My poor daughter... this football loving, car racing little girl will one day discover that she was born to two musical, artsy fartsy, theater loving and, unfortunately, sports illiterate parents. Good thing she has Uncles and Grandpas. ;)

After a delicious oatmeal breakfast and a good hand/face washing this morning (that oatmeal gets EVERYWHERE!), Madeline raced to the living room with two of her favorite toys- a race car (that she loves to "vroom" all over mommy's arms, back, and head) and her Uncle Levi's football. What's amazing to me is that she already knows how to punt. I don't know if she saw it on TV, but she's pretty good at it. She will carefully place the football on the little plastic punter-thingy (I assume that is what it is??), then kick it off, all while squealing in joy. It is absolutely adorable. It's even sweeter knowing that Levi was the punter and kicker* for his high school football team, and my dad was a punter* for the Navy football team.

*I'd like to clarify that I called Levi to ask him "Are you a punter or a kicker? Or is there even such a thing as a kicker? Is a punter a kicker? Or am I making this 'kicker' word up?" all while he laughed in the background. He cleared it up for me- they are two different things, of which he was both, and dad was just a punter. Learn something new every day... ;)