Football!

Meredith is officially a football fan. Tonight we attended the Augsburg College season opener; vigilant past readers will remember that our next-door neighbor is the head coach there, and we have all been swept up in all the preparation for the season.

Meredith and I had a great time. Derek (who is the one who actually knows about football, having grown up in Green Bay) stayed home with Elaine. One would think that I would know enough about football to satisfy a four-year-old, but it was a three-hour interrogation: why did they stop? whose turn is it? why are we clapping? who is that? did we win? Mer was working so hard to understand the game. And she loved cheering "Go Auggies!," giving the mascot a high-five, and watching the game intently through the chain-link fence. She also ate a great deal of popcorn, shared with Jr., with a big sweatshirt wrapped around both of them as it got colder. The funniest part, though, was the first time-out. "Why did they get a time out?" Mer demanded. "What did the gold team DO?!"

-JRR