Soccer has begun

Soccer actually started in October but since football only ended last week, Big M has not made any of the practices. Today was the first game though , 3-3.

As much as he loved football, soccer is his first love. He has been playing since 3 and he has invested a lot of time in it. He also realized that with football he can't so much at the same time. Football is a time commitment that requires sacrifice form all of us, even for Little M. With this, Big M is willing to not come back to football next year.

However, right now we are exchanging football for soccer - with practices 3x/week and a game. Phew. 

Mighty Mite football

Today is the 3rd day of football practice: 2 1/2 hours everyday until school starts. It's tough, it's grueling, it's new to Big M but everyday he comes home and says he LOVES it.  Last night before going to bed, he told Daddy "thank you for letting me play football".

He is definitely using muscle groups that he has never used before, but he does what he is told. This video is his 2nd time around. The first boy he went up against was slightly bigger than him and Big M stopped him. He changed his hold on the other boy which caused him his momentum. One of the couches told him what to do and on this 2nd one, he did it.

This little guy definitely puts his all into whatever he does, and for now, it's football.

On a funny note, Daddy and is having a chuckle about him not being able to do sit ups. I'm not chuckling though, but I can't do one either.

Football has begun

Big M has added to Football to his sports repertoire, and so the chauffeur mom & dad has opened for the year.

After 2 1/2 hours of practice on the first day, he said it was FUN! 

the super bowl is providing a new obsession

I let Big M watch the Super Bowl. I thought with Daddy being away, it would be just a good family time. It turned out the girls were excited about it too. The whole school did football related activities so they were quite pumped. 

We have never watched football before so it took a little bit of figuring out who to root for, though we decided to root for the Ravens being in the east coast and all. Big M was fascinated. I only let him stay up until the half-time though. He left specific instructions for me to find out the final score.

Early in the morning, he heard on the radio the news about who won. Darn public radio for news! We have our radio set to classical music day in and day out for the kids to go sleep to, but there is that darn news. Big M loudly cheered, "Oh yeah, oh yeah, Raven win!"

Fast forward to days later and we find ourselves in the library with Big M checking out a few football books.