Tah's Mascots

on the weekend the two older boys got asked if they wanted to be waratah player mascots.

this means they got to run on to the field with a waratah player.

jevan and i thought this was such an awesome thing to be asked.

we asked the boys if they wanted to do it.

makai could hardly hold his excitement in.

braxton was like argh, if you want me to - oh look i found my superman.

their responses pretty much summed up how they entered the field that night.

makai had a job to do and he did that job with preciseness.

his face was set to mission mode and he delivered his player to the field without a hiccup.

he didn't even stop to say goodbye to the player.

he let his hand go and ran to the other side because that's where was told to

and that's where his mission ended.

braxton came almost skipping out of the tunnel,

i think his player was holding his hand telling him where to go.

as braxton ran past the fireworks set up they went off.

the boy literally stopped running to watch the fireworks go off

because of this he held up the line running to the other side.

i was laughing so so hard.

i could see braxton face of excitement over the fireworks.

once we got them back,

makai was so excited that he got to hold a real life rugby players hand.

braxton was so excited that he got to be right near fireworks.

"mum do you know that fireworks have actual fire in them and that they are hot."

i love love love how different my boys are.

jevan and i were laughing while they were waiting in the tunnel.

we could imagine makai not making any discussion with his player because makai had been asked to do something and nothing was going to distract him from that.

braxton would have been talking his players head off asking the most random questions like

"why do you play for the waratahs? why is your shirt blue but your flower is red? why do bees have stingers on the end?"

this has been a bucket list item ticked for these two boys.

unfortunately we were sitting way too far away for photos, 

we did video for it to show them when they are older.

but thankfully new rugby put these up on their website.

(note makai's determination plastered his face)

(see that little person in the white shirt behind the brown legs,

with the waratah's player looking down

that's bracky probably asking his one millionth question for the night.)