Proud Football Mom

#2 W is playing football for the pee wee league at his school. He is on the 3rd and 4th grade team. He played football last year with the 1st and 2nd graders but this has been a whole new ball game. They practice 3 days a week in full pads and run, run, run. He has not complained once or even acted like he wanted to skip even one practice. He spent the first few weeks dancing around his team mates out on the field. He perfected the art of holding back just long enough to miss out on the initial tackle but would run in and jump on the pile. He has learned so much more about the game of football and how to really play as the weeks have progressed. He played a game last week against a rival school who had a player more than a head taller than he is and weighing at least 20 lbs more. The game had come down to the wire and we were winning by one point. The other team was going for the 2 point conversion and my #2W was on the line. As the ball was snapped and passed to that big player, #2W ran around the outside and grabbed him around the waist and held on to him until one of his team mates come along and knocked them out of bounds saving the points and winning the ball game. He is learning that he doesn't have to be the biggest or best player but he has to be a player. This week, there game was at home and he made the first tackle of the ballgame. These days, We are LOVING PeeWee football.