More soccer

We started our second session of indoor soccer today. The kids really do enjoy it. I am so glad we started bringing them to Afrims. And it will really help Justin with his skills. It also helps Sarah. Here she is middle of the road and that will help.

Today's tidbits....

Currently the kids are in the basement and Sarah is having a baby. Yup. That's right. Justin told Sarah to "put Chrishie under your tushie and scream while you push her out of your tush." Not your everyday play, but that is today's game.


Earlier today Sarah was sad and wanted to write a story about princesses "but I don't know what happens after they get married." lol I told her that sometimes they have babies. So her princess had a baby. Then "then what happens?" My answer " well, maybe they bring the kids on vacation." So the princess went with her prince and her babies to Maine and Mystic. What a lovely story.


At school today Justin got to go on the Limo Lunch to McDonalds. He had a ton of fun telling me all about it. But, at the end I was informed that he prefers to never go again b/c he missed recess. lmao


Today at the end of music, Ms Vici said "Wow, I can tell Sarah is quite the soccer player." They were playing with balls and since there are only 4 kids in the class they really got to move around. She told me all about how Sarah spent the whole time doing her soccer moves and would stop and do fancy moves with the ball. That's my girl! She does love her soccer. And she is pretty good at it for a 4 yr old. Too bad she is still getting yelled at by Ms Anne at Gymnastics. It stinks, but Ms Anne is just mean to her b/c she can't get the moves.


Yesterday when I picked Sarah up from school, Ms Reena told me that Sarah was upset b/c she couldn't find her coat. Ends up she was looking for one of her pink coats, instead of the purple coat she had worn that day. Ms Reena asked if it was new. Well, yes, it is the heavy winter one and with the warm weather it was only the 3rd time she had worn it. Anyway....I asked Sarah about it last night. I told her that I need to show her which coat she's wearing when she goes to school so that doesn't happen again. She looked so sad. "Mommy, it was so sad. I kept looking at everyone's pink coats and I couldn't find mine." What can I say - the girl loves her pink! Just so happens I ordered her a coat off of ebay that is a beautiful pink winter coat. How it fits and makes her happy. Her purple one is way too small and won't be fitting much longer anway.

More soccer

So our soccer season ends next weekend. That's good since it is getting to be way too cold for outdoor soccer. But bad, cause the kids have been liking it a lot. I ended up getting them into Afrim's into the Soccer Tots program on Saturdays. When we started soccer practice, Sarah's coach assumed Sarah had been playing and asked me where she played. "Ummm...no where." When he called to tell me that the games were cancelled yesterday (lots of RAIN) he asked me what I was going to do for Sarah once the season ended. He really thought she should continue. It was good to hear. She's good, she likes it. Why not? I called the place yesterday and the guy there actually had us come down yesterday since our games were rained out. The kids loved it. It is all fun, skills building. Hopefully it will help with Justin's skills and coordination and with Sarah's skills. We'll see how it goes.

Justin - soccer time!

Some cute Justin shots. He is liking soccer a lot this year. But he still doesn't really pay too much attention. He's cute to watch though!

First he had to watch Sarah's game:








Then he got to play:

Which means a lot of talking to Chloe



And a whole lot of head tilting

Go Sarah!

She had 4 goals today!

She pretty much scores a goal every goal, sometimes today. But she did great today. And it was special since she finally was playing at a different time than Justin so Mick finally got to watch Sarah play. So fun!

She scored 3 times for her team. And she played 1 quarter for the other team and scored for them 1 time. She would had scored twice for them, but one of her "teammates" blocked her goal right at the goal b/c he didn't know she was his teammate. lol











And how does one unwind after a good game? Well, with an organic lollipop and a lovey, of course!



Some cute pictures of Sarah during Justin's game:

Soccer Time!

Today the kids had their first games of the season. They played at the same time (as they will almost every time), 4 fields apart, so Mick and I split time b/w watching both kids.

Justin was much more into it this year. He paid attention and wasn't afraid to get into the mix. And he had fun.















