Hey Batter Batter

You really never realize how quickly kids can pick up on things. The U watches the Texas Rangers religiously (as in almost daily), so it shouldn't have been a huge surprise when HUT decided to take the $1 plastic baseball bat that we got him and start swinging.

But then he took it a step further.

Once we cheered at his swing, he dropped his bat and took off running. Apparently, in his mind, he's already hitting homers. We immediately went to Amazon and purchased this fun toy for our backyard shenanigans...

Little Tikes TotSports T-Ball Set

Now he refuses to "hit" his pretend ball unless we say "bababababa" or, in our terms, "hey batter, batter, batter, SWING!" Here is a video that I half-assed tried to edit on my compjuter of HUT in full action (we got a little excited, so it's pretty loud, just to warn you)!