Sports

OR LACK THERE OF

Con has tried lots of sports

Soccer

Twice

Tennis

Swim

and currently Basketball

 Soccer was a waist of time

That's why we tried it twice

Just to make sure

The practices were OK

But the games

forget about it

He wanted to sit out

Volunteering to let someone else go in

He never got the ball

Then there are those kids

You know the one

The natural talents

The kid who ALWAYS has the ball

and always scores

That was NOT my kid

and I think it frustrated Con some

So we thought tennis might be better

more solo

less team

it was just a camp

no matches

and he was fairly good at it

for a kid who's never touched a racket

but the below picture

is how he spent most of his hour

for the whole week

and each day asking

"how many more minutes"

"how many more days"

Thought it might have been the time

tennis was at noonish

our normal quiet time

and soccer practice was evenings

our normal very quiet time

but the games were early

 so no excuses there

Connor is skipping swim this month

Colton is not

they will both be back in lessons in July

Neither one of them are natural fish

Again...the class always seems to have THAT kid

who jumps in and just starts swimming

like he was born in the freaking water

NOT MY KIDS

Connor wanted to try basketball

I thought OK

he's asking

and it's inside

and you practice 30 minutes before a game

so I'm not running around every single night

with  games and practices

Love how little the goal is

He got the ball first and made a basket

Then pretty much never touched the ball again

He told me

"This is definitely not my sport"

He just doesn't get in there

caught him yawning

it's hard to play these bedtime sports

And it too had THE kid

who excelled

I want him to play what ever he wants to play

whenever he wants to play it

but I think he is so young

On the one hand

if you don't sign them up to play things now

when they do start

they are behind

because everyone else started at 4

What sports are you involved in?

What age did it start?

And how much do you push it?

I made Connor read a book the other day 

while we waited for tennis to start

He was bothered because we had already read that day

I told him if he did not do sports

he had to be really good at reading

He decided he would make swim  his sport

Just another way to screw up my kids

push the sports now

or wait and he's behind

GO FIGURE

Game Day

Connor's first....
He had his very first GAME DAY at school a couple of weeks ago. While it was very different than the field days of my time, he had a blast. I was thinking potato sack races and running with eggs on spoons while all the parents stand on the side cheering the kids on. The week before the kids would work on the class T shirts that everyone would wear that hot sun shiny day and then get popsicle drippings all over it, but who would care because you would wear your prize ribbon over the stains! Well, OKC doesn't do it old school like that.

Theirs was planned in the school gym. It turned out to be a good thing since the previous day it poured so the ground was soaked! They did it over 2 days and by grade. We ended up with a couple of first grade classes though.

Most of these photos involve Con and his 2 best buddies, Andrew and Camden. Here they are golfing.

 And tug of war was a hit. Connor lost this match against Camden, but it was not fair ground. Camden stands several inches taller and has at least 12 pounds on him.

 A little more equally matched against Andrew. All in good fun though.

Along with this racing game, there was basketball, ping pong, climbing a rope, hockey, and balancing on some half ball thing. It was fun for the kids and less than an hour.

The best game was this:

I am thinking a couple of tires in my backyard and some bolster pillows and I could put an end to any argument Connor and Colton have this summer?!

And my game....
Saturday night Mark and I had GREAT tickets to the MAVS/thunder play off game. His boss has season tickets and some fantastic seats. I was torn about who to cheer for....my FAVE city or my new city.

I chose the MAVS! Mark and I were 2 of 10 people Dallas fans in the entire freaking place!
NO JOKE! Every person received a Thunder T-shirt and towel, so at least I was prepared in case the game went bad. It was a win-win for me. I couldn't loose and I the t-shirt to prove it.

 Hanson sang the National Anthem. Does anybody remember them? They were a teeny-bopper group about a decade ago. I did not know they were still around. Well, obviously not if they are singing basket ball games. But apparently they are from Oklahoma. Who knew? Not me for sure. But they did a wonderful job.

 Oh, but I didn't need that stupid thunder shirt! MAVS won!! It made the long walk back to the car much nicer.

 I must say though, I would happily cheer for the Thunder when they are not playing the MAVS. Those are some serious fans.

Mark was suppose to go back to tonight's game, but he hasn't been feeling well. I know it must be bad since he gave up his ticket. Must be why they are not in the lead.

GO MAVS