Despite his undying devotion to the sport of football, we have gotten Hayden to broaden his horizons by signing him up for basketball. He plays in the 4 and 5 age group. We really don't know for sure, but sorta suspect him to be one of the younger guys on the team. His team is called the blue eagles and there are about 10 wiggly little guys that are in constant motion for the hour a week we go. There is a Hayden, Brayden, Kaden and Aiden on the team. That adds to the challenge for ol' coach Steve. "hey, Hayden, come stand over here!" All four come bouncing over, three of them leaving the spots coach Steve just assigned them. They practice bounce passes, chest passes, dribbling with each hand ("your other right!"), and shooting. They play with an 8 foot tall rim, and some of them can shoot it up there. Not Hayden. He tries with all his might, but is lucky to graze the bottom of the net. We have only gone to three practices, but he improves each week. I don't think it will be too long before he is swishing them. Today they divided up into two teams for a little scrimage. Coach had Hayden's team take their shirts off and be "skins." Skins agains shirts. OH MY, how cute. The skins were very shy and hesitant to take off their shirts, in fact, I was a little unsure of it myself. Well, coach is no dummy, he knows he was going to need help so he had a few dads come help and of coarse Heath was the first to jump up and volunteer (but he kept his shirt on). Hayden was so excited. At one point he came running over to me in the middle of the game and exclaimed "Mom, Dad is the coach!" It was very sweet. Hayden is quite sure that the skins won, however I am not sure how we should have kept score, it seemed to be a hybrid of football, soccer, basketball, and wrestling. All-in-all it was very cute and I couldn't be more proud of my little super star.
