Each year, all the members of TADA get to try to be part of TADA games, where 200 kids are put 25 kids each into 8 teams, which then compete in TADA games. This is a two week mini-Olympics type competition, which culminates on the last night into the TADA games finale. Each team is led by a male and female 9 grade "TADA team captain", who choose via a draft, the members of their team. This year, Timmy and another girl, Bridget, were the team captains of the Texas Rangers team. Matthew was one of the 25 members of the team. And last night, was the Finale.
At the Finale, the teams first put on a Song and then a Cheer. They are both basically the same thing....the teams put on dances with new lyrics to songs about how they don't want to do drugs and alcohol, because they are doing TADA instead. Honestly, it is the kind of thing that warms any parent's heart. This shows a bunch of 7th through 9th graders doing the kinds of things parents want them to do. Have fun without getting drunk or high. At Abington, it is a big deal, and it is a big deal to be in TADA games, and it is a big deal to be a captain, and it is a big deal to "win" TADA games.
Timmy's team's first Song was to "Uptown Funk," and it was a show stopper. But, I had had these 25 kids at my house numerous times over the last two weeks, and I had watched them perform this dance and song 20 times (and bought them lots of pizza!!), so I had seen it a lot, but I still think they were fantastic. Then, all the teams perform the Cheer. This time, they did it to "That's what I Like about You", with lyrics like "That's why we like TADA."
At the end, they go around and slam whip cream pies in the faces of the non-winners, and you know your team is out when both captains get "pied." Timmy got pied really quickly, but Bridget never got pied. Then the last two non-pied captains go up, and one person gets pied, and the winning team is the one in which one of the captains never got pied.
Long explanation, but.....Timmy's team won!!! It was amazing!! I was so excited. These are the photos....just so happy to see my sons so happy. It was fantastic!!
This is the group hug sing a long at the end of all the Songs and Cheers, where they all sing about how great it is to have a drug-free life....kind of the thing parents like to see kids do!
This is about 30 seconds after they got the cup....and Timmy is still dripping from the whipped cream pie he had just gotten. I love that Lily got her face in all these photos....just like something her mother would do!!
These were mostly Timmy's 9th grade friends on his team--Jordan, Timmy, Shane, Sean, Jack (who goes to another school, but came to support Timmy and Shane), and in the front, Matthew, Joey (who wasn't on the Texas team, but we wish he was!), and Kieran on the floor:
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