Trying Again!

Well, Sorry I have not posted in a while. I will get to it sometime today! Promise! We have football conditioning a week longer than I thought! Hope that all is well with everyone and this blog finds you in good health & spirits!

Craziness Is What I Seem to Crave!

My oldest boys go to school in town. Do-due gets out at 4 pm, I am the 4 o'clock pick-up for carpool, which I totally love. The 4 o'clockers are awesome kiddos! We rush everyone home and then borrow my dear friends house as a dressing room. In the process Blue Boy empties half the playground on her clean floor! We, I guess I should say I forgot Do-dudes football girdle for his pads! So we book it home and find it, add the pads, change and hustle out the door. Book it West for a 25 minute drive and barely, I mean barely make it to 6 o'clock practice! Whew! No extra sprints today. Not that Do-dude has had to do that on his mother's account. Because I rock!! Oh yeah, Hub is working late again! Yuck! Okay, I did mention that my boys were playing Pop-Warner! They are super excited! I am a little less excited than they are. Do-dude is starting to get the hang of tackle so it seems that he is more excited each day to go. My Blue Boy started flag yesterday. Yesterday was more like finding your team, getting to know the coach and exercise a little. Now mind you this is flag football, My Blue Boy took out the coach's son with a hard take down today in practice. I didn't see what exactly happened but as soon as the little guy cried I said to my dear friend of many, many years I can guess that Blue Boy had something to do with that. . . she laughed and said YUP! I told my Hub and all he said was YES!!!!!!!!! Okay you ego junky, our kid just hurt the coach's kid. . .did you hear me?! Hub said okay so he didn't respond correctly, but he knows that coach will want him on his team when tackle comes. Yesterday Blue Boy thought it was a free for all and was taking kids down left and right. Granted they were all excited running around in those "new cleats that make them super fast and really strong "(that was a direct quote from Blue Boy). So once practice was over I explained that this is flag. "I know" was all that came out of his pouty mouth. He was very sad. While Do-dude practices at one corner of the field Blue Boy is at the opposite corner across the two baseball diamonds and across another parking lot. So all in all I never, NEVER get to use the chair that I brought, and in two hours I see a total of about 35 mins because I am walking back and forth trying to divide me in two while towing a tot around who walks at the pace of a turtle, but, with a water spray bottle in his hand walks more like a snail and doesn't want to be carried. The ants need water too! AAAHHHHHHHH!! We get home at 9 pm and Hub made dinner, which I was grateful for--He ordered a pizza! Thanks for helping me stay on my little mini marathon diet Babe! After showers and PJ's it was off to do homework! 30 minutes of reading--not bad--if I had 30 minutes! Now does this make anyones day seem a tad better I hope because my tootsies are tired and my back is killing me! But, I love this life!!! I hope Hub isn't working late tomorrow! I think I need a time out! I was thinking an hour massage would be nice!

Dealing with Football & Aligators in the night!

Do-dudes is going for the hit--well we are gearing up anyway! Who said this was easy? I find myself leaning to the right as he hits the pads. Go Do-dude Mom is pushing forward with you. Uh Mom, I can't get this thing off my noggin! HELP! My Blue Boy created this little setup here for him and his new friend. I think that they were to busy making the rules though because they really never got to follow through with all of it! Here they are making the rules and the teams! It was just the two of them. 'uperman was just watching this interesting process! 'uperman is making sure that the grass was okay and letting me know that it needed thining in a spot and was insistant that I took a picture of it! Football has started this week but, this was our first practice with a helmet. Do-dudes head needed a Medium helmet that had to be ordered. Sorry, Kiddo you inherited your Boppa's noggin! They worked on tackling. Do-dude was kinda intimidated to just hurt the pad like it was another kid, but, I know with time that if he just imagined it was his brother messing up his Lego ship that he just built, he probably would have no problem. This does happen on occasions and it is not the funnest thing to handle. But, we live and love here, don't we boys. My Do-dude is growing up so fast!! My baby 'uperman 'ukerfish (superman sucker fish) wanted his Alligator on the way home from practice. I couldn't quite figure out this child and what in the world was an alligator to a 2 year old? All he kept saying is, "my alligator mommy, MY ALLIGATOR!" I am trying to drive down the highway and I have a kid screaming in his most big boy voice, trying to make clear what he wanted--it is just an Alligator for goodness sakes! Okay since I couldn't figure this out for the life of me I summoned the other two in the back, "What on this green earth is 'uperman talkin' about?" "I dunno!" was all the help I got from the back seat! Thanks guys! Racking my brain on what 'uperman 'ukerfish in the back seat wanted and it finally hit me what the child was talking about. He wanted his Gatorade! When I asked him if that was it ,he said, " yes, I want my alligator". Wow, that was confusing enough especially since I felt like I was in manual drive from being up so early this morning--thanks again Tori-I do love ya though! And just for the record in my house Gatorade is really called Alligator to my 'uperman 'ukerfish. (My superman sucker fish is what he calls himself just in case any of you are confused!) The football in the dirt is something that My Blue Boy came up with to keep him busy with his new little friend and 'uperman. They are also the cheering squad and 'uperman is grass control, making sure that it was okay and is thined correctly. Enjoy and watch out for the Alligators!