I think the indoctrination is progressing quite nicely...

Found this on the front of the refrigerator on Saturday, penned by my oldest child.

“The Longhorn Song”

(little hand drawn musical notes accompanied the entire thing ;)

“We will, we will, rock you down,
Shake you up.
Like a volcano about to erupt.
Watch out, world,
Here we come.
Texas Longhorns, number one!”

(She learned this at summer camp, with the name of their camp group substituted for Longhorns, of course.)

But wait… there’s more, and it is all pure ‘Josie original’.

“We love Longhorns, yes we do!
We love you.
Looking at Aggies makes me boo!

Tech will try to kick us in the shin.
But we will always win!

Texas won the football cup (?), we are proud!
It makes the other teams cry out loud.

That’s the end.
Texas will win again!”

Awwww…. dangit. That made me tear up just a little.

Because while she may not get the ‘technicalities’ of football, (i.e. that a ‘cup’ in football has an entirely different meaning), and she doesn't like to actually watch the games with us (she did once ask us when the Longhorns would be playing the Tennessee Titans. Doh!)… this kid has some spirit.

All that singing of ‘The Eyes of Texas’ when she was in her crib has paid off. *sniff