Today was Johnny's first cross country race!! It was a sight to see, over 100 boys and then 50 or so girls ranging from kindergarten to 6th grade all running at the same time. We got to the park about an hour before the race because we had to sign in, and the kids needed to warm up. When we got there Johnny was very excited because their St. Charles tee shirts had come in so he got to wear his new shirt for the race. After the kids warmed up they all hung around until the races started. First the boys were called down and then there was a swarm of little boys running down a hill. They had to sit down to get instructions and then they were all lined up. The gun went off....and there they went. Johnny did really well for it being his first race. He took off running but after a while we could see him walking a little bit. They ran a 0.6 mile course (which there is no way I could run by the way) and you could tell he was very tired at the end, when he came around the last turn he saw some of the girls from St. Charles and what did he do....but sit down on the ground with them!! We were all yelling that he had to get up and finish and he did!! I was very proud that he did not give up. All of the kids got ribbons and then they had a drawing for some prizes and amazingly enough Johnny's name was drawn!! He picked a ball, no surprise there. Allie was amazed by the entire thing, she was not too sure what in the world was going on.
Here she is very interested in the camera case...I could not get her to look at me but she looked really cute with her little pig-tails!
Here is Johnny in his shirt before the race......doesn't he look cute;)
Here is the mass of little boys at the starting line...
Here they are all running.....Johnny is right in the middle of the picture
