Yesterday we had our first real basketball game and it was at the Baptist church, and man can they jazz up a youth basketball game. They announce all the players individually as they enter through a draped banner with background music. Then have a halftime show with cheerleaders and loud music plays during the substitutions to keep the crowd energized. It was simply amazing and at the same time depressing when you realize our church does none of that. The game was really good. Layne played pretty well, she is still a bit reserved on the court, but doing better. We lost, but it was close and the team was impressive for only having had two practices.
Today was equally impressive for Jacob and the Pinewood Derby. We turned his car in yesterday for the race today. It weighed the max 5oz. allowable and looked the part to boot. Jacob was not too terribly excited about the race or the fact that we had to wear the uniform, but his resistance wasn't up to his usual so I let it go. I felt good about our chances of doing well, at least within his den...there are only five kids, and on top of that one kid didn't even do a car, the top three get a trophy. Jacob's den's race came up and I was feeling very nervous, the good kind. The race started and all of a sudden one of the cars stopped a third of the way down the track. YESSS! I knew we were a lock for a trophy, at the same time feeling really bad for the kid who's car didn't get to the finish line. We went through all the heats and Jacob finished third each time....trophy. Then they announced the categories for "Most Scout Like", "Most Patriotic", and "Most Race Car Like". Here's the part where Jennifer gets credit. She bought a kit to help out with time, the kit looks like an Indy Car, can't get much more race car like than that. Several other cars had a good race car likeness, but Jacob's just screamed RACE CAR. Kinda felt a tad like cheating, but I wasn't going to say anything if no one else did. The category winners were announced and Jacob won "Most Race Car Like". TWO TROPHIES, he was going home with two trophies.
The guy was beaming with pride. We all felt so good for him. I think he felt really good about having some hardware to compete with Layne's sports trophies. We took pictures and he had to figure out how to hold the car and two trophies, now that's a nice problem to have and he loved it. You could tell his excitement, he was actually talking about next year's car. He'd obviously forgotten about the thousands of times he told me that this was his last year, don't sign him up again! No, he was proud and excited about doing a car for next year, and to top that, he wants to do most scout like, go figure. The new additions are already proudly on display along side his soccer trophy on the boy's shelf.
Our busy weekend paid off in spades.
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