Three Year Old's Hit the Tennis Courts

One of the funniest things ever has to be watching 3-year-old's learn to play tennis. Rackets, balls and confused little kids all running around the tennis courts, while coaches try to get them involved in games. But all they want to do is throw balls at one another. They could care less about hitting a ball over the net.

Really, their tennis class is just a bunch of fun games, preparing them for tennis in the future. They do practice hitting the balls so they can get a "feel" for it, but it doesn't really matter if they get it over the net or not. We're blessed to have an awesome tennis coach who loves the kids and they just adore him.

Esther is doing much better in the class than Emma. She's much more focused and driven. Emma, on the other hand, is all about having fun. She's happy to hit the ball with her racket, but she gets bored when she has to wait her turn in line. She's busy busy busy! Emma did actually play today which was nice since the last few weeks she hasn't wanted to play at all. When she found out that Esther was going to tennis, and she wasn't, she put up a pretty good fit. I gave her one last chance to prove herself today, and prove herself she did.

They both played well. Of course, we took our annual trip to the potty like every week. I made sure that they went potty before we left, but sure enough not 5 minutes after class had started, Emma had to go. So, go we did. Come back to the tennis courts and Esther is demonstrating the "I have to potty NOW" dance. So, back to the bathrooms we went. On our way back we ran into our beloved swim teacher Mr. Phil. Just a few months back the very mention of his name would send Esther into crying spells.. "Not the Mr. Phil who makes me swim!!" (See back to our June & July posts on that issue) But, Esther saw Mr. Phil and gave him a huge hug and proceeded to tell him all about her swimming and how much she loves it. She walked away happy, but the poor kid who had swimming lessons next, wasn't too excited.

The girls are SO different. Esther is much more athletic and sporty, while Emma's definitely prissy and girly. Ess loves to kick balls around. Em loves to dress up her baby dolls. So, maybe we'll start the girls in gymnastics soon.

Anyways, enjoy the mayhem....










Emma told me, "Sera, I need your sunglasses because the sun is hurting my eyes." And if I gave her a pair, I would need to give Esther a pair, so I conceded. Here's how they look. =)