Basketball

Will is playing basketball once a week at the local rec center. The kids are all 1st and 2nd graders. As you can see, they are pretty lax on any rules, and just let the kids have fun and work on some basic skills. You can't steal the ball or foul and they don't have to dribble down court, but start at the half court line instead. Kids have been known to double (and triple) dribble! The reason that Will waits so long the second time he has the ball is because he only likes to throw the ball to his good friend Jack, who does manage to eventually get open and catch the ball, after some elaborate hand signals on the part of Will. In fact after I taped this, Jack had to leave early and Will didn't know he was gone and he stood there with the ball looking all over for Jack before he'd pass it, and we were all yelling at him, "Jack's gone! You'll have to throw it to somebody else!" Which the other parents got a kick out of. As you can see he's got a lot of energy, and was usually the first one to run down the court! What a good way to wear a guy out! I think he's probably a better guard than a forward! That's Audrey, Jack's little sister with the blond pigtails, who is adorable! Sam likes to play with her.