Progress.

Wow. When they say "take it in baby steps" they really mean it. Tanner is making progress at football practice, but it is definately in baby steps. Last Thursday he was excited to go, assured me that he was going to practice, put on his flags when we got there and as soon as the coached started giving instructions that was the end. (sigh)

Here he is standing close to the team, with his flags on, but still refusing to participate.

Yesterday he put his flags on and actually participated in some of the drills. He had fun lining up on the offensive line and pushing CJ back (that's Tanner on the end in the grey)...

but when they switched to other drills Tanner again refused to participate. They did one drill where they had the kids one-on-one and one was running the football and the other one tried to pull his flags. On the way home I told Tanner how proud of him I was that he played and how good he did. When I asked him why he stopped he said, "I don't want to pull anybody's tags and I don't want them to pull mine." Oh. Well now, that is the whole point of this game isn't it? We'll keep being patient and hoping for more baby steps....The first game is this saturday!