6th grade Pro Bowl

It was a gorgeous day to finish out Brady's 3 year Indianola Youth Football League career. In this league players are drafted as 4th graders and remain on the same 4-5-6th grade team all three years. It seems like yesterday when I picked him up from his first practice as a 4th grader. It was drizzley and cool. I pulled up to see them finishing out practice with up-downs in the mud and thought. "Oh, this is not going to be good." He came to the car, got teary and said, "THAT WAS THE WORST PRACTICE I'VE EVER BEEN TO." I reminded him of it this year when he was excited for the first mud-filled practice- to be nice to those 4th graders who might not yet have an appreciation for it.

You can see Brady running the ball, #10 in the yellow pants, blue jersey. He played QB and today got to do a lot of awesome passing. Although they lost 14-7, he had fun- for the first time having all of his buddies on the field together. There were lots of hand-ups, pats on the backs and giggling. I don't think they cared who won in the end. I sat by a bunch of mom friends and laughed as my friend Becky yelled to Matt- "GET HIM!" and I pointed out that it was Brady that she had instructed Matt to pummel.

Basketball practice starts this week and he is ready to move on to his favorite sport. Kenzie is working hard in tumbling with her first meets on November 5 & 20. She's thrilled to move up to sub-advanced in double-mini with a much more tricky pass.

The entire Held family has volunteered at the local haunted house next Friday as scarers. We'll let you know that goes. Pass the ear plugs. Kenzie found her Halloween costume. She is a "devil-fairy." I know you are not surprised and yes, this was pre-packaged and not of her own design. Although she declared it "perfect." Brady is yet undecided but he is thinking about being a banana.

Love to all,
Leslie