Rock Chalk!

It seems like forever since last year's football season.  I really love this time of year because College Football is my favorite and I can tell that Lexie loves it just as much as her parents do.  Lexie and I have been spending quite a bit of time at the football facility over the past few weeks and ever since George started training camp.  Lexie really liked having her Daddy home over the summer so it was hard for her once he wasn't around as much.  I was really good at trying to take her to the office to see him at least once a day...it was sanity for the both of us.  This past summer had been so miserably hot that we spent most of our days holed up in the house or at Target (which was not nice to Daddy's wallet I might add).

KU Football Kick Off Pep Rally
Big Jay, Jackson, Lexie, and Gavin

Anyway, Football season and Fall go hand and hand and this weekend was absolutely gorgeous out (minus the few minutes of rain on Saturday that delayed the game a few minutes).  This was exciting to me because I had made up my mind that I was going to take Lexie to as many games as possible this season and Saturday's game was no exception even thought the game did not start until 6pm.  Lately she has been only taking one nap a day so I knew that this may be challenging because she would most likely go to bed earlier than normal so I decided that I would try to get her down for an afternoon nap to save us both from having a temper tantrum.  She could read me like a book and was not having it so I decided to head out to tailgate with my normal crew at The Smith-Wingate Tailgate Extravaganza (I'll post a group pic in the next blog). Lexie had not seen a lot of these people since last season when she was just a few weeks old.  Having flashbacks to those days....we have come a LONG way since then.  My fondest memory of last year was the back to back tailgates/games that we went to, which just so happened to be in the early afternoon, and on our way over to the Smith-Wingate Tent, Lexie had a massive blow-out each time that literally ruined everything she had on.  As a new mom, I remember trying to get her undressed without getting poop everywhere, she was screaming, I was nervous and on the verge of crying, oh my! I knew that this year was going to be much different and I had a little tear and a chuckle came out as I thought back to those days.  Now that Lexie is walking and really doesn't want to sit still there are new challenges. The one thing that I did have on my side was gravity and a slight incline from the hill that we were camped on.  Lexie fell a few times head over heels before she figured that it was best to camp out on the blanket and enjoy some Sloppy Joes.

Lexie, Laura, and Carter

Carter loved this tree

Lexie absolutely loved being out at the tailgate.  I am convinced that she understands it when people tell her how pretty she is.  She loves people and all of the attention.

Future Cheerleader?

Just before kick off there was a thunderstorm and I strapped Lexie into her jogging stroller and jetted to the football facility.  Lexie loves it in there, it's like her big playground.  Once we got inside she wanted out of the stroller and couldn't wait to check out all of the rooms and stop all of the people.  I could tell that she was starting to get tired though and I knew that it would be a huge mistake to even attempt to take her inside the stadium to sit down to watch the game, so we just went home.  Once we got home it was like she got her second wind.  As I turned on the LSU/Oregon game she was racing around the living room making just as much noise as the TV.  This was going to be a fight but I knew that she had to go to bed, it was almost 9pm.

We are going to try to get her to take a nap next Saturday so that we can hopefully make it into the game.  In the mean time we will just enjoy these amazing Fall Days and get plenty of park time in.

She loves the park

Lexie trying out the slide