It started with Maddux turning 8, on the 8th, and him having his birthday party at the CAV's game. He is a huge CAV's fan so I took him and 4 of his friends to watch the CAV's take on the Chicago Bulls. Despite the Bulls winning by 40 the kids had a fun time and got to do lots of stuff. Maddux also got his name put up on one of the scoreboards.
The boys were also selected be Courtside Kids and got to go and sit on the baseline during warm-ups and take pictures of the players getting ready. They give them a shirt and disposable camera and let them sit there for an hour before the game actually starts.
Here they are waiting to go on the court and take pictures with their spray painted hair.
As part of being a Courtside Kid they also get to go on the floor and shoot freethrows while the team is waiting to come out.
Maddux hitting his freethrow - nothing but net.
This was the boys favorite part of the whole night. Well at least everyone but Maddux. While his friends were waving and taking pictures of all the CAV's girls, Maddux wanted nothing to do with them. I had to force him to take this picture. He wouldn't talk let alone look at the girls and actually tried to run away from them. This is all the other boys talked about all night. This is also the picture that we used to send thank you notes to the kids for coming.
Then after the game I had a real surprise for them. I know the head of security for the CAV's (through the bank) and he agreed to take all the boys down to the locker room area after the game so the kids could meet and get autographs from the players. Maddux got to do this once last year and had a lot of fun.
Here is Daniel "Boobie" Gibson signing autographs for the kids. You have to love the hat.
"The Wild Thing" Anderson Varejao signing Maddux's sign. This is Brooklyn's favorite player.
It was nice that most of the Bulls players also stopped to sign autographs for the kids. Here is Carlos Boozer, one time CAV, signing Maddux's sign. Outside of Lebron James, he is probably the most hated CAV for the way he left the team.
With Maddux turning 8 this year he also was baptized on his birthday. He was very excited and had a lot of his friends show up to support his decision.
Thanks to Jennie and her lack of enthusiasm for pictures this is the lone picture that we have from his baptism.
A giant plate of cookies served as Maddux's birthday cake and made distributing a lot easier.
We had a lot of hoops for the month of January between the kids playing basketball and a couple of CAV's basketball games.
Maddux and I went to opening night where he was selected to be a ballkid. He gets to stand at halfcourt and the starting 5 come out and hand them basketballs which they can keep. I think Maddux and Brooklyn have each been selected to do this 3 times over the last couple of years.
Here he is on the jumbotron waiting for the players to come out.
I don't have very many pictures of Maddux playing as I help coach his team and Jennie tends to take more pictures of the other kids then her own. Here he is playing some lock-down defense on his guy. He has gotten very good at taking the ball away from the other team and racing to the other end for a layup.
Over the last couple of games Brooklyn has let her offensive side loose. She has scored in her last three games and had a career high 6 points in last weeks game. She has gotten a little more aggressive and is not afraid to mix it up a little bit. I hope to have some video ready for my February update.
Well now you are caught up through January and I promise to blog more than once in February.
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