FLAG FOOTBALL...

Our girlie-girl is playing football :0)  Flag football with Upwards Sports (yes, we love them).  I gave Bailey the choice, between cheerleading for the football teams and playing football; she chose to play!  The first practice, she was less than thrilled because she got mud on her...and she didn't appreciate that the other players were running after her (she had the ball and they were trying to pull her flag).  Now that she understands that it's part of the game, she still not thrilled with it....but she's warming up to the process.

She REALLY does NOT like the mouth guard they have to wear.   She can usually get away without it during practice, but for the games they are required to wear one.  The first game was this morning and I think she spent most of the one hour game, frustrated that the thing was in her mouth :0)

For part of today's game she got to play quarterback, which I think she really enjoyed simply because she got to boss people around (or so she felt as though she could do that :0).  Unfortunately, she was not a running quarterback (bad call coach!); I think she would have enjoyed running with the ball...plus she's older than several of the kids so she has some height/leg length on them.  No worries though, over all she had a great time and we're looking forward to next weekend's game!