Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts

Friday, April 12, 2013

Evan's 1st Soccer Game

Evan had his first soccer game last weekend. Well, let me rephrase, he had his first TWO soccer GAMES last weekend. Yes, for his first time out playing a team sport at three years old, he had a double header with an hour in between. Thank goodness for nice weather. Ev has continued to surprise me every time he gets out there and plays. He as come such a long way since that first practice. He went from crying in the car to playing nearly the entire game. He did fantastic (I'm not talking soccer sills, but attitude). I could care less about him being good (although that's a bonus), I am just thrilled with how this is teaching him not to give up. As I mentioned before, Evan does not like to fail. So this is really great for him and for me. I get to sit back and watch someone else help him through the internal struggle he's fighting. Tomorrow is an EARLY game with pictures before and it's going to be FREEZING, so we shall see how that goes. Fingers crossed that it's quick and fun. 
Check him out! So handsome.

Warming up 

Seriously, look he's really in there going for it!

Ok, this is too hilarious not to share/post. My best friend, Carrie's daughters are playing on Ev's team as well. Emerson and Luke go to preschool together and kind of really LOVE each other. No joke. Emerson is always looking for Luke and Luke is always watching for Emerson. It was so bad that Luke ran on the field during the first game and the whistles were blown and the game was stopped because he was out there to see her. Oh. My. Word. 


This is adorable. At the end of the game all of the parents line up so that the kids can run through. Love that.
Awesome sportsmanship. That's our #12. (Daddy's old number, of course)

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Soccer

We signed Evan up for soccer . . . oh boy. He has been so excited to start. We bought all the gear, tried it all on and even took the ball to the park to practice kicking. All was great . . . until... the practice actually started. You see, Evan has this one little personality flaw. He does not like to fail. He would rather quit than do something wrong. When we got to practice he ran around kicking the ball in the goal with all the other kids and it was going ok. However, when everything actually got started he noticed that some of the other kids (older and have played before) were a little better than him. That was it. Shut down. Completely. Whined/cried and eventually sat in the car with Justin and Kate (it was freezing out). We would have left, but Luke started practicing with them for fun and was having a blast, so we stayed the whole practice. Luke begged to play the entire car ride home. He chose t-ball, so maybe next year he can play if that's what he decides. Evan claims that he still wants to play, so hopefully week 2 will go better. At least he looked cute.