It is now time for the first time in our household for Upward Basketball. You know, we are from KY. We went to UK. If there is any sport out there that we know about it is basketball. We have two different basketball goals set up in the boys' room. We have games all the time. So, we would naturally think that Ethan will enjoy basketball. Well, we have had practice three times so far; yesterday we had scrimmage. Please, let the laughter begin.
The past three practices the kids have been introduced to dribbling, passing, shooting, etc. The coach asks the question: "Who dribbles with their right hand?" Ethan raises his hand. " Who dribbles with their left hand?" Ethan raises his hand. Then Ethan starts: "I actually dribble with both hands..." May I mention here-we play on carpet, not much dribbling period. But hey, whatever he thinks.
The kids have been learning defense and offense as well as man-to-man. Ethan's "man" is a tiny sweet little girl who doesn't even go up to his chin. They are supposed to stay with each other and guard each other. During the scrimmage I see Ethan and this little girl talking, standing still with the little girl's hands up in defense mode, actually Ethan telling this girl what he thinks: you need to scoot back, you need to leave me alone. Needless to say, Ethan doesn't appreciate the defense that this little girl is giving him.
Now, we hear the coach tell them, "Get open, get open!!" Ethan does just that, he runs in circles with this little girl chasing him, ending up on the opposite side of the court-completely OBLIVIOUS to the fact that there is a ball that is being thown around them and he is needing to catch it and shoot.
Ethan is a great encourager though. He ends up with the ball, yes miracle in itself, and instead of shooting he throws it to a little girl on his team that is basically the Michael Jordan of the team. He tells her, "Shoot McCall!!! Way to go!!!!" Um, shall we say nonselfish player? I mean, we don't have a ball-hog on our hands, but we have had to talk about being a little bit more aggressive on the court. At one point the ball was almost in between Ethan's legs and he never even looked down to grab it. He told me he never saw it. I don't think we have an Anthony Davis on our hands here, but who knows.
Tomorrow is Linley's first bday party along with the first bball game. Today we had to decorate at the church so we head there for most of the afternoon. It didn't go as planned. I thought, "Hey, I'll let the kids take their scooters, run around, get tired, and we'll be ready to go." Well, that worked, for about 15 minutes. But, Linley Claire had a different plan. She would crawl around crying at the top of her lungs. How can I hang up anything while holding a baby? So, snack time. They are like wolves, they smell it and they all come. So now, everyone is having snack. Then, Caleb thinks Linley needs more goldfish, and then Linley thinks Caleb is so funny that she is going to smash her goldfish and toss them about. Now, everyone has to clean up. So Ethan grabs a broom, Caleb a mop, and Linley stays in her chair laughing being entertained. Ugh. After almost two hours of hanging up and moving stuff around it's finally time to go home. Caleb and Ethan are of course thirsty so they head to the kitchen. Linley is drawn to the church kitchen, I don't know what it is, but if that door is open and she is crawling she is in there. Well, she and Caleb were in there...together...and Caleb found a water bottle. I run in to get Linley and there is Caleb and Linley, Linley mouth open, Caleb squirting water in it. WHAT!!!!!! No telling how long that water bottle had been in that kitchen. So, being the paranoid Mom, I squirted some in my mouth to make sure it was water and it wasn't poisonous. Can we please go home now? Oh, mention here that halfway through the decorating Caleb has an accident and he ends up with no underwear on, surprise surprise I know.
Tonight after supper Ethan and Caleb are playing forts. Ethan makes rules up:1. Caleb, you have to wear a shirt to come in the fort. Caleb goes to put on shirt. 2. Caleb, your underwear must not be on backwards to come in (Caleb likes his underwear on backwards, yes strange). My reply, Ethan, you don't have to worry about backwards underwear, he's not even wearing any.
Tomorrow shall be an entertaining day with the first ball game and first birthday party for Linley.
