It's basketball season. Basketball is the only team sport the boy participates in. He attends Cross Fire basketball camp in the summer then plays church league Upward basketball Dec through Feb. It is good for him and he has a good time. This year his age group is so small there are only two teams so he plays the same team each week. It was like that last year too, but this year apparently there is also a coach shortage as both teams share a coach - practice and scrimmage with each other each week as well. He doesn't seem to mind. He is no stellar athlete but he tries hard. Never been a great shooter but he usually gets a basket or two per game. What he does pretty darned well is defense. He scapes and scrambles with the best of them and keeps the player matched against him running the whole game. Not a bad ball handler either, though sometimes he is not as tuned in to the passing game as he should be. He is the third shortest player on the court. But the cutest...

These pics are from the first game of the season.

Pre-game prayer (boy forgot to kneel)


And the season shocker, my boy got the first basket of the year by either team. For his team he was the only scorer for quite a while.


This past week he tied his career high with five baskets. It was FANTASTIC! :)