Now that school is over for the year, Ledger's got a lot of free time on his hands... Sure, we loosened the screen time limits for him, which fills up most of his days. But he still needs to get out and about sometimes. Neither of us are what you might call 'outdoor people', but we needed to do something. This has lead us to be a bit creative with filling the time. Back when Jeffrey Lee was with us, we would go together with Jon and do some disc golfing. A couple years ago Diana got me a set of discs to use when we went out, but it's been sitting in the basement collecting dust. I figured it was time to take it out and give it a try with the boy! We took the discs into the backyard, along with an audience of Diana and Wiggins. It took a little getting used to, but pretty soon he started getting the hang of it. Neither one of us is planning on turning pro, but we did have a fun time of it!
Another one we tried is tennis. Ledger showed some interest in it at the end of the school year, so I found him a racket and we picked up a sleeve of tennis balls. One afternoon we wrote our bikes over to school and used one of it's walls to do some tennis practice. Ledge was excited about the prospect of becoming an ace tennis pro. And then he hit the ball. It took about 10 seconds to realize that this was not the sport for him. He hit the ball three or four times and he was completely over it. I made him stick with it and keep trying (with my help) for at least 20 minutes, but it was very clear that he had absolutely no interest in continuing our little tennis lesson. Oh well, it was worth a try, right?
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