Monday, September 24, 2007

Football Mommy, Football!

Yesterday, we watched our beloved Steelers beat the 49ers. Made even better by the fact that we live in the Bay Area, so I could gloat at school today. Ulysses watched the entire game with us (playing on the side). About the beginning of the 4th quarter, he started saying "Football, mommy. Football!" Who's Bond-o and I were like "Duh, you've been watching it for 2 hours now!" He kept pointing upstairs, so I assumed he wanted his Steeler football and told him to go up and get it. So he went upstairs, all the time chanting "Football mommy. Football!"

He finally came downstairs carrying my Jerome Bettis jersey. See, he loves his "football shirts" (jerseys). Something must have clicked at that moment as if to say, "Hey, I have one of those! Why isn't it on my body?!" He can't reach into his drawer to get his own, so he decided to wear mine. Now keep in mind that this is my dad's old jersey that I inheritted 3 years ago, and it is HUGE! But Uly wanted his football shirt, and I couldn't deny him. (And heck if I was going to miss the game long enough to go get his for him.) So, he rips of his own shirt, and we put the gigantic jersey on him. Here he is!






He'll fit into it one day. I'll save it for him, and he can wear Pap Pap's "football shirt".

5 comments:

Rachie said...

Hey John, reason #1,274! :)

Rachie said...

TO have kids, by the way!

Anonymous said...

Seems like a great reason to have kids to me! I think our number of reasons why currently out number John's reasons not to!

SFC Guard Recruda said...

This is one of the 10 reasons to have kids. Ulysses only gave us one reason not to have kids but gave us 3 or 4 reasons to, can you guess the reason I chose not to from our visit.

~ L said...

Cute picture!

I saw a series of photos once that was fantastic...reminds me of your little guy in the jersey.

The photos had this little girl in this Pucci style dress from toddler age through her early twenties. First she was swimming in the fabric, but then, little by little, you could see her growing into it. Fianlly, at the end of the series she was all grown up.

It was incredibly cute! It made we wish I had thought of doing something like that.