Battle Wounds

As I have mentioned...Trace is playing football this year. I was not crazy about the idea....I love football, but he is so small!! He is the smallest kid on the team, weighing in at 65 lbs. The first few weeks he took a beating....he even said several times he wanted to quit. We have a rule at our house.....there is NO quitting something after you have started....but I wanted to let him quit. Dustin said NO WAY. So he stuck it out and he is now enjoying it. He has started to really enjoy punting and doing kick-off's....he is the back up kicker.....he has even asked to go to practice early so he can get some extra kicking practice before everyone else gets there. This makes me happy b/c a week ago I would cry after I dropped him off b/c he was crying so hard. I felt horrible, like I was sending him into a battle zone and he didn't even stand a chance. He ended up with some nasty bruises....I took these pics after 5 days...and they still look horrible.

This is his arm...it has bruises all over it, but this was the worst

And this is his neck...you can't see it really well...but it was black and blue

These are the worst bruises he has had so far....but the season has just started!!