YMCA basketball

Well, the season is almost over and it has been quite an adventure. Zander started out the season crying all the way through practice. The first several games we had to be on the court with him for him to go out there. He was very afraid of all of the noise in the gyms. He has gotten used to it now and only looks at me for support when he hears the buzzer and he has learned that he can cover his ears.
I have really enjoyed watching the kids. Their attention span is very short and they are crawling or rolling around on the floor as much as they play.
His pictures are really cute but if you look closely, you will see that he is bawling. His daddy had to get in the picture with him just for him to take the picture. I think next year will be better because he will know what to expect.
Dare we try soccer?

Let the jumping begin

What a cool idea! Some brilliant person decided that it would be fun to by a bunch of the big jumpers and rent them for birthday parties, etc. We went one time when Zander was about 18 months old, but this time was much more fun. They have an obstacle course, slide, jumping house and jousting house. Zander had a hard time with the climbing so Summers and I had to help. I think that we had more fun than the children did. We had alot of fun jousting. Unfortunately, it is so expensive that most people can't take advantage of it. We now have two different companies doing this in our area. Wish I had thought of it!

Pump It Up

Santa

Zander's first Christmas




How cute! Zander with Santa at 3. I will have to find last years picture, I am not sure where it is.

Go Tarheels, Go!!

Last week, four UNC basketball tickets fell into my hands. I had been trying to get tickets all season and there either weren't any or not enough together, so I was very excited. There was only one catch - I had to take 3 children with me to Chapel Hill.
I was able to take Zander to a tournament game last year at our coliseum, but I wanted him to experience the Dean Dome. He was so excited. We packed our things the night before and picked up cousins Matt and Josh around 3 in the afternoon. We all changed into our Carolina attire and placed a tarheel foot on our faces and then we were off. We went to the park and ride location to catch the bus. While we were waiting, Zander started talking to a police officer. He was very nice to him and let him get into his car and turn on the lights and look at all of his stuff! He loved it.
Then we got on the Tarheel shuttle bus and went to the Dean Dome. We walked around and looked at all of the Carolina gear and ate supper. We were there early enough to watch the team warm up. It was really exciting and it never gets old to me. I didn't think that this was going to be a good game but it turned out to be very interesting. The other team had a guy that was 7'7" tall. He wore a size 28 shoe. Zander looked up at me and said, " Mom, he is taller than Uncle Michael!" That is what we measure everything by. Our tallest player, came up to the bottom of his shoulder blades. He could dunk the ball standing flat footed under the basket. I couldn't help but think about the scene in King Kong where Kong is on top of the building swinging his arms and knocking the planes out of the air. That is what it looked like. He just stood there and batted everything that they threw up away. I don't know how they scored any points. At one point, our favorite player, Tyler Hanbrough got frustrated and somehow took it in and dunked it right in his face. I thought the building was going to come down with all of the noise. It was all very exciting and I hope that he remembers it fondly. I am glad that we could share it together. Here is a link to the video and other pictures from the game. You can clearly see from the video how excited he was. I hope that we get to go to many other games together.

Tarheels game