Season ticket holders (and some Lydia updates)

Nine years later, we are season ticket holders for Hawkeye football once again! (Actually, it's only been eight years because we bought them our first year in Colorado, but it's been nine since we were season ticket holders and Iowa City residents.) This time of year has been yet another reminder of how excited we are to be back in Iowa City. We took Jack to his first game when the Hawkeyes played Ball State for the second game of the season. It was not looking like a very good first game, but thankfully the Hawkeyes won with a big comeback. We got to Kinnick pretty early and watched both teams walk into the stadium. Then we caught the drumline doing its pregame performance, and Jack asked if he could meet one of the drummers. He was in awe! We then watched the full band do its pregame rehearsal in the rec building and finished our pregame tour with a stop in the pressbox to visit Grandpa Steve!

And just because most of our posts seem to focus on Jack, here are a couple pictures of Lydia. She is starting to say more words lately. She clearly says Dada, Mama, and Jack, and has quite a few others that we're able to interpret. She knows most of her animal sounds and lots of signs and movements to songs. She loves to sing songs and read books! It seems like she enjoys books more than Jack did at this age, in that she'll sit for a long time by herself just going through her books. I don't remember Jack ever doing that, so it's fun to see that difference. I took her to storytime at the library this week, and she was in heaven! Now that she's getting older, we're having fun doing special things that are centered around her too. We know too well how quickly her brother has grown up, and we're trying to soak her up as much we can before she grows up too!