Misc Thoughts - Dillon (4 3/4 years old)

Dillon is currently obsessed with sports, especially basketball. He loves to shoot baskets on his little hoop in the backyard, and to do it on the bigger hoops at Colter's school. There is often a running commentary: "Daddy, you're Washington State (for some reason they show up a lot) and I'm Stanford, and it's 82 to 76." Or, "Daddy, look at me, I'm shooting 30-point baskets" (it started out that long shots were 3 pts, then 5, now 30! inflation...). He's a pretty good shot, too. He also likes to slam dunk it.

In addition to playing, he's obsessed with watching. We're in the midst of the '07-'08 playoffs now (tonight was actually game one of the finals - Lakers-Celtics) and he's wanted to watch every game he can. He loves to know which teams are playing, what color are they (uniforms), where is the game being played, and what's the score. It's been great, as this process (which has been going on for over a month now) has really helped both D&J get pretty good at the numbers between 20-100.

D&J also just finished up a soccer class session (Kidz love soccer). Dillon really liked it, and was pretty good (D seemed to like it more than J). They both loved to talk about how many goals they were going to score at each session.

Dillon has his challenging streak as well -- he can still be very sensitive and sometimes gets upset about little things - for example, when we head upstairs for bath time without him (if, say, he's still watching a b-ball game). He can also talk back quite a bit when he's getting in trouble (me-"Dillon, don't talk back to me" Dill -"You don't talk back!" Just today, Dillon got in trouble for chasing some kids at the park and spitting on a girl (twice!). He also loves to push Jackson's buttons, just as Jackson loves to push his buttons.