By Vivian Conrad | Senior Center Director
At our last family get-together, the older of our five grandsons headed outside for a round of kickball. Two-year-old Alexis decided that the boys were having more fun than the three girls who were playing in the house. She dropped her doll and toddled out to join the game.
Alexis did not know the rules of kickball, but she understood running. Every time one of the boys kicked the ball and took off toward first base, she was right behind him. She followed the runners around the bases, the fielders chasing grounders – when anyone took off, she headed in the same direction, her short legs pumping as fast as she could move them.
Her cousins, the oldest of them in kindergarten and first grade, just ignored the little girl and continued their game around her. But Alexis’s face shone with joy. She really thought she was playing with the big boys.
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