i interrupt christmas documentation to discuss some football. christmas morning and a december picture post is coming - i just know it - i can do it! BUT there is a pretty darn exciting lucy family event to be documented and that would be….drumroll…the girls went to their first uga game and even more important to document…drumroll…they loved every single second. we went to charlotte for our bowl game on the 30th.
these 2 are die hard georgia fans. both learned to call the dawgs as soon as they became verbal and at the game neither were above booing the cardinals or barking at passerbys (may need to work on sportsmanship). the short story is….they are dawg fans because their parents are. the long story is that both their parents attended UGA from 1997 until graduation in 2002 (girls…don't do the math on that one…college is a 4 year plan) so forgive me for the cheese BUT…win, loose or tie…we are dawg fans until we die. that's a done deal for trey and myself. but as for the girls….we are raising these cuties in tiger & gamecock country so we only have so many years to brainwash them before they apply to colleges. ha! totally kidding! (kinda)
i used to do sk-isms and such for sarah kate. may have done a few for hayes. that's the kind of thing that is fun to go back and read and remember!
i need to do more of that so here's a sarah kate kindergarten story….
about a month ago sk got upset while i was combing her hair one morning before school. or more so than usual and then she got upset about something else (can't remember) and basically i sent her off to school all grumpy. so i emailed her teacher to tell her that sk had a rough morning and that i hoped it didn't affect their day. she emailed me back later saying that sk was a tad emotional that morning but they had worked through it and that she had settled in beautifully and was doing great. her email said, "she got a little emotional about georgia football of all things and i reminded her that here in room 203 that there was only one team and that she was a big part of it and that we all work together to be bucket fillers each day." (bucket fillers….a positive behavioral management approach based off the book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today…they use it in their classroom and coincidentally, sk is the banker this week so she gets to fill her classmate's jars with pennies when they are earned. a job that she has LONGED to do since day 1.) so anyway, when sk got home from school i asked her why in the world she would be crying over georgia football in class. she started to cry and said, "well, because ALL of my friends cheer for the clemson tigers and i'm the only one who cheers for the bulldawgs and they say that the tigers are better and are ugly about it." of course i told her that crying over football was not appropriate and that her friends feel about the tigers the way she does about the dawgs but that she is outnumbered and will always be outnumbered since we live in sc so she'll just have to get over it! and bark like hell! (no, i didn't say that last part. but i did tell her that we did in fact beat clemson…i mean, let's be honest here kids.) i basically told her it was all silly & not to cry about it. when i told trey about it he thought for a minute and said…."that was justified. she should get upset about her football team. a true fan." good grief.
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it was freezing. the girls had on 2 pairs of pants, 3 layers on top plus a coat, 2 pairs of socks with tall boots, hats, and we put one of their new frozen blankets that mimi gave them to good use. not one "i'm cold" from those 2. sk ate 2 hotdogs (with buns), 2 donuts, 1 cup of hot chocolate, and 1 bag of popcorn. hayes didn't eat that much (because seriously, nobody in the whole stadium ate that much) but she still needed to tinkle about 7 times compared to sk's one trip to the potty.
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the girls cheered loud and proud and were fascinated by the game, the crowd and the fellow dawg fans behind us (i'd guess they were 8 or 9) who wore stuffed bulldog hats and had their faces completed painted half red half black AND who could have played the part of ricky bobby's sons perfectly in taledaga nights. wowsa. you can kind of see one of them in this next pic…
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| we arrived a tad early ;) |
and to top it all off….we won. it was a success all the way around and we are grateful! it could have easily been a disaster…..kids & game. proud of our dawgs - both little & big alike.
