"DRIBBLE DRIBBLE SHOOT......HOOP.....DRIBBLE DRIBBLE SHOOT."

Ever since Ben has been very young he has loved any type of spherical object, whether it is the lights in the chapel at church, the moon, oranges, or typical soccer and basketballs. Since Tanner's basketball season just ended, Ben observed a lot of basketball games, which we think is the reason he is completely obsessed with basketballs, dribbling, basketball courts, and hoops. An extreme example happened tonight. Ben has figured out that ward buildings have basketball courts, in fact he has memorized all the outdoor basketball courts in our neighborhood and yells "hoop, hoop!" as we near them. Tonight the stake primary kids had a singing concert and as soon as Ben got in the building her starting yelling "hoop!", after trying to distract him with everything Kim and I could think of, we found our way to the empty gym. For the next 30 minutes Ben pretended to dribble and then shoot at the hoop. He asked "up more" which means hold me and let me dunk it, like he does on our home hoop which is only 8ft tall. I lifted him up trying to get him as close to the 10ft hoop without success and he continued pushing off of me saying "up more!" He was so frustrated that he couldn't stand it, not even the promise of getting a treat and seeing mommy would distract him. He wanted to dunk it so bad. He finally threw his head back balling. All the way home he was saying "dribble dribble shoot hoop!" until we got home and let him dunk the ball on our hoop. What a funny kid. Soccer season has just started with T, let's hope soccer isn't such an addiction because he may get a little frustrated kicking the ball since he can't walk quite yet.