Luke will be playing flag football in the fall. He played baseball this summer and proclaimed it, "not his sport." He feels that football will be his sport because it will be full of action with "no stupid waiting around for something to happen." We'll see. He may play one game of football and wish for some of the sweet downtime of baseball.
In preparation for his football season, we bought him the pee-wee sized football that will be used in his league. He played with it a little, and then proclaimed it the best thing he has ever gotten. Ever. And over the course of a few days, he has not let it out of his sight. He sleeps with it. And every hour or so he restates that it is the best present that he has gotten in years. In his life even.
This from the kid that begged for the Robo-Quad for Christmas. And from the kid who couldn't live without the DRex Pet. And from the kid whose life would be ruined if he did not get the 3D Video Spy Car.
So come December when he is making out his list to Santa, I am going to remind him of his past technology overload and how he played a total of 7 minutes with all of these toys and how the simplest of gifts earned his top honors. And I hope he'll remember still how much he loved his football. Because Santa is not made of money. But, Luke will remind me that Santa doesn't need money. His elves make all the toys that kids ask for.
And I'll have to remind him that Santa has to buy all the materials, and microchips are very expensive.
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Football is such an exciting sport...and definitely not much down time! I hope he enjoys it!
I have a football son at my house too! LOVES it! He too takes his football everywhere he goes. Who knows a football game just may break out and no one has a ball to play with :)
How quickly kids forget these things! My son loves football. My daughter hates football and also thinks Santa has endless money. It makes it even harder since her birthday is also in December!
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