World Cup Crazy!

If you walk into our house anytime between the hours of about 6 and midnight, you are likely to hear what sounds like a swarm of bees. What you would actually be hearing are the vuvuzela's that are played non stop during every.damn.game.

Apparently every 4 years, Brian's favorite sport becomes soccer. And he has to watch every.damn.game. Do you see a theme here? Literally, he records (on Hi Def so it eats up all our room on the DVR) every game. Some games he will actually watch the whole thing. Sometimes he listens to just the national anthems and then fast forwards until he sees a goal. Hits stop, rewinds, and then watches the goal. It is so weird.

So in honor of the World Cup invading my house, I've created a short list of all the things I love and hate about the World Cup.


Things I hate about the World Cup (and soccer in general)
1. Vuvezela's - the most annoying sound ever and every single game they are blaring
2. The "magic" cold spray. Everytime someone is injured, the trainers run out and spray what appears to be hair spray on the injured body part and magically, these players go from writhing and rolling on the ground (do they have no dignity?) to running around on the field again.
3. There are no time outs. Why don't they just follow every other sport and give each team a certain number of time outs? Because they don't have them, towards the end of the game when the teams are tired, players will just fall down and pretend they are injured (more rolling around on the field) until everyone has a little rest and then they pop right up.
4. "Extra" time at the end. I don't know what this is called but if they waste time during their time outs that are not really time outs they add a +3 or a +4 to the end of the game. It's very confusing because you don't know until the 90 mins are up if you are going to have any + minutes.
5. Not letting players sub out. Once a player leaves the game, they can't come back in. Which again leads to more rolling around on the field to get the rest because of no time outs. It's a vicious cycle.
6. Yellow and red cards. They have fouls that don't mean anything but if you foul too aggressively (causing the other player to roll around on the field seems to be the threshold) then they give you a "yellow card". There are all kinds of crazy rules around these like if you get 2 then you can't play in the next game and stuff and if you get a red card you're out but they don't seem to have any consistency on when they are held up.


Things I like about the World Cup (and soccer in general)
1. The eye candy
2. See #1

Speaking of some eye candy. Last Saturday our friends Sara and Brendon went to a wedding so they asked us if Colin could come over for a playdate with Charlie.

Colin really liked our big screen TV and was craning his neck around to watch. Guess what was on? Soccer of course.

A little tummy time for the boys. At one point it looked like Colin was going to roll over but he didn't! Apparently Charlie rolled over twice at daycare last week but so far he has resisted doing it at home. I will ask him to roll over but he just smiles at me and instead Sasha rolls over. :)

They had a great time with eachother!



I couldn't resist adding this one. We've been lucky to be able to put Charlie down at night in his crib wide awake and then he'll fall asleep pretty quickly but one night last week he needed a little extra snuggle time with daddy.

After bathtime and looking very sleepy!

Last week we also started Charlie on some cereal. So far he doesn't really seem to love it but he doesn't hate it either. Some nights I feel like he's catching on and some night he just spits it back out at me and grins. But we try it at least once everyday!

We also celebrated Brian's first father's day. Unfortunatley I realized after Charlie went to bed that I didn't take any pictures of them together (big Mom fail.) For the weekend we went to my parents house and Charlie got to take his first boat ride. He slept the whole way through it so I'm hoping to get some good awake pictures when we go back this weekend for the 4th of July!

Charlie loves to stick his bottom lip out when he's either mad or sleeping. I will work on getting one where he's mad but here he is one night after we got home from daycare.