Lucas Playing Football

Earlier this week Lucas took one of his footballs to school so that he could play with it at recess. He came home and told me that he had his BYU football and one of his friends also had a BYU football that he also brought to school. Then he told me this story. "I played football with my friends. It was me and Kaden against Dillon and Zeke and Body. My team was the Austin Collie BYU team and Dillon's team was the John Beck BYU team. Kaden and I won. Can you believe that? It was two against three and we won!" I replied, "Really? Why do you think you won?" (I asked this thinking that Dillon was at home telling his mom how he won the football game at recess.) Lucas said, "Because I told Kaden, fake a pass and I'll run a fade route, then throw me the football. So Kaden faked a pass and then threw me the ball. I caught it and ran. I didn't have a touchdown yet but I stopped and turned to Dillon and said, look at me Dillon. Then Dillon came after me, I ran, and I got a touchdown." He finished his story and happily went to do something else. He was so serious and it just made me laugh. Here he is, six years old, telling me about faking passes and running fade routes. I love it. I do have to say thank you to Uncle Scott and Uncle David who have spent time with him teaching him about football. He loves playing with you whether it's here in our family room or in Idaho in the front yard!