For Cooper - It's All About Blake Young

Well Cooper has her first official "celebrity" crush. Now I must say this little girl has a few things still to learn, but I was very proud of how she just pushed herself right down there among those big kids and went right up to "her man" and got his autograph. She even professed her "love" and told him she would miss him next year and that he was her favorite player. Ahhhhh!

For those of you who don't know who Blake Young is, he is number 2 on the K-State men's basketball team and this is his senior year. So Tuesday night was his last home game, so we took Cooper to watch him play one last time. She has liked Blake Young for a long time. It was a late game and Cooper was tired, but she stayed awake and waited patiently for him to come out after the game. K-State was playing Colorado and pulled out a victory that night.

The rest of story goes something like this. Chad had bought Cooper a K-State jersey and put Blake's number on it, so Cooper of course wanted him to sign her jersey. Also in preparation Cooper wanted to make Michael Beasley a card. Michael is number 30 on the team and is the freshman all star this year. He loves SpongeBob Square Pants, so Cooper drew him a very nice card. While waiting for Blake Young and the rest of the players after the game, Michael Beasley's mom came out. Chad had told Cooper that she might have to give her card to Michael's mom as EVERYONE wants to get Michael's autograph and he'd probably be very busy. So Cooper got Michael's mom's attention and asked her if she would give Michael her card. His mom replied sure, is it private? Cooper was a bit perplexed and so Chad said no. His mom read the card and loved it and said she needed to take a picture of Cooper so that Michael would know who gave him that card. Needless to say Chad was more excited than Cooper. Michael's mom has a blog and we're hoping maybe Cooper makes the site.

So finally out came Blake Young. He was signing autographs left and right and ended up going past Cooper. So Chad told her to go under the chains and go up and ask him for his autograph. Which she did no problem. She had just gotten Coach Frank Martin to sign her jersey so she was excited. Blake graciously signed her jersey on both sides as she requested and she talked with him and smiled the whole time. It was a great moment to witness.

After meeting Michael Beasley's mom, getting Coach Frank Martin's autograph, and getting to meet and get the autograph of her favorite player Blake Young, Cooper was a very happy little girl. It was well worth the late night. She took her jersey to school the next day to show her teacher. She tells everyone that story.

I'll post some pics a little later.