Football is back!

This was our first weekend home in Boston in a long time and we had so much fun! Saturday morning started with a 2 mile "hike" up Prospect Hill in Waltham. (I don't know if you can technically call it a hike if we walk up a paved road.....but with all those steep hills, I classify it as one!) We made a pledge to do this every weekend until the weather gets too cold.

At 3:00 we headed to the BC game vs. Kent State. This was Mikey's first FULL football game. He lasted 4 quarters and loved it! He was slightly clingy to me like last week but as the game progressed he was able to sit next to me on the bench. Mikey would point to the football players and grunt "ahh-ahh" and would clap from time to time. When the marching band was done playing "Buttercup" he signed "more"!! And he ate and drank water like a champ. He literally was chugging water out of a regular bottle of water.....without spilling!

(Mikey doesn't usually like to keep his sunglasses on, but I guess it was a little too bright)

(Eating veggie sticks....isn't that what everyone eats at football games?!?!?)

The highlight of the game (aside from the BC win!) came when we were leaving and Mikey spotted the police motorcycles. (Mikey is very much into transportation vehicles these days.) The policemen waved us over and asked us if we had our camera with us (duh!). When we said we did, they said, "Hop on! We'll take your picture!". Michael and I thought that we were going to hand Mikey over to them....but instead they let us SIT on the motorcycle! Mikey was very excited! He even gave the cops a high-five at the end! It's always a good thing to be friends with the Boston Police!! (As a little side note, if Michael looks like he is in pain in the picture it's because he was. His leg touched the exhaust pipe of the motorcycle seconds before the picture was taken. Today his leg is bubbly where the burn mark is! Ouch!)

Today is Sunday. The first day of the regular season of New York Giants football. Mikey was so excited that he woke up at 6:15 this morning from his normal 7:30-8:00 time! Lucky us! Since we live in Boston and have to compete with the Patriots, our game was not televised on regular TV. Boo. So we headed to Joe and Jake's Sports Bar in Norwood with Maryanne and Sean Irwin (and baby Irwin due on the 25th!). We had such a great time watching the Giants win (it was ugly but they pulled it off!) and spending time with friends. Mikey made friends with half of the restaurant as he did some laps around the bar to work off his meal!! He proudly sported his Brandon Jacobs jersey that we bought at the Giants training camp last summer. I wasn't able to get a family picture of us today in our Giants gear, but I definitely will next week!

Welcome back, fall! We missed you! We're looking forward to many more weekends like this in the months ahead!