Our Football Fan

That smile!

Roman is a big football fan, and he loved loved loved going to a real live Aggie football game at Kyle field back in November.  His daddy is really hoping it sticks since none of the other boys are super interested in football.

He is often found in this position when a game is on.

Here's a couple of pictures from his first Aggie game back in November. He had THE best outfit, and we had the best seats too.   He loved the band and all the noise!
 

"All of Me"

Isaac is playing "All of Me" by John Legend and Roman is acting all Ray Charles, but without the sunglasses.

 Yes, yes.  I am crying in this video.  Roman's therapist had changed his straw and cup (same formula) the day before.  He "could" drink out of it, but he was refusing it this particular evening.  We tried everything and he was just screaming and angry that he couldn't have his old straw cup.  When everyone had finished dinner and Isaac started playing the piano, I sat there next to him because Roman loves to "play" the piano with him.  Brian was videoing this because, of course, it is adorable and I was just thinking how exhausted I was from the struggle and how wonderful and very worth it Roman is.  They were tears of joy and struggle all mixed up.

He ended up drinking from the cup when he was calm and distracted by the piano.  We have since backed up and are working on that straw and cup in therapy and trying to push him, but not too much.  It's a very fine line.

Senior Night

I mentioned recently that Genevieve is super busy right now and rarely home. That has lent itself to a few illnesses. She had a stomach bug that many people in the basketball team also had. And last week she was home with a fever and a sore throat that my mommy instincts led me to take her to get a strep test which was positive.  When she started to get sick she was panicking that she was going to miss her senior night for basketball. The last home game for seniors they do a special presentation and they give them a personalized basketball, team photos framed, and a basket of goodies that the teammates collect.  

Luckily we got those antibiotics just in the nick of time for her to be allowed to go back to school Friday afternoon so she could be a part of her senior night. However she had missed several days of practice, had been in bed, and was very weak still.  But Genevieve has all kinds of drive and motivation, and she played almost the entire game with a beet red face.  It was a good game, and I'm sad for the season to be ending.  I only have one more that's interested in basketball, Isaac and Judah are playing baseball this spring.  I don't have anything against baseball but it's just not as exciting to watch as basketball and the games are so very long.  Roman really enjoyed watching basketball all season and I'm not sure how he'll feel about baseball since it's harder to see what's happening and much slower.  He loves all the action and all the noise of a basketball game.

Back to Genna's night, her coaches said that she was "tenacious with a smile" which is so very true!  Her friends in the stands made cut outs of her and some of the other seniors and put them on Popsicle sticks which was kind of adorable.