whilst MOFM was off to Boston, carousing about with her friends under the guise of participating in a baby shower (although i'm sure at least 3 or 4 hours were spent having a baby shower), i took it upon myself to join Notso Matter of Fact Daddy in taking BB to his first flag football game! what excitement, eh? the other grandma had BS duty.
we arrived at the field a little early, even after stopping for football shoes, a mouth guard, and pizza. there were a million kids there! okay, maybe hundreds. in one corner of the field was a moon bounce which, of course, attracted more kids than the coaches trying to gather their teams!
first pic - BB attempting to insert mouth guard into mouth...no easy task...made him gag! in this pic, he looks EXACTLY like MOFM! hahahaha
practice began, and for a half an hour or so the coaches attempted to teach the kids how to pull the 'flags' off of the kid carrying the football, and the kid carrying the football how to avoid the kids chasing them for the flags. keep in mind these kids were 4-6 years old and the attention spans were pretty short. i think one kid on each team 'got it'. after the practice the referee arrived ready to start the game. by now however, most of the kids were really ready to head for the moon bounce.
the ref started the game, the ball was hiked to a kid, and off they went....literally, in all directions. very cute. BB didn't get a chance to carry the ball until the second half, which was with a different team than the first half. he was hiked the ball...stood there for a minute until somebody screamed at him to run with the ball...he ran 20 feet, (number 9 in the pic) a good darn run, then lost his flag. good job! high fives all around. 10 minutes later the second half was over and every single kid on every single team headed straight for the moon bounce.
after a half hour at the moon bounce, BB decided he was hungry, having not eaten but a couple bites of his pizza. NMOFD refused to let him have a hotdog at the field and told him he could eat when he got home. go figure. anyway, he screamed most of the way home, with NMOFD telling him 'i will put you out of the car in that forest over there, which doesn't look too comfortable', if he didn't quit screaming. evidently that scared him. he finally said 'i want a peanut butter & jelly when i get home'...NMOFD won that one...kinda, i guess...
BB's neck was sunburned, NMOFD's head was sunburned, i didn't even get pink! according to my ex my skin is done...finished...unable to attract even UV light! nice, eh?
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Thank goodness you were there to take over. Did he really say that to BB, about the forest and leaving him there????
yeah, WM, i'm afraid he did say that...he says weird stuff from the recording in his head - you know, the one from, i'm sure, his dad or maybe even his mom...they are kinda strange, off the wall people..as MOFM has blogged about...
"...from the recording in his head" is one of the funniest things I've heard in a while. Sounds like quite a guy....
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