March Madness

Aiden and his crazy hair after a nap

Aiden wanted me to take a picture of how his ballon was stuck to his face.  And yes, Aiden prefers not to wear pants when we are at home.

 

My pictures from this week are random ones of Aiden being silly, but I wanted to post about March Madness and our recent hobby of watching sports on television.  Over the long winter, Luke developed a favorite nightly ritual with John.  Almost every evening after we have finished dinner, played, taken baths, etc...he will ask John if there are any games on that they can watch before bed.  What started as a hockey, basketball, or football game on occasion developed into a passion to know who won, what was the score, how many points did they win or lose by, etc...Liam also plays along with this, but not quite to the extent of Luke.  However, when we turn on a game, the boys immediately ask John-"who are the bad guys and good guys and what color are their uniforms?"  They then decide which ones they are rooting for and name the bad guys and the good guys (by color of uniform) in a particular game. 

 

Both Luke and Liam have shown a strong interest in numbers over the last year.  They are counting things all the time, informing us of the posted speed limit, and adding or subtracting.  They do a "hundreds board" where they use numbered pieces to count to 100 and there is a row for the 20's, 30's, 40's, etc...  When they are watching basketball games, they will tell us the score by saying that the "bad guys are on the 20 row, but the good guys are on the 30 row so they are winning." 

 

Luke and Daddy watching the game

Game time

John obviously has his favorite teams and one of them is the Iowa Hawkeyes since his parents both attended the University of Iowa.  He has brainwashed influenced Luke to cheer for the Hawks as well.  I usually sit back and watch all of this until last week when the Iowa Hawkeyes played the Baylor Bears (where I graduated from college) in the NIT basketball championship.  Luke and Liam were quick to pick the Hawks to win; however, Aiden sided with Mommy and the Baylor Bears.  In the end, the Bears actually beat Iowa but I felt a little sorry for Luke.  He had to go to bed before the game was over, but the first thing out of his mouth the following morning was, "Did the Hawks win?"  We called John at work so he could break the news to Luke who was disappointed, but there is always next year!