Weekend of First's

Eric decided it was time the twins played football. He originally said they weren't playing until high school but he has since realized that's unrealistic in this competitive world we live in. It took two hours to try on and size all their gear on Saturday and I about choked to death when Eric told me how much it all cost. Football is a very expensive sport. It's going to take me an hour to help them get into all their gear, 3 nights a week and games on Saturday. They seem to like it other than Jackson injuring his knee (water on his knee). They scrimmage this Wednesday and have only been to 2 practices. This ought to be interesting. I'll post pictures with their uniform and helmets on later. We're waiting on those.

Boston put their shoulder pads on and didn't want to take them off. He's a die hard through and through. The twins would rather play a video game than exercise but Boston is in constant motion.

Another first, the twins were fighting over a book to actually read - a chapter book! This is monumental. It was a Captain Underpants book but who cares about the title. What is important is that they had their nose in a book.

The twins Sketcher's came in the mail and for the first and probably only time, Kennedy, Jackson, Leighton and myself can all wear the same size shoe! I doubt I'll be wearing their light-up Sketcher's but am really taking advantage of Kennedy's shoe size.

And finally, I played a board game (Monopoly) with the kids and even lasted an hour! Boy was Kennedy shrewd. She bought up every property and covered them with houses and a hotel. She had a plan and no one was going to get in her way. I intentionally bought up property so I would run out of money so I would be done with the game. My attention span was up after one hour. If you were wondering, that's where my kids get it.