Proud Dad Moments?

[Boondock_St_Sker]

Oldest daughter, since getting her Masters degree and passing her Registered Dietician exam has submitted 18 applications/resumes and has had 5 interviews and 2 second interviews for jobs with D1 universities...LSU and UCF are her second interviews. She interviews with Vanderbilt tomorrow...let's hope she gets an offer soon boys!!!

 

[...TrueColors...]

My 8 year old and I get to the park tonight and his coach looks at him and says “You wanna pitch?” My son without hesitation said “Yes!”

He was suppose to pitch the other night but didn’t. So this was the first time he’d ever attempted to do this.

So on comes this big, tall, goofty lefty to the mound (not unlike his old man).

He strikes out the first kid he faced on 3 pitches. No swings taken.

He strikes out the next kid after a little bit of a battle.

And then he couldn’t whiff the zone 😂😂😂

He throws hard for his age. I simply didn’t expect it to go this well. But all of a sudden the things we’ve been trying to coach him to do he did when the lights were on. He was finishing his throws and pulling the ball down hard. I had no idea who was throwing for a minute.

 

[BluesBucksNHuskers]

My 8 year old and I get to the park tonight and his coach looks at him and says “You wanna pitch?” My son without hesitation said “Yes!”

He was suppose to pitch the other night but didn’t. So this was the first time he’d ever attempted to do this.

So on comes this big, tall, goofty lefty to the mound (not unlike his old man).

He strikes out the first kid he faced on 3 pitches. No swings taken.

He strikes out the next kid after a little bit of a battle.

And then he couldn’t whiff the zone 😂😂😂

He throws hard for his age. I simply didn’t expect it to go this well. But all of a sudden the things we’ve been trying to coach him to do he did when the lights were on. He was finishing his throws and pulling the ball down hard. I had no idea who was throwing for a minute.

Not many scarier moments in life than the first time your kid walks out to pitch 😂. Thats awesome!

 

[Jim14510]

After my complete freakout thread my kid ended up getting into Raikes from the waitlist.

 

[Jim14510]

Also made it to state in esports. League of Legends 5 seed. Have to play the 1 seed Lincoln East in the first round so probably an early exit.

I didn't even know he was doing this until about an hour ago.

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

After my complete freakout thread my kid ended up getting into Raikes from the waitlist.

Great news Jimbo!!

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

Also made it to state in esports. League of Legends 5 seed. Have to play the 1 seed Lincoln East in the first round so probably an early exit.

I didn't even know he was doing this until about an hour ago.

and now this

 

[alt f4]

My 6-year really became obsessed with baseball this last month. Before this obsession he could throw better than average for his age and catching was a struggle. Now we play catch and/or hit pretty much daily. He's improved a ton and we now play catch without a bad throw or dropped balls for a good period of time.

Today I setup our hitting net for him to work on pitching as I finished up work. I walk outside to see how he's doing and I hear "Huskers up 1 with 2 runners on, Sutton comes in to pitch... strike 1, strike 2, strike 3 and the Saltdogs win. Time for Fireworks Friday."

 

[BluesBucksNHuskers]

kiddo closed out a win in the last inning of a high scoring game with 3 strikeouts in 13 pitches. I don’t know if there’s much I enjoy more than when he gets this pumped after a sports moment.

 

[Pipe Line]

My daughter started her first 4 week segment of summer sports last night. Just turned 3 a few weeks ago. Soccer was last night. Major improvement. Last summer the practices were about an hour. Usually 4 different drill segments. She'd usually have some sort of emotional breakdown during each segment where she simply stopped playing and wanted to be held to run around and have me or mom kick the ball. Didn't happen at all last night. Better coordination, less clumsy running, no break downs. She wanted to keep playing once she took a breath and realized the other kids were playing with her. Fantastic.


Tee ball next week. They switch the sport each week. Last fall that went horribly, hoping for a little luck next week.

 

[BluesBucksNHuskers]

My daughter started her first 4 week segment of summer sports last night. Just turned 3 a few weeks ago. Soccer was last night. Major improvement. Last summer the practices were about an hour. Usually 4 different drill segments. She'd usually have some sort of emotional breakdown during each segment where she simply stopped playing and wanted to be held to run around and have me or mom kick the ball. Didn't happen at all last night. Better coordination, less clumsy running, no break downs. She wanted to keep playing once she took a breath and realized the other kids were playing with her. Fantastic.


Tee ball next week. They switch the sport each week. Last fall that went horribly, hoping for a little luck next week.

Haha tee ball from the little ones is great to watch. Complete chaos.

I legit think they could televise those games with announcers and it’d make for pretty good television.

I’d tune in to hear an MLB announcer say “#3 with a short dribbler back to the pitcher, and there’s a dog pile of toddlers on the pitchers mound! They still have plenty of time because #3 has ran into the dugout crying after all the parents yelled at her to run!”

 

[Pipe Line]

Haha tee ball from the little ones is great to watch. Complete chaos.

I legit think they could televise those games with announcers and it’d make for pretty good television.

I’d tune in to hear an MLB announcer say “#3 with a short dribbler back to the pitcher, and there’s a dog pile of toddlers on the pitchers mound! They still have plenty of time because #3 has ran into the dugout crying after all the parents yelled at her to run!”

Lol so my daughter has spent most of her week days at my mother in law's house from the time she was born until now. Cleaning and picking up your toys and keeping things organized is big on my wife's side of the family. It has trickled down to my now 3 year old. Last fall, during Tee Ball, she was much more concerned with picking up the balls that were hit, instead of her hitting, than the actual tee ball drills themselves. Me having my baseball background, and being super competitive, it drove me crazy lol, but I also knew doing tee ball that young was probably too soon to be productive at all.

