Sports

In my twenties, I never would have thought that I'd be blogging so much about sports, but here I am again reporting on football games and soccer.  We had another enjoyable (and HUGE) Tiger football victory Saturday night.  Evie, Granna, and I went early so we could see Tom, hear the band, and miss the traffic.  Evie had her usual fare of hotdog, sweet tea, and cotton candy.  This time she really got into singing along with the Fight Song and other cheers, including "Tiger Rag" (aka "Hold that Tiger").

Checking out Tom III

Mini cheerleader by the blue helmet

Modeling her hair bow

You can tell she's really adored by these two.

Yesterday was another soccer practice.  Evie and all the other girls seemed very tired so practice was a little frustrating for Coach Whit who was operating solo since Coach Kyle was out of town.  The girls are more interested in huddling and hugging each other (Evie says it's time to "puddle up") and I was very amused by the girls' cheer/team "puddle" at the end of practice.

Language funnies:

• Looking at some fake sugar packets that were alternated pink, yellow, pink, yellow, Evie says, "Look!  It makes a patt-ren!"
• I turned on Elvis Presley singing "Puppet on a String" while getting her ready for bed one night.  She says, "Awwww, I wish I could marry him

Astounding memory moment of the week: we were talking about making jack-o-lanterns and she reminded me that last year a squirrel ate her pumpkin.  Last YEAR!

We went to IHOP yesterday and sat in a 2-seater booth, so by necessity Evie had to be independent, across from me.  As we were getting up to leave, the couple that was sitting behind her complimented both of us on Evie's behavior, remarking how good she was at holding a conversation and how nice it was to sit next to a child who didn't climb all over the place and scream.  We go to restaurants about once a week and teaching her appropriate behavior in a variety if places is something that's very important to me.  I think many people would say I am too strict, but I feel like part of my parenting responsibility is teaching my child how to behave in different settings, so I was glad to receive some positive feedback.

She's been fascinated lately with why people smoke.  We talked about it after she saw someone smoking and I explained what smoking is and what it does to your body.  She immediately put together connections about villains in some movies (like Cruella deVille) smoking, and she'll bring it up fairly often.  She also recently learned that when Seth and I lived in California someone stole our car.  She's puzzled by this and is trying to figure out why someone would do this.  This week, she said, "Why somebody stole your car?" "I don't know, baby, they probably just wanted to take it out for fun."  "Maybe they smoke cigarettes."  And then she sang a song that included lyrics of "The guy who's smoking never wins, the girl who's smoking never, ever wins."

This week out of the blue, she said to my Dad, "I wonder what ChuuChu is doing."  Dad asked if she meant what ChuuChu is doing in heaven, and Evie said, "Yeah.... maybe she's pooping."  Dad said, "May be..."