March Madness

The reaction from the boys when they heard MOM was winning the March Madness brackets (the winner changed a bit after this weekend's games)

Who is winning the brackets you ask?

Mom and Liam are now tied after the Sweet 16 game!
  Luke, Liam, and Aiden completed their brackets for the first time this year.

Luke and Liam, in particular, are beginning to enjoy watching sports on television as well as in person.  They still want to know who we are rooting for and still refer to the teams as "bad guys" and "good guys."  Their favorite sport to watch, of course, is hockey.  Aiden enjoys watching sports to some extent, but still doesn't have quite the interest of Luke and Liam.  We are trying to branch out and watch some basketball, baseball, and football rather than just hockey.  The boys each ask at least 1-2 questions every 3.1 seconds during any game so it can be a little difficult to actually follow the games.  They know the names and numbers of most of the players on the MINNESOTA WILD hockey team and have even asked us to record late night games so they can watch them the following morning.

This year we decided to complete the March Madness brackets with Luke, Liam, and Aiden and have some competition among everyone.  John and I have been filling out these brackets for several years and enjoy following the games.  It was a little tricky to explain the process of selecting teams to the boys, but once they heard that the winner would get to pick a place to go get ice cream, it really didn't matter what we were doing.

Liam and Mom are currently tied in the March Madness bracket competition.  Since we both picked Duke and Kentucky to play in the final four, if those two teams make the final game then we also have a tie breaker (total number of points scored in game) to decide the winner.  Should be fun!!