 

[BluesBucksNHuskers]

Lol so my daughter has spent most of her week days at my mother in law's house from the time she was born until now. Cleaning and picking up your toys and keeping things organized is big on my wife's side of the family. It has trickled down to my now 3 year old. Last fall, during Tee Ball, she was much more concerned with picking up the balls that were hit, instead of her hitting, than the actual tee ball drills themselves. Me having my baseball background, and being super competitive, it drove me crazy lol, but I also knew doing tee ball that young was probably too soon to be productive at all.

Waverly does a version of tee ball called “Blast ball” which is pretty much just tee ball with one base.

I coached when my son was 5 which was actually pretty fun.

We played one game against a team and the Mom coaches plan was to have kids who didn’t care, play ring around the Rosie behind the mound while the game was going on. I told her “No problem, but when this kid and this kid are up, they can hit the ball pretty hard - can you have them at least watch the batter so they don’t get hit by the ball.” She kind of rolled her eyes but said that’s fine.

My kid comes up to bat, I remind her “might want to have them watch here” she waves me off. My son hits it, bounces off the side of this little girls head straight into the air, another kid catches it. Little girl is screaming bloody murder, my son is balling because he’s out, little boy who caught it is going wild because he caught the ball. What a fucking shit show.

 

[Pipe Line]

Waverly does a version of tee ball called “Blast ball” which is pretty much just tee ball with one base.

I coached when my son was 5 which was actually pretty fun.

We played one game against a team and the Mom coaches plan was to have kids who didn’t care, play ring around the Rosie behind the mound while the game was going on. I told her “No problem, but when this kid and this kid are up, they can hit the ball pretty hard - can you have them at least watch the batter so they don’t get hit by the ball.” She kind of rolled her eyes but said that’s fine.

My kid comes up to bat, I remind her “might want to have them watch here” she waves me off. My son hits it, bounces off the side of this little girls head straight into the air, another kid catches it. Little girl is screaming bloody murder, my son is balling because he’s out, little boy who caught it is going wild because he caught the ball. What a fucking shit show.

Just speaking for me personally, but at that point, I'm just lettin it ride lol

 

[Pipe Line]

Not a gigantic deal but going pretty smooth so far. My wife is out of town with her mom on a mission trip right now for church. Left Saturday about lunch time, won't be back until Friday shortly after I'm off work. Quite a bit of logistics for my 3 year old going on right now, but quite frankly she's handled everything like a champ so far. I know this is nothing unusual, but for this being only the second time for me and my daughter having basically a week to get through together, it's going very well. Knock on wood of course lol. Got stuff going on basically every evening until Friday so just passing the days at this point until mama comes home.

As Jim Gaffigan once, paraphrasing, said "Dads are basically the backup QB. You're on the team, and you're important, but everyone gets a little nervous when you're put in the game."


And as Will Compton says, let's get a win for the girl dads this week.

 

[HCFord1]

The other morning my 3 year old son walked into my room to wake me up before my alarm went off, and he was completely naked waist down. I asked what happened to his pants and he told me that he just pooped and needed help wiping.

I was a little bit out of it, but I remember thinking to myself “why is he eating a bag of cheez itz right now and where did he get them?” but I was tired so I just went into his room, wiped his butt and cleaned out the potty.

As I was flushing the poop down the toilet, he tells me “I touched the poop.” I asked what he touched the poop with and he said “my hand.” I asked him why he would do that and explained that we need to wash his hands because poop is full of germs and touching it can make you sick.

Anyway, the day goes by and that evening I go to sit on our couch when I notice a big brown smear on it. I say “what’s that?!” and immediately my son says “it’s poop.” Apparently he took a shit in the potty in his room, decided he would touch one of the poops, and then opened both baby gates on the stairs to go down and get a snack. He found the cheez itz but realized his hand was dirty so he wiped it off on the couch.

Super proud dad moment.

 

[Goskers07]

My son is walking with his chest puffed out a bit today. He's in T-Ball but they kind of do a bit of coach pitch as well. He was upset last week because he didn't get a hit off the coach when a couple of his friends did. So we went out and practiced a few basics this week and last night he had two very solid hits in his two at bats. He even flexed his arms after to show grandma how strong he was now.

Pretty cool moment because I think it actually clicked a bit for him how important practice is if you want to be good at something.

 

[BluesBucksNHuskers]

My son is walking with his chest puffed out a bit today. He's in T-Ball but they kind of do a bit of coach pitch as well. He was upset last week because he didn't get a hit off the coach when a couple of his friends did. So we went out and practiced a few basics this week and last night he had two very solid hits in his two at bats. He even flexed his arms after to show grandma how strong he was now.

Pretty cool moment because I think it actually clicked a bit for him how important practice is if you want to be good at something.

That’s awesome, the earlier you can connect the effort=output dots the better

 

[Goskers07]

That’s awesome, the earlier you can connect the effort=output dots the better

I'm hoping we are making headway. He's not the most confident kid in the world (I'm pretty sure that title belongs to our middle child). Once he knows how to do something he attacks it but if he struggles at all it really gets to him, so hoping he realizes the importance of continuing to put in effort.

 

[Pipe Line]

Proud moment(s) over the weekend, but also a little bitter sweet because my daughter is just growing up. Yesterday, running while the wife was out shopping at craft fairs, my daughter likes to listen to about the same 4-5 songs on repeat while we're out running around. The last couple months, she's butchered the words and the tones pretty badly lol but it's a hair better each time. Yesterday, noticeably better on pretty much every song, and even pronouncing and annunciating words better. Little things, but made me smile as I was driving and just letting her sing into the window.


She's growing up on me