Basketball

This past weekend was Levi's last regular season basketball game. We still have a tournament to play March 14, but then we'll be finished. It's been fun, but I'll be glad for it to be over with. The lady that was helping me coach walked out of practice and quit last week, so I've been doing it on my own since then. (That is a pretty interesting story in itself for another time !) It wouldn't be such a big deal if I didn't have these darn crutches to contend with. Anyway, I asked David to take some pictures of Levi playing basketball for you all to see. Apparently David and I don't share the same idea of what close up action shots are, so the pictures were all pretty far away, but I zoomed in on them some with the computer. Here they are:

Levi playing defense in the middle

Levi at point guard

Levi is one of our best ball-handlers (actually we only have 2) and he usually leads the team in rebounding. He is also a great defensive player and makes a lot of steals. I wish I could get him to shoot the ball more, but overall he has done a great job this year.

At practice last night, I let Caleb and a 3rd grade boy scrimmage with our 4th grade team. Since we didn't have jerseys, I split them up by shirt color and it happened that Levi and one of the other 4th graders were on a team with Caleb (who is in 2nd grade) and the 3rd grade boy. Surprisingly (and sadly) the team made up of all 4th graders were losing to Levi and Caleb's team. Caleb also beat all of the fourth graders in a game of shootout. You should have seen his smile !

Unfortunately, Levi also broke his tooth at practice last night. It was the same one he broke back in January and I think the part that broke off was just the stuff the dentist had put on. I called the dentist this morning and they can't get him in until Thursday, so we were both pretty disappointed. I tried to put some perspective on the situation for Levi by telling him we were fortunate to be living somewhere where he could at least get it fixed. I told him that not everyone around the world has that opportunity and they have to walk around snaggle-toothed for the rest of their life. He didn't say too much more after that, but we both still felt pretty frustrated. I'd like to think that after we get it fixed this time we won't have to worry about it again for awhile, but that never seems to be the way things work around here !