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bragging rights!

i love this kid.....and by the way, i think his new name needs to be whizboy because he knows more stats than any other man i know - including my oldest brother!!! seriously, as we were watching the butler-duke game, i commented to hubby that i don't remember the last time a championship game was so close. whizboy rattled off the last game that was this close including the year, teams, and final score. i just laughed, i mean who knows that on the spur of the moment, and then was surprised when the paper the next day had the exact some stat! wowzers...

anyways...whizboy is playing flag football this spring and loving it. 2 weeks ago he jumped up to block a catch and took a pretty hard fall, sideways, on his hip. he hopped up and looked at us with this huge grin! he is quite the "coach" and likes to call the plays. he has even drawn up a few of his own:) honestly, his ability to see the field and know what to do does amaze me. he just might be a pretty decent quarterback someday!
you know, sometimes as a parent it feels like your kids challenge you non-stop. sometimes that is how i can feel with this boy. he can be quite difficult, strong-willed, and blatantly disobedient at times. but a few weeks ago while having coffee with one of my dear friends, she asked if whizboy had told me how he stood up for her daughter at school. um....nope....

she went on to tell me how she was being picked on by a boy and he was threatening to hit her. so whizboy stepped inbetween them and said, "if you are going to hit anyone it is going to be me!" seriously? my son?!!?!?

so when i picked him up i asked if something had happened at school he needed to tell me. when he asked why, i mentioned what i had just heard. you should have seen the pride in him. he was bursting at the seems!! i told him how proud i was that he showed courage and was willing to take a punch for his friend! i laughed when with all seriousness he said, "mom, i knew he wasn't going to hit me!"

and then....yesterday he gets in the car all somber like and tells me that he had been called to the principals office! oh boy!! but then he started to grin as he told the tale of being selected as one fo the 3 flag boys for his school next year. the principal chooses 3 boys from the 4th grade to raise the lower the flag all year! what an honor that was for him. and boy did he beam with pride again.

so, even though i feel beaten down and frustrated in this crazy world of raising boys - he is getting it. and i want to be sure to brag on those qualities:)



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Marc and Allison said…
You definitely have rights to brag! What a great kid!!!
May 29, 2010 at 8:50 AM
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