Max's big weekend

Our life has been nonstop.  I know it's way past the weekend but Max had a few experiences this weekend that were especially noteworthy. First of all he participated in his first Pinewood Derby on Friday.


Here are the cars. Jack had to make one too, of course.  Max's is the one with the yellow sticker.

He won a few races, but mostly had a great time cheering on everyone else's cars. It was super exciting!

Saturday Max woke up bright and early to play his last Basketball game of the season.  He has been a bit of a slow starter in ball this year.  He never made a shot in a game all year but then Saturday, he sunk two of them.  It was such an exciting game.  They lost but only by two points and they really rallied together at the end to catch the other team. 

[The above description needs a little embellishment from a father's perspective.  Max had not scored all season long.  He has been working hard on his shot for the last month.  It was the 4th quarter of his last game.  Our team was down by 10 points with ~3 minutes left on the clock.  Max got the ball down low and put it up, it bounced around the rim and then dropped in.  Max ran back to play defense while trying to keep back his smile.  On one of the next few plays Max sunk his second shot.  By this time our team was closing the gap and the other team called time-out to put his first string players back in.  During the time-out I gave Max a high-five and then he requested to give me knuckles.  (That almost brought tears to my eyes.)  We lost the game but it was by far the most exciting game we played.]


Here he is getting his medal at the park afterward.

Probably the best part of the season was that he got to play on a team with his best friend Sam. 


And, that Doug and Sam's dad got to coach them.

So Basketball season is over and what did we do on Saturday night you may ask?  Why we went out and bought a basketball hoop for our driveway of course.  The taste of those two shots was so sweet, we have to start practicing for next year.