And Sarah. Well, let's just Sarah that Sarah really likes going after the ball. She was in the middle of the action constantly. She was at the bottom of a pile of player several times. Ahe would steal the ball and just go with it even when the game was not happening. She loved it. But, she was very sad towards the end and told me "I can't always steal the ball. I keep trying, but it doesn't always work." Poor kid is so competitive. Hopefully this helps to stop some of that cause it is very annoying.











And yes, that is her with her arm around that boy trying to hold him back. So stinkin funny. I love that her soccer personality is so opposite from her normal personality with a bunch of kids. Hilarious!

A new soccer season...

And then there were 2 playing soccer!

Justin was excited to play again, but definitely not as excited as Sarah. She was so happy to finally get to play soccer. She loved practice and I loved how cute she looked!
And it was just so fun to see Sarah so happy and so confident. She wasn't one bit timid or scared. She was just so much in her element. And she was good. It was fun to watch.

Justin's soccer advice for Sarah

"Sarah, when you play soccer this summer, you need to pass the ball to your teammates. And if you lose, don't worry. I lost every game last year except for one. It's ok."

Oh, the Irony!

We were in the van today and we passed the Middletown Rd soccer fields. Sarah yells out "See you in the summer for soccer, soccer field!"

And the kids start talking about soccer. I asked Sarah if she still wanted to play this summer. Yes. So Justin starts telling her about soccer. Sarah asks "I will pass the ball to the people in the same shirts, right?" Yes.

The conversation continues and then Justin warns her:
"But Sarah, when you play soccer you will get real pooped!"

OMG! I nearly peed my pants!

Me: So, she'll get real tired, huh?
Justin: Yes. The real tired kind of pooped.

Me thinking: Yup. Well, she got pooped each soccer practice and game last year anyway. So what's new? Let's just hope she doesn't actually poop her pants again like last season!

Soccer fun!

Justin actually played and cared a lot more on Saturday. It was the first game he actually got to kick the ball several times. Go Justin!

The difference?
I finally was really nice weather.
They played 4 on 4 and still good plenty of rest time.
4 on 4 has a lot less people going after the ball and thus less to avoid.
The other team wasn't great and that made it much easier for our team in general.

It was great!

When am I going to score a goal Mommy?

Well, Justin, unfortunately, you might do better if you stop chewing on your pant strings:

One week later...

Things are much calmer for me now.

Justin has one week of Kindergarten behind him and I think he'll be fine. He seems happy to go to school and happy when he gets home. I am so relieved that he likes it. But he is tired. And it's getting worse each day. When he's upset it is so much more intensified than usual. It is not all fun. We let him skip soccer today b/c he told us he was too tired. And he is. I am not sure what we'll do about gymnastics. We'll have to see how that goes. For now, we only have 1 soccer game each of the next 2 weekends, so that will help. Not sure how long he'll last. I can't force the extra stuff. School has to come first.

I am still so happy about finding Sarah a school. I still cannot believe it. It is totally a blessing from God cause I had no right finding her a spot there the day before school started. Just crazy. And so meant to be. I hope she continues to like it. I am so happy for her. She has never been able to have friends her age, other than small playgroups here and there. I am so happy that she will have little girls to play with. I know she'll have fun. And she seems totally fine with her teacher, Ms Robin.

I just cannot believe how much has changed in one week!

No soccer for today

We never made it to soccer today. We had been debating going since Justin was way too tired to even play most of yesterday's game. So we told him today about 15 minutes before it was time to leave. He started crying. "No. I don't want to play soccer on back to back days. They will drain me of my energy to much." Ok. I can't argue with that. Poor kid. This full day school thing will take some time to get used to.

Soccer!

Opening day.

Justin loved the parade, as small as it was. He spent the whole time covering his ears and yelling "I love fire trucks!"



Then the game..
Justin is completely non-competitive and really can't get into it but loved running around.





Then he got tired and wanted out. He didn't even want to go back in until I finally told him it was the last few minutes of the game. Poor kid was exhausted!