August 25, 2006> 4:31 PM
the boy This is my son. Aaawwww, isn't he cuuute? It actually is a candid photo I caught the other morning. Conor is 12 and almost 5'10". Yes, the boy is huge. He's a very funny, goofy, good-natured boy. He's fairly innocent, for which I'm grateful, as well.
The Con is also naturally a very caring person. He's goofy but he has a "soft heart" when push comes to shove. Even with his sisters he is apt to want to help them more than not. Not that it doesn't backfire sometimes or that he doesn't have his selfish side. He's in Christ but hasn't yet earned his fully transformed badge yet. Come to think of it, neither have I.
This week he started park league football. This will be his first time to pay organize football (American football, you know what I mean). He's played baseball since he was pretty little but has talked about wanting to play football. I played when I was his age too - in 7th and 8th grade. I told him what it's like - hard and not nearly as nice as baseball. It's a rough sport. Part of my experience was good and part was pretty bad. Back then, especially in school ball, you were expected to know how to play football because you were male I guess. I had no such gene. At one point I was actually picked up by the helmet, off the ground and thrown down, being called a "big dummy" because I didn't know which direction a Tackle went on some play. Ahh, childhood memories.
Looks like Conor's experience will be much better. His coaches words to the kids and the parents yesterday, "teach first, win second" - awesome. His focus will be teaching these boys, especially ones who've never played, how to play the game. They can worry about winning after that. Sounds like a good deal to me. Should be an interesting thing watching him learn this new thing. It was funny too, to see Conor standing in the draft line with all the other 11 and 12 year-olds - at least an entire HEAD taller than all of them - aagghh! "I hope he's 12," the old guy said as he called him up. Makes me think of his nickname on his baseball team earlier this Summer - "BFG" - that would stand for Big Friendly Giant. Nice.
August 25, 2006
> 4:31 PM
This is my son. Aaawwww, isn't he cuuute? It actually is a candid photo I caught the other morning. Conor is 12 and almost 5'10". Yes, the boy is huge. He's a very funny, goofy, good-natured boy. He's fairly innocent, for which I'm grateful, as well.
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