So, when Aggie football season started, Atticus got really into it this year! We went to a game, we watched games, we cheered for the Aggies! And then he started getting into the SEC teams and their mascots. He started drawing them and picking who to cheer for when SEC teams played each other. Then, he started with other conferences and learning their mascots and states and who was good and who was not good. As the end of the season neared, he became more and more obsessed and had to check scores all the time! He started memorizing stats of win/loss records and who was ranked higher. So, when it was time to announce bowl games, Atticus was even more excited! Atticus has always been our child that goes ALL into learning about his passion. With animals, he knew every type and we read books and set them up and talked about animals that no other 3 or 4 year old would know about. Then it was the same with dinosaurs. Then, it was the same with Star Wars. He transitions from one thing to another and he doesn't always remember the details of the previous passion when he's onto the next one. So, for football scores and mascots, this was all the same! By the time Christmas hit, you could ask him any team and he would tell you their record, who they were playing (or already played and if they won or lost) and what bowl game they played, and all of the stats of the other team they played. He could do this for all of them and as soon as he did, you could fact check him and he was right! So, it was a really fun football season with Atticus! I will not forget when we were headed to Sanger for Christmas and we passed the UNT stadium and Vic pointed it out and Atticus immediately tells us all of the info. It was so quick and random (UNT is not SEC and I didn't know he knew it so well) that I checked him and every stat he said was right.
Toward the end of college football, he became interested in NFL as well and would constantly check scores and keep track. Then, in December, he also got interested in college basketball as well. And, he got tickets to his first Aggie men's basketball game for Christmas. So, they went to that in January. He woke up every single day wanting to immediately check scores on my phone. It became our habit to tell him once he had eaten, dressed, brushed teeth, etc. for school, he could check scores. This certainly sped him up! He drew so many mascots and wrote so many lists of teams that I bet we had 150 papers sitting in a pile of his drawings and lists. He could not get enough. We made brackets and cut out pictures of mascots. I mean - it just never ended. During football season and beyond, he also became our cap kid and wanted to wear caps all the time and would pick some random teams whose caps he wanted because he loved them - like the Nevada Wolfpack cap he got for Christmas! Our neighbor, Luc, also in 1st grade also loves sports and so he and Atticus would talk about this stuff forever while they played their sports outside. It was just a great season of one of Atticus's passions! I honestly hope it continues every football season!
Oh and he could not get enough of playing sports. He wanted to throw the football or baseball every single day! He got better and better at it!
For Christmas, we gave him a map of the U.S. with all of the college teams and mascots on it! And a quick video:
https://youtu.be/qwFog9bVZ9Q
And, Vic and Atticus went to the LSU vs. Aggie Men's basketball game in January!
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