Will's first Jr. Jazz season has come to an end. He really loved playing and it was so cute watching those kindergartners run around and try to learn the fundamentals of basketball! He had a good coach and we enjoyed participating.
He especially loved playing against his buddy Collin!!! We signed up too late to get them on the same team. Unfortunately, Collin didn't share the same enthusiasm for basketball as Will did!
Even though the season is over, he still wears his Jr. Jazz jersey every day!! He wears it to school, to play, pretty much all day. He wears it so much that I forget it's not his clothes! Anytime he goes outside or down to the basement to shoot the ball on our little hoop, he has to be wearing his jersey. Sometimes he even wears it to bed! He was #10 on his team but he would always want to wear his hand me down #19 jersey from a cousin. I couldn't figure it out until one day, when he was talking about how #0 on his team wasn't very good, but #27 was really good. We finally figured out that he thought that the higher the number on your jersey, the better player you were! He loves to go outside and shoot on the real hoop as much as he can. If the weather is warm enough, he'll shoot out there for hours!
Basketball and anything Jazz has become his latest obsession. He loves watching Jazz games and gets so excited anytime they are ahead of the other team! His favorite player is Gordon Hayward. The other night, we were talking about middle names and I told him that his was Gordon and all of a sudden, he kind of lit up. I thought maybe he had made the connection between that and Grandpa Gord (Clay's dad, who he is named after) but nope...he said, "like Gordon Hayward"! He's been lucky enough to go to some Jazz games and a couple player appearance things where he's gotten a few pictures with them!
Sometimes even he can get frustrated with how terrible they are playing!!!
Basketball has really helped his math skills! If you put addition in terms of points scored, he can add 2 or 3 points to almost any number in his head! But if you ask him the same addition number (i.e. 9+2), he doesn't know the answer- it has to be, "if you had 9 points and scored a 2 pointer" and then he can figure it right out! Here is Will showing off his math skills!
His basketball obsession is rubbing off on Sam too! Sam loves to go down and "shoot the ball" with him. Here is a little video of him talking and shooting!
It is so fun to have him love one thing SO much. Go Jazz!!!
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You'd shared most of these on Facebook and Instagram, but it's wonderful to have them all together here in a blog post! I still need to wrap up the season (although Cal and Keaton still have a game or two left). Colton wears his jersey all the time too. Cooper decided he is done playing on a team, but still shoots around all the time. Sad Cooper missed Gordon Hayword (I had to take Keaton to a game, Colton was home sick, I'd debated having Landon take Cooper ... should have!) The hoop in our house keeps the boys busy too!
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