Jake in March

Jake had a big first week in March as you can probably see from this picture.

1. He took second place overall in the ward Pinewood Derby. He wanted his car to be an iphone. It looked pretty awesome. Jeremy decided since it was going to be his last ever pinewood derby car ever to make, that they'd go all out. I'm not going to say who put the most time into the car, we'll just say it was a team effort.

2. Jake finally got a pair of rec specs. He got a new pair of glasses at the end of December and within the first month, they were bent from getting hit in the face with a soccer ball, a basketball, a soccer ball again, and basketball again... You get the picture. His face and glasses were getting trashed daily!

3. Finally, and most exciting, his basketball team, the Wildcats, won the YMCA tournament. The were so fun to watch. The team they beat, bless their sweet hearts, were pretty darn good and as Jeremy called them, Hitler's war Machine. They had complete matching uniforms, they were mostly tall thin, blonde hair, blue eyes, they looked well oiled. Then there was Jake's team, scraggly looking - had a girl on their team, the most disinterested kid in the whole league, the over weight kids, the goofy kid with tourettes... It reminded me of when the Sandlot kids played that one team where Ham says, "You play ball like a girl," then it's on. Anyway, they played their little hearts out and won very dramatically by one point. At one point we thought we had won the game by 2 points. The celebration had begun, the trophies were brought out, but then they were called off the floor to finish the last 2 seconds with the other team shooting 1 and 1 free throws (they had credited a last second foul to the wrong team). But in the end, our awesome team won! Jake was amazing to watch. He as a mean crossover and can burn anyone down the court. I already kinda miss going to his games, but bring on baseball!