We took the kids to their first WBL football game tonight. I was planning to stay an hour and then head out, but we were all having so much fun - mom included of course :) we ended up staying for the whole game. Collin picked out a player #77 right away and he watched him like a hawk. I couldn't figure out why he had picked that number but Matt remembered that had been his number in hockey last year (I don't think Collin realized this at the time). Anyway he literally knew where that kid was at all times. He did watch the game quite a bit, ran up down the bleachers some, cheered really loud for the Bears and checked the stat sheet about the players a lot! He was very interested in how much people weighed and what number they were, etc!! He did not want to leave! However when we got home and I said, "Collin wouldn't it be fun if mom and dad were at the game to watch you play"? He said "No, I'm not going to play football" - very matter of factly. He wouldn't really give me a reason just that he didn't want to. So although we may not have got Collin hooked on football - we definitely lit a spark in Ella. She saw cheerleaders for the first time ever. She was enamored with them. By the second half she found herself a permanent spot right in front of them and didn't move until the end of the game. She was SO cute watching them, studying their every move. Every now and then we would catch her trying to copy what they were doing. She especially liked in when one of the girls went up on the other girls' hands. On the way home she was very excited to tell us that she was going to be a cheerleader. She kept saying "Probably I'm going to practice a lot at school, and I'm going to go way on the top"! Even Madelyn seemed to enjoy the game - there was so much to look at!
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