Basketball: His way of Life

As many of you already know, Jaxson is obsessed with basketball. You may think that we have been "training" him often and trying to really impound basketball into his brain. Not true actually, although Ryan and I both really enjoy the sport -- more so than any other. When Jax turned 1, he received his basketball hoop from his Grandparents as a present. When he was that young, yes we encouraged him to put the ball in the net. When he started speaking, the words he learned were in this order ..."Dada, ball, basketball." Yes, as a 13-14 month old, he was saying a 3 syllable word. crazy kid.

Well, to this day, he says basketball tons each day. He is always playing with the basketball & hoop, and as soon as Dada comes in the door, he yells "BASKETBALL!" instead of "Dada!" like he use to say. He often points and says "sit" on the ground so we can watch him shoot and dunk some hoops. He definitly knows the difference between shoot, dunk, pass, and dribble.

In the morning, I ask him what he wants to wear, and he says basketball! He knows which shirts are basketball related and he wants to wear them all the time. It is funny, but he really just obsessed with basketball (and nike for that matter --- he sees the nike check and immediatley associates it with basketball).

Get this, he even asks us to turn on youtube so he can watch videos of basketball! His favorite is the Derrik Rose bull commercial. Jax also loves putting on our basketball shoes and wearing them around the house- especially when he shoots hoops. I love this kid and he cracks me up.