Charlotte finished up basketball yesterday. While her team ended the season with a 4-7 record, Charlotte ended it with a great enthusiasm for basketball. She has asked to attend a basketball camp this summer, so I’m going to see what we can do. I think the local high school coach offers one at the middle school here in town during the summer, which would be close and convenient!
She ended up scoring three or four baskets throughout the season, which made her something of a sleeper on the team. Only about half of the girls ever scored, and Charlotte was never guarded very hard…until she scored! She ended up being a very strong defensive player, and the coach often paired her with girls taller than herself. She is still not very aggressive, but we were so pleased with her progress.
Jeff ended up assistant coaching, since the head coach was alone. Here are a few photos of their last couple of games. Charlotte is number 34.
Yesterday afternoon, Charlotte’s coach, Greg Brahman, hosted an end-of-season pizza and basketball party in the gym where he attends church. He was coaching his son’s 1st and 2nd grade team, as well as his daughter’s 3rd and 4th grade team, so there was a pretty good crowd of players, parents, and siblings. Charlotte and Elijah had a blast, as did all of the coaches. The party was supposed to end at 6:00, but we didn’t leave until around 7:00. All in all, basketball was a good experience!
I thought I’d end this post with a couple of comical pictures. As I mentioned in a previous blog, Jeff took the kids skiing on Thursday and is planning to take them again tomorrow, so their ski helmets are just lying about right now. On Friday evening, I heard Charlotte start playing “Fur Elise” on the piano. As she had already practiced that day, I was curious as to what she was doing. Not often do my kids just sit at the piano and start playing for no reason.
This is what I saw when I went back there.
After I ran to get the camera and snapped this picture, I heard Elijah start playing. I snuck back again and saw this.
I’m still not sure what they were doing, but it certainly cracked me up!
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