How is it all going?
Are you seeing a change in your boys...er, uh men??

Hey Shortstopmom,

Mine added about 8 pounds of muscle and seems to be enjoying the school as well as the baseball program. It is down time now, no organized training until January. I believe that he is continuing to work on his own though, he went to a strength and speed coach last night that we had help with his rehab after surgery. I bought a big block of visits that were not completely used up yet so he headed 140 miles to Tampa after classes and spent some time with the trainer there and visited his first hitting instructor that has a place just upstairs from the speed training place and hit a couple rounds. I am sure that he had a great time, and I bet that his old hitting instructor enjoyed himself too. He started seeing him when he was 9 and he is 19 now. He has seen my boy grow.

big change in my son he went from 225lb down to 195lb and has started creeping back up. he looks really good and enjoying college and baseball alot right now. i couldn't be happier for him!

My son beat me at arm wrestling for the first time. He's up from 196 to 205, all of it muscle. He was noticeably more confident and mature in family discussions over the holidays. I even overheard him talk about a couple of girls whom he called "close acquaintances". Before, he would have called them just friends. He seems to hang out with baseball players, mostly. He's popular because he says he's got the best fake ID, but I hope he's just kidding me. In the fall baseball games which was the first time I got to see him since he went off to college, I could tell he was still physically maturing compared to the upperclassmen, but I think the difference will become marginal in the near future.