My Little Cute Basketball Player

          I have come to the thought of trying to guess what my children will be and then write a little entry about them if it is easy to tell. This one will probably be the cutest of them all and you had to be there to see it but I'll try my best to explain it. I was in the gym with my children one day this past week. Yes, mine. I'm kind of obsessive over them. I have never seen a one month old baby if that ever follow an object as well as my little basketball player did.
           This won't be a long entry. Just one where I can remember the moment. I like to do that a lot. I was shooting baskets in the gym trying to keep my preschoolers entrained and that didn't work very well but the babies were in there with us. As I was shooting the baskets, it kept one of the babies very entertained. It was so cute to watch.
             The baby was sitting under the basket to the side of it and as I was shooting he would watch the ball go in the basket. He would also watch me dibble the ball. The ball went up so did his head and his eyes and it came down so did he. He sat there for about 10 mins. watching me shoot baskets. He also smiled while I was shooting them. There would be a little laugh every now and then. I was scared that the ball was going to hit him but it never did.
             That moment just made my day so much better. It was good because I worked a double that day so I needed a moment like that to brighten my 2nd shift. It surprised me too because usually a baby that young would not just sit there and watch a ball go in and out of the basket. They don't usually have those long of attention span but this baby did.
             He is and always will be my little basketball player. That is how I will remember him by and this moment. It was like I was playing with him but then again not because I was the one doing all the playing. He was just enjoying it. It is moments like those that I wonder what is going on inside a baby's mind. It would be interesting to know if anything. Why are they smiling just at a ball that is going up and down? I also spent time with him after I stopped, because I was getting tried, rolling the ball to him and he just smiled as big. He is going to play a sport with some kind of ball in it whether basketball, baseball, or football. That is his future.
               I love trying to guess and give HOPE to these children like this even if they don't understand like the babies it is still fun. It means the most when they are preschool age because you could start a dream in their hearts. Help them to look at the bright side of things too.