Sunday, March 14, 2010

In a childs mind...

Yesterday Zach and I thought it would be fun to take the kids to a hockey game. The fire station that Zach works for is very involved in raising money for MDA. MDA was a big part of the hockey game last night. They had a bunch of local firefighters in their bunker gear collecting money by "Filling the Boot". Gracie was super excited to see all the firemen and got lots of stickers, but could not find her daddy...even when he was standing right in front of her...calling her name. She has seen Zach a million times in his work uniform, but never in his bunker gear. Anyway, the entire way to the hockey game Gracie kept asking about the "Froggie game". She wanted to know all about it. It took me forever to figure out that she was talking about the HOCKEY game! I tried explaining to her that it was a bunch of big boys on ice skates playing a game, but she didn't get it. I finally gave up when we got to the parking lot. She got so excited because she finally figured out what we were doing! We were seeing Little Einsteins! We weren't. A few years ago I took her to this same arena to see Little Einsteins, she thought they lived there. As we got closer to the entrance she saw all the firemen, she wasn't sure what to do with that information. We finally got in, got to our seats and started to watch the game. Gracie's eyes were HUGE for about the first 5 minutes...then she was over it. She wanted popcorn. Daddy took her to get her popcorn, but once in hand she decided she wanted a cookie. So daddy took her for a cookie, on the other side of the coliseum. They got their cookie, popcorn, and pop and made their way back to the seat. Gracie then realized that lots of people had glow sticks...yes, daddy took her out for glow sticks. Then she had to go to the bathroom. You see where this is going right?! She's 4. Jake on the other hand said his hello's to all his loving admirers and promptly fell asleep before the 1st period even started. And stayed asleep for almost all of the game. That is some heavy sleeping! Thank God we had Grandpa with us! He got to enjoy bits and pieces of the game, hold a sleeping Bubba, and take Ms Gracie Lu for a lap around the coliseum. Once we were all piled into the car I asked Gracie if she had fun, she said, "Ya, it was ok...but I never saw a game". LOL.

2 comments:

roweboat said...

Silly girl!

Anonymous said...

Too funny! That is sooo her!;)