are you ready for some football?

we are ready for the great winter pastime - football! i think that this is one of the reasons people were inspired to finish off their basements - to create a football watching den to pass the long winters.

in honor of the beginning of the season, matt and maddie got all dressed up in their chargers gear for church this morning - matt even brought his chargers travel mug. since we are in packers country sunday mornings bring out a lot of jerseys, car flags and decals, and other team gear. we are one of the few families not in green. since the packers don't play until tomorrow there wasn't much in the way of green this morning.

once madelyn has her shoes on, she is ready to go - now! (and sometimes even before her shoes are on.) she calls out "go" and heads straight for the nearest door. and if you don't follow close behind she comes back to you repeating "go, go, go" the whole way. once she gets to you and tells you "go", back she heads to the door. she gets more and more agitated with each back and forth (not that she doesn't calm down when we explain that we have to do such and such), but we try to put her shoes on at the last moment to avoid any frustration.

i am pretty sure that she turned the doorknob to open our bathroom door yesterday - which is a little bit scary. i distinctly remember closing it about 15 or 20 minutes earlier and then the next thing i knew she was in there playing with the contents of the cabinets. we already have safety covers on all the exterior doors, but we might need to get some for the interior doors that we don't want her to be able to open (i.e. my office door).

she keeps us on our toes. love.