Learning the "Natch"

I love sports.  Not all sports, but most of them.  And I love playing more than I love watching.  I'll try just about anything.  That said, I've tried not to push the sports too hard on the boys.  Despite being a rabid Wolverine fan, my boys don't know all the words to "The Victors." 

But, J...

J has sports in the core of his DNA.  He'll watch a sport on TV he's never heard of, and immediately figure out how to play it in the living room.  And he'll be good at it!  J has the practice discipline of an Olympian.  I've never met a four-year old who enjoyed practicing a sports move so much, and he's been doing that since he was two!  His throwing technique is excellent.  If you ask him how to throw a football, he won't say, "with my arm."  He'll say, "with my eyes."  Those who played QB will know he is right.

Today, he wanted to know what I was doing grunting in the basement.  When I told him, "dumbbell swings," he insisted I teach him.  So I did, and he practiced and practiced (using a toy bowling pin).  Then he overheard me saying that I wanted to learn how to snatch, and then asked endless questions about what a "natch" is.  So we spent about an hour, all told, looking at YouTube videos of great lifters.  First it was some Olympic snatching, and then it was to videos of "ree-yee ree-yee" (really, really) strong guys - Arnold, Coleman, Platz, more Olympic lifters.  Then he insisted on learning the one-arm bowling pin snatch.  I showed him.

Surprise, surprise ... after only a little practice, he's pretty good.

Crocodile Toots

M and J decided that the living room floor was the ocean, filled with crocodiles. The crocodiles had really stinky toots. How do crocodiles get stinky toots? From eating ocean sand frogs as said frogs (M and J) hop back and forth from North to South America.

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