I-L-L.... I-N-I!!! and a broken camera

Go Illini!

Leif, Zoe, & I went to the homecoming football game yesterday because Leif was able to get some discounted tix from a classmate.

Zoe ate a TON of pizza and went up and down the stairs a bunch (which I'm sure didn't please the other fans... I tried to only let her do that between plays), and she loved hearing/watching the alumni band and the marching illini. In fact, after they would play, she would beg "More! More!". Too bad we couldn't put in a request ;-)

Zoe got lots of compliments on her orange "I might be small, but I'm a big CHIEF fan" t-shirt (THANKS TIM, LYNNETTE, JORDAN, AND JADE!).

We got to see some fireworks when the team scored, and OH YEAH- during pre-game there was a fly-by of 2 fighter jets... HOLY SONIC BOOM, BATMAN it was loud and unexpected and rather scary. After my heart stopped for a moment as I was thinking the world was ending, I was able to jump up and down and act excited so that Zoe (who was in my arms) wouldn't be frightened. I think she was just trying to figure out what the heck happened, because by the time we heard it, the planes were pretty much gone.

Well Zoe didn't last through halftime- I felt her head slump down partway through the MI performance. So we left and walked the mile-or-so back to our car (parking is nuts on gameday) with Zoe snug-as-a-bug in the warm-fuzzy, red blankie Aunt Meghan made for her :) She took a LONG LONG nap at home, too so I guess she enjoyed all the new sights and sounds at the game!

Today we get to go to the mens' basketball scrimmage (with the tix I won on the radio), so I suppose we'll have fun there too. Oh and maybe we'll get to see Michael Jordan's son play for the Illini! Oh, what gigantic shoes to fill when you're the kid of a superstar like that....

OH YEAH- I ruined our small, highly-portable digital camera at the marching band comp last weekend :( I accidentally spilled Mountain Dew all over it. Darn lid wasn't screwed on all the way... so we have a lot fewer pics of Zoe right now, which is why these posts have been sort of boring in that way. We pulled out our fancy digital camera, and snapped some cute pics of Zoe in her Halloween costume this morning.... she INSISTED on wearing it!!!

MORE LATER!!!!!!!!!

Bye :)