Balloon Baseball

Today was my daddy day. Of course I had to take Tobias to school first and after that Lorelei and I kind of have our own little routine. We come home, I make some coffee and we sit on the couch and read (mostly Miffy these days…). Well, today was different, because Lorelei said (without any prompting): “Ik wil niet boetie lezen want ik wil boon baseball pelen.” (“I don’t want to read a book because I want to play balloon baseball” written with the pronounciation mistakes only in Dutch, because I find that also quite hard to convey in English… well, balloon baseball sounds like boon baseball, but the rest was in Dutch…). Balloon Baseball is something Tobias and I play a lot. It is basically hitting a balloon with some object like a sword (like in this picture) or a stick or something… then, it you hit it, running to the scratching post without getting tapped by the balloon…

Apparently Lorelei had been watching us closely because this is what happened:
- Lorelei got the balloon and gave it to me
- Lorelei got the sword
- Lorelei positioned me somewhere in the middle of the living room saying: “You stand here papa”
- Lorelei positioned herself on the carpet
- Lorelei said “Frow the boon papa” so I did
- Lorelei hit the balloon and dropped the sword on the carpet
- Lorelei ran towards the scratching post and stopped halfway
- Lorelei turned around, picked up the sword and threw it just beside the carpet (pretty much the exact spot where Tobias throws it)
- Lorelei ran to the scratching post
- Lorelei raised her arms and yelled “I won papa!”

x 100 .