Flag Football

Last winter Christopher decided he wanted to try out flag football. Of course, we were already one week into the season but we were able to find a league that would take him. We signed him up for the 10-12 year-old league. He had just turned 10, but he is a good athlete so we figured it would be a good fit.

I liked the structure of this league. It was 2 hours per week on Sunday afternoon. The first hour was practice and the 2nd hour was the game. His very first practice, he was given the medal for the week. The word for the week was "Listening" and his coach said the "new kid" did the best job listening. I think it was a few more weeks before we went from "new kid" to Chris.

Christopher learned quickly and it didn't take the coach too long to figure out that he was also quick as the dickens.

Did I mention that they decided to combine leagues so he was actually playing 10-14 year-olds? There were kids out there with facial hair - not a very fair match up, but I digress. The coach designed a special play for Christopher and the kid (I guess I didn't do any better with names than the coach did) who usually played quarterback. (I would say almost facial hair, but definitely growth spurt.)

QB would hand off to Christopher and then CBT would make a little shovel pass back to the QB. It was awesome and amazing all at it. Christopher just completed one of those passes here. (I confess these pictures aren't nearly as good as other sports - it was just plain too cold to get out the good camera.)

While he just seemed to small to me out there, that didn't stop him. He was quick. He was part of the play whenever he should of been.

He's making a great play here - trust me, I know he's tiny. He "ripping" the guy with the ball. ("Ripping" I learned was what you said instead of "tackle." Makes sense.

Short season, but it was fun.

Christopher's 10th

I've been a little slow in posting about Christopher's birthday party. Could be because I just don't want my baby to grow up. (Although he has told me that he will always be my baby. What a sweetheart!) CBT, seen here with his longtime friends Michael and Parker, plans his birthday for months in advance and then executes on his strategy without a lot of parental involvement.

This year's plan was a couple of games at LaserQuest with pizza and then a spend-the-night party with game playing until late at night. Hopefully, before the wee morning hours of last year's party.

The laser game and the pizza went off quite well. Time to get all the boys home and to the cupcakes. CBT had a special cupcake that had so much icing. The icing part was as thick as the cupcake. Now, he loves chocolate (which proves he is genetically linked to the Folmar family), but this cupcake had too much chocolate even for him. I couldn't believe it. That is, until I tried to finish it off for him. Too much chocolate indeed.

From cupcakes to the Wii. His older brother was helpful in creating brackets for a Wii tournament. (Big brothers can be nice and sweet sometimes.) CBT and Drew ended up in the championship game. I am not sure who won, but they did seem to enjoy it.

It's such a great bunch of boys. Some of them I had in Tater Tot Sunday School when they were 2....where does the time go?

More of CBT's Birthday

I'm sure I've mentioned before that we tried to really set Christopher's birthday apart from Thanksgiving. There was the spend-the-night party a week before and then the day-long celebration on the date. There was the remote-controlled race and more cake. It was an awfully cute little birthday cake that Mama Grace got for him.

I had a few funky candles and for the second time this year, CBT was blowing out candles.

With only nine to blow out, he handled it quite easily.

After the singing and cake, it was back to play with more of his birthday toys. He loves NERF guns. We are now the proud owners of a NERF tommy gun. He is quite the special ops guy for a 9-year-old.

I think all-in-all he had a good birthday.

Baseball Heartbreak

It was hot.  CBT has swimmer's ear, which by the way, is an infection of the middle/outer ear.  Didn't swim growing up so I never knew that.  I also never knew it is painful.

The district tournament started today.  It was a hard fought game and we were truly in it to the end.  CBT really struggled today - he is so hard on himself.

I really hate that I didn't get my "focus dot" in the right place for this play.  He made an amazing catch in right field.  Tomorrow is another game at 2pm.  Now that we are in the losers' bracket maybe we can catch a break (or maybe a ball- LOL).