Hell Month Begins

Jacob is playing football and hell month started this week. He has practice for 2 hours a day Monday-Friday. We were warned he'll whine, he'll complain, he'll say he's sore, he may throw up. Jacob did none of the above. He went out there gave it his all and alot of times was right in front of the pack. Not bad for one of the biggest kids on the team. The only bad news we got was he had to peel off 7 pounds by the August 16th weekend. He is down 3.5 after 4 days with 14 days to go. He'll make it no problem. Though he's not happy about giving up all the carbs and dairy. We told him after the 9am weigh in on the 16th we'll take him for a triple scoop hot fudge sundae with all the whip cream he wants. If that isn't incentive I don't know what is.

Kayley is going thru hell week too for cheer. It's amazing what they are making these cheerleaders do. They are running, doing pushups, doing situps oh and did I say running? Let's just say running is one of Kayley's least favorite things to do. It's been great for her and as she said at the end of Hell Month, week 1. I better have a body like Jessica Alba when I finish all this.

My favorite conversation this week was on the way home from practice on Monday night. Kayley was saying her legs hurt. Apparently they had them doing some sort of sit up with their legs in the air. Jacob chimed in well did you do bear crawls, those sit-ups are nothing compared to bear crawls. I loved listening to them compare who had the harder drills and i'm sure it wasn't the first or last time we'll hear a conversation like this.