football, etc...

We are Denver Broncos fans in this house and the kids really get into it.  Every time football is on tv they ask if the Broncos are winning.  During the Broncos first playoff game against the Steelers, Flora declared that she would hold up her Bronco bow (a blue and orange bow courtesy of Aunt Mel) every time the Broncos scored a point.  And she did.  With every score, Flora would solemnly raise her Bronco high -- kind of Statue of Liberty style -- while the rest of us danced and cheered.  When the Broncos pulled off the overtime win the Borkert crowd went wild!  We all did our Bronco dance and Timber was dancing longer than any of us!  He obviously didn't know what prompted the spontaneous dance party but he wasn't going to let that stop him from boogie-ing!

Unfortunately, the kids had to go to bed early in the Broncos/Patriots game last night.  When I went in later to check on them, Flora asked, "Did the Broncos win yet?"  Sadly, I had to inform her that the Broncos were not going to win this game.  "Bummer," she said.  Yeah.....I agree.  Today we are watching the Houston/Baltimore game.  When I turned on the tv, Flora asked if it was the Broncos.  I told her no and then informed her that it was the Texans and the Ravens.  She gasped, put her hands to her cheeks in excitement, and said, "Mommy!  I think I have a Texas swimsuit for this game!!"  Lo and behold, she did!  One of her Barbies has a University of Texas cheerleading outfit.  Where did THAT come from???  We'll have to trash that when she's not looking.

Other stories:

**I told the kids they couldn't play outside on a really cold day.  Determined to prove that she could dress appropriately for a chilly day outside, Flora informed me that she was going to put on "one thousand clothes and two panties."  She didn't make it to "a thousand clothes" but she did manage to squeeze into twelve shirts!

**Our church recently celebrated it's 25th birthday.  I told the kids that we were going to have a birthday party for the church and Flora said she was going to make a present for the church.  She was gone for a minute and then came back to show me the imaginary present she had made.  "It's a new stem!" she said.  "A new stem with colors and lights that flash and it spins around!"  Haha....awesome.  I would love to see our church steeple replaced with her colorful, flashing, spinning "stem."