Well, we had our first soccer game yesterday. We were at the fields early because near the fields are some trails where Joseph went for a run while I took the boys for a good power walk. The whole morning we talked about our first soccer game and Caleb seemed really excited until it was time to start warming up. Then he decided that he didn't want to play & wanted to go home. Caleb played soccer last year in Maryland, but it was a non-competitive league, that met once a week, where they basically learned a few skills and would scrimmage against each other for the last 15 min. of practice. This year we have practice & a game once a week. Caleb really wanted to play, but never does well with new activities at first. The last quarter of the game he really got into it and started having fun. Everytime he would do something good -like run down the field- he would stop and look for us to give us the "thumbs up." It was so cute how he did that, but it was also usually right in the middle of the game. I think this week we will have to work on helping him keep his eye on the ball.
Side note - our team the "Kickers" lost badly. It was a shut out. We knew it was going to be bad when the game first started and they put the ball into play. Our team stood there frozen while the other team kicked the ball right past them and into the goal. Our team never moved a muscle... or knew what happened.
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