Kevin: He had the best line of the weekend so far this morning when he woke up ‘I woke up and it wasn’t a dream…the Seahawks did win!”.
Anyway, the Winter Walden ski adventures are still going. The program has levels you progress through as you take lessons and Kevin has said he’s just a little bit shy of reaching the end of the levels. Some days (like this Saturday), they offer a ski competition where an adult racer sets the time down the course and the kids follow the same course and see how they can do.
Like everything (for the most part) now; you can find his results online.
I have no idea what the handicap means or how it’s calculated and I assume that the times listed are in the order that he attempted them. I’ll have to ask him about the handicaps. I really like that he can do this and he’s gotten good at it; I’ve never been skiing and am sure that I never will at this point….
Christopher: So, after the game, as we’re shaking hands, the Dewitt coach says “you know, it’s not really fair that our teams are in the same division…I’m not sure why they do that….maybe you guys should be in a different division”.
Ummm, we are in the right league. The Dewitt basketball ‘gods’ decided to move their 4th grade team to a different league and have their third graders play in our league, which is primarily (but not exclusively), fourth graders. So, at halftime, when the score is 26-2, well, the game is effectively over and we’re just going through the motions in the second half.
Cpher had four of our first six points and had an ungodly amount of rebounds; this will happen when you are at least a foot taller than most of the kids on the other team. He’s really becoming more comfortable with the game and what he’s supposed to do; it’s fun to watch.
Matthew: The first game of the rec league was about 90 minutes after the end of Cpher’s game. Matthew made two baskets, one close-in and one jumper from long-range.
I didn’t sit next to Suzanne during the game (dragooned for volunteer-scoreboard duty) but she mentioned afterwards just how much Matthew wants to go the right. He’s a rightie, it’s natural, but, man, if he was on the left, he would, every time, dribble around the perimeter to get over to the right before even thinking about taking a shot.
At this age (still beginner basketball..,.,Christopher could be playing here and watching this game really really made me glad that I had Christopher try out for the competitive team…) you can’t steal, you can only pick off passes. Matthew is all into this; probably to the detriment of his overall defense, if he misses the pass his guy is going to go right by him. Overall, he’s in the top quarter in terms of size so when he’s guarding someone he does a pretty decent job of it.
No game next weekend (no games on weekends when school is out on the Fri or Mon) but two the week after…..
