First Soccer Games!

Nick and Julianna had their first week of soccer!


On Saturday we had the games. Nick's team ("Optimus Prime" - a Transformer) played first. Eric is the referee for Nick's team, and he did a great job! I really enjoyed watching him running around and managing the game.

Nick was timid about playing, especially at first. He stayed on the outskirts of the mob of boys around the ball - I was impressed, though, that he kept up with the mob and ran around the field so that he was with the action, just sort of on the edge of it! He did get his foot on the ball a few times!


He said it was fun and he is excited about playing again next week!


Julianna's game was a little later that day. Her team, the "Purple Pixie Fish," played the "Red Hot Chili Peppers." Two of her friends from Kindergarten were on the Chili Peppers team. This game was played on a much larger field than Nick's! They sure had to run a lot! Julianna's face was bright red and covered with beads of sweat from all the running! She was so tired. She stayed in the whole game, though, and played more than one position. She also got her feet on the ball a few times, and is excited about the season! I think she is going to improve a lot during the next couple of months. It will be neat to see.

As for Katie, she decided she wanted to play volleyball again, so I signed her up and that will start in a couple of weeks. She also wanted to find a tap class, so she tried one Saturday morning (before all of the soccer) at one of our former dance studios (the first one). It's hard to find tap classes around here, since many studios don't teach it at all and others only teach it in combination classes. Then they go over-time in ballet and squeeze in five minutes of tap at the end of class - very frustrating. Our first dance studio does have separate ballet and tap classes starting at age 6 1/2. Katie did 45 minutes of tap, and it's a pretty challenging class for her, with a strict teacher. She wants to go back again, so we'll be seeing how that goes! I think she's got too many activities already, so I'm not signing her up for ballet at this time.