homemade hockey

This is how our boys spent the whole month of december. Outside playing street hockey. They went to a hockey game at the beginning of the month and that started their love for the game... and they've been playing outside since. They wanted hockey sticks so bad that they made their own. All on their own too. I had no idea they were even doing that. One day they just came in to show me the cool hockey sticks they had made out of sticks and duck tape. They first used a baseball for the puck. But after a couple broken hockey sticks, and another roll of duck tape they wised up and found a tennis ball. They wore their heeley's most of the time. It was the closest thing they had to skates. They use the baseball pitch back and a cardboard box for the goals. It was mostly just the two of them, but a neighbor (Dylan) would join in as much as possible. He made his own stick too. They named their team, The Shadows. They came up with that name one day in our backyard while playing. Our dog pen outside has the name Shadow written in the cement from a previous owner. Their colors are black, white, and red. They try to wear those colors when they play. They each have given themselves positions. Dawson is the goalie and he says he is #50 even though he doesn't have any kind of jersey or team shirt - he has already picked out a number. Ha Ha. He keeps asking me to buy t-shirts so he can make team shirts for everyone. One of these days I'm gonna do that for him. Maybe we'll post the team shirts on here. He is requesting white t-shirts with black and red paint or letters. We'll see.