Patrick Throws a Heavy Thing Over His Head

Aggie Football

Will resting up on his first again football game day

Patrick Coaching Basketball

Soccer Player

Timmy spent a lot more time at soccer practice playing with the plastic cones or looking for bugs in the grass than playing soccer. It took a lot of goading and cheering him on to get much ball kicking out of him.

He stuck his head through the net.

football thursdays

Football on Thursday? What had I intended to write here? Oh yes, that was the year Patrick was the head eighth grade football coach, and it was also the one and only year coaching that he got to run his own offense. It was like watching him play his video game, but, you know, actually interesting because it was real. There also happened to be some great athletes in that class. They're currently in high school right now, making news as they make a run in the playoffs. He saw them on espn and said, "Hey, I was the one who taught them to play football."

Soccer Day

Giving the Aggie soccer players high fives as they run into the stadium.

Aggie Game Day

Timmy's annual Aggie Football Game at Kyle Field with Daddy

Walking down our street to the A&M campus


Almost there, the stands look full.


Picking up tickets.

Backyard Soccer

Timmy 's playing soccer with a football.

Soccer Player

He fell asleep on the floor, holding his prized new soccer trophy. He likes to play with it as though it were a toy.

gymnastics

Timmy went to a gymnastics class this year. He says he likes to swing like a monkey. He also did somersaults down a ramp, jumped on a trampoline, walked the balance beam and played in a foam pit. It was his first activity without mommy. The first day he cried as soon as he noticed I hadn't followed him into the room. I told him, "Only kids get to go into the gym!", like it was a good thing. The next time he had no problem with it. He had a lot of difficulty listening, not running off or poking the other children. They ended up having me have to come in and try to control him while holding Lexa during the last few months. I was a little glad when it ended. He says he likes it though.

Here he is at the end of the year meet.

Haning like a monkey

Balance beam crawling

Timmy's First Aggie Football Game

Patrick wanted to take Timmy to his first A&M football game last weekend. They played Baylor, and A&M won. There was also a record breaking 97 yard touchdown run. Timmy was excited about going to see Reveille. He got to see her on the Jumbo tron at the game. They walked around campus, watched the band march in, and Timmy waved his twelfth man towel. During the end of the third quarter, he asked for me and Lexa. I was surprised and happy to hear that he missed Lexa too.

Patrick also took Timmy to the park last weekend. Patrick said he played around by himself kind of lazily until another little boy came, and that Timmy happily ran up to the boy, hugged him, and exclaimed that the boy was here to play with him. He was disappointed that Kaykay, a girl from playgroup, wasn't at the playground today. He kept asking where she was, saying she was lost. He calls all girls either Kaykay or Emmalin and all pictures of himself as a baby, Lexa.

Timmy gets scared sometimes now. Patrick said that Timmy was scared of a stick covered in moss on the way to the park. Timmy said it was a big worm that was going to bite him, and tiptoed the rest of the way to the playground. He's also scared of certain loud noises sometimes. I think he's scared of the dark if he wakes up alone, and sometimes he's scared of monsters, although he usually calms himself down and says they just want a Popsicle or a lollipop.

Football Tuesdays

Patrick's football games are Tuesday evenings. They got to play the other college station middle school this week at the high school's Tiger Stadium. It's exciting to watch sometimes, although for me it's mostly reading Timmy books, coloring, singing, and pretty much constant Timmy entertaining. Patrick is on the far side, very, very small, either yelling, calling out plays, or blowing his whistle.

Timmy's not very interested in watching football games.

Storytime

The sweetest picture. He's reading to Lexa.

Timmy's first time at Kyle Field. We went to the College Station vs. Bryan high school football game. It was a good game. College Station tigers won. Timmy liked the band's hats and drums. We saw the lights on an airplane in the night sky and he told me it was a spaceship. He really wanted to ride in the ambulance that was parked next to the field.

One other thing about this picture. I am SO going to get on the ball about losing post baby weight now.

Play Ball!

Timmy's first Astros Game

We went to an Astros game with our friends, Scott, Sam, Emmalin and baby Lilian. Timmy was hyper, I guess from the crowd and noise, and wouldn't sit still for a second. Every time people started clapping, Timmy clapped too, and he liked dancing when they played music. He thought he was watching the Aggies. And was running up and down the hallway at the stadium, swinging his arms, and yelling "Texas Aggies, Texas Aggies".

Bike - a - Ride

Timmy calls this going for a bike-a-ride. He saw a picture of a bike in a magazine yesterday and said wanna go on a bike-a-ride, bike-a-ride, bike-a-ride to Daddy enough that he got to go.

GOAL!

Patrick's soccer team has won two playoff games! It's really exciting even though it means he has to go to more games instead of being at home with us. They are playing in the third round tonight.