About 8 years ago when I hear this word my thoughts centered around cute boys in the football uniforms, friends, hot chocolate and boys.
Four years later I still thought about hot boys, but my thoughts were mostly centered around #75.
Fast forward to now and when I hear that word I slightly groan. It means that I will be a single parent for the next three months. Will leaves at 5:30 a.m. and gets back around 7:00 p.m. on most days. I still do get excited every Saturday before the game starts. I enjoy the games even though I know only the basic concepts of football. I am fairly certain there are still hot guys to look at (including my dearest husband) but instead of watching the game I am trying to control my adorable little child.
This weekend Dixie had a scrimmage before the season starts. I decided that this would be the practice game to determine if we would be watching the games from the stadium or on our couch. We got to the game and found some seats. Addi sat and stared at the field. She was enthralled. Once in a while she would point and grunt or dance to the songs but she really just sat and watched. I thought that this was going to be a spectacular season because she was so well behaved. I even sent my mom a picture and told how great she was being.
Sadly, the moment the message had sent her football spell was broken. She gave me this odd face, stood up, and was on the run.
First she wanted to climb the steps, then she wanted everyone’s drink, then she wanted to pull people’s hair and eat trash. After a bit I decided to try our luck on the ground.
We discovered a little patch of gravel near the concession stands and she spent a long time playing with the rocks. This kid loves rocks. She feels a need to pick up every rock she walks by and I am always amazed how many rocks she can fit in her little hands.
Hopefully we can spend our time here during all the football games. Towards the end of the scrimmage she was getting fussy, hot and tired. There was a “train” (a man pulling little cars behind a four-wheeler) going around the track that kids could ride. Addi was always quite excited when it came by so I thought we would try it to see if she liked it. I did feel like a complete idiot being the only adult on this little kid ride but Addi thought it was the most amazing thing she had ever done. She was laughing, yelling and waving. I would really spend the entire game on that train because Addi would be happy and you get quite an excellent view of the game.
Hopefully we will have a good football season and we will not have to watch the games from the T.V.
I know Will is really excited for this season and hopefully he can get some good results from all of his hard work.
