis all day - ALL day.
When Chuck got home they went right outside to play - but it didn’t go so well. I could just hear Colin screaming about something, but we still aren’t sure what. He wanted to treat the racquet and ball like a golf club and golf ball and whenever we would throw the ball to him and it would hit the racquet he would just freak out - screaming and crying. So much for the first tennis lesson. I think he wants to move on to golf.
One other note. The other day I was reading the paper while Colin was eating and he goes “Mama…President Bush” I looked on the opposite page, and sure enough there was Bush. Immediately after I said, yep that is President Bush Colin goes “Mama….Boooooo”. Ah, our little liberal 