Last night we took the kids to a football game. We went to several last year - the boys loved going, Rosie loved watching the band and cheerleaders and Daisy tolerated the whole thing by wearing ear muffs and constantly asking if it was over yet.
Fast forward a year:
The boys were still totally 'into' the game. Rosie was very interested in the cheerleaders and semi interested in the actual game. She asked me, "Who is winning?" several times.
And then there's Daisy.
She wore the ear muffs again. She noted that the music wasn't too loud, but she still preferred to wear the muffs. She is the ever observant child - NOTHING gets past her. This was SO evident last night.
Just a sampling of her questions: (and a few of her comments to my answers)
Why is the policeman standing there?
Why are the steps going down to the field blocked by a chain?
Why can't the band play on the field with the football players? (When I explained half time and the players taking a break, getting a drink of water, etc.. she said that they already had a cooler full of water (she noticed this earlier) so did that mean that someone had to bring that to the locker room, too?)
Why are they only playing on one side of the field? (This was funny to me, as our team won 55-14. When the opposing team actually scored, she noticed the side of the field they were on and said, "That's not good, is it Mommy? They just scored a touch down, didn't they?")
She asked several other questions. She asked so many questions that I noticed the only time she wasn't asking me something was for about the first three minutes of the halftime show. She was in awe. Perfectly still. And then the questions started about the drum major.
I think it is safe to say that she has a love of the game - and I mean all of it: the game, the music, the people. In fact she cried when we left. I had to promise her that she could watch a football game today on TV.
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WaWa would be soooo proud!
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