Jaden plays ball

Jaden---another Roth basketball Star!!

This game Jaden kept getting in trouble (from me and Grandpa Balzer) for putting his hands in his pockets.  Really??  Can you play ball with your hands in your pockets?

Needless to say---he was not allowed to wear those shorts again!!

At age 4-- the kids "practice" for the first 30 minutes of their scheduled time and then they scrimmage for the last 30 min. or so.  This eliminates practice and a game in a week--for 4 year olds.  We like this new format.

Here is JADEN and LEAH passing the ball during "practice"

HANDS UP!!!  DEFENSE!!!

Jaden is so STINKING CUTE playing b-ball.  He is 4 and I swear he can shuffle his feet on D!!

Medals!!  Check out how cool they are!!!

The team!

Coach "Dad", Leah, and Jaden!!

It was SO FUN to watch Jaden play b-ball for the first time.  He is SO SERIOUS!  Jaden scored every game and 1 game scored 10 points!!  We are thinking he is a natural---so we'll see in 10 years where he is with sports and/or basketball.  But, for now---we'll just have fun watching him.

Jaden does LOVE basketball.  The season is over and he goes outside EVERY chance he gets to shoot the ball!  He also LOVES to watch b-ball on TV.  Of course he, and Tyler, love to watch KSU, but they will watch any b-ball game.  They just pick a team and cheer for them!!!  It's so fun to watch games with the boys!!!

Jaden's team won 7 of their 8 games!  We are pretty sure Jaden thinks they played the same team each week, because he always tell us, "they only won 1 game and we won the rest."  We've tried to explain to him that it is a different team each week---not sure he's got that concept yet!