Night Game

We decided to take the boys to one Northwestern football game this season and went for this week's night game against Purdue. We lucked out with weather in the 80s yesterday, which made the night game doable in a long-sleeved t-shirt without bundling up. We made it through the first half and the boys did pretty well. They were enamored with two girls sitting in front of us who looked about 8 years old. The girls lent AJ and Davey their purple pom pons and the boys were grinning from ear to ear. Their other favorite highlight of the evening was definitely the food. We did pizza and hot dogs for dinner and for the grand finale introduced the boys to funnel cake. Needless to say, it was a hit. (See the powdered sugar all over my jeans in the picture?) At one point, AJ tried to close the funnel cake box when there were only little pieces left and Davey responded ripping it back open and stuffing the bits into his mouth with both hands.

In terms of the actual football watching, Davey is at a stage where he loves to clap his hands and say yeaaaaa!, so he would cheer along for both teams whenever anyone else in the stadium would cheer. AJ was able to be slightly more selective and cheer on cue for the wildcats, but he was overly generous in pronouncing everything from a field goal to a first down a "touchdown!!!" Turns out the Wildcats could have used an extra touchdown last night, but we had a good time anyway.