Basketball Ethan

This year has been fun for our family to follow the Utah Jazz Basketball team, especially since Ethan has developed an obsession with basketball. He pretty much eats sleeps and drinks basketball. The first thing he does when he gets up in the morning is gets our newspaper to "read" the sports section. He has figured out how to tell if the Jazz are playing that night and if so if the game is on KJZZ or cable. If there happens to be a Jazz game that night he is pretty much asking me all day if the game is going to be starting soon.

When the Jazz beat Houston in the first round, Ethan was so happy he taped the paper to our front door. Good thing he used painters tape to do it!

He also likes to log on the internet and follow the games on Yahoo Sports and check the scores of all the NBA teams. Because his favorite color is green is has also taken a liking to the Boston Celtics.

Ethan has a little baskeball hoops that he is constantly shooting hoops on. He likes to change into his basketball shorts and a t-shirt and shoot baskets while he watches cartoons and basketball games. He is really cute when he plays because he acts like he is various Jazz players when he is shooting. We ended up buying him a Kirelinko jersey that he pretty much wears all the time.

When we were at my parents house for mothers day my sister Ann was there and she painted everyone's toe nails. Later that night Ethan got into the nail polish and painted his arms. We asked him why he painted his arms and he said he did it because Boozer and D Will had paint on their arms!

Ethan in his Kirelinko jersey in front of his basketball hoop sporting his new tattoos!

My sister Ann decided to have a little fun and give him a personalize tattoo!

Here are a few of my favorite Ethan basketball quotes.

"Kirelinko for three, oh and he makes it!"

"Boozer for the lay up and it is good!"

"Memo for a deep three. Yes!"

"The Jazz won the first "Korver"(he obviously means the first quarter but says it like he is talking about Kyle Korver:).

"The Jazz won the game because they played defense."

Micah plays basketball every Tuesday night with the guys in our ward and Ethan has to tag along with him. He tries to keep score of all their games and between games will take his little ball onto the court and keep track of all the baskets he is making.

Ethan in St. George shooting hoops with his cousin Taylor and his Uncles Russell and Alan.

Last week Micah and I were talking about how great it would be if Micah could take Ethan to one of the last two remaining Jazz games. Last Monday, Micah went to the ticket office to see if he could get tickets to the game on Saturday against the Denver Nuggets. The only tickets they had left were single seats so we decided to bag the idea of taking him to a basketball game. Because we had been talking about Ethan going to a Jazz game, he was already talking about going to the Denver game. The next day Micah's dad called asking Micah if he and Ethan wanted to go to the game. Well they went and had a great time.

Ethan cheering on the Jazz!

Ethan at the game with Grandma and Grandpa Monson.

*This post was edited on May 18,2008