Alex soccer

Alex has been having an absolute blast on his soccer team this year.  This is the 3rd year he’s been on the same team, with the same excellent coach, with a handful of them returning for the 3rd year as well.  This year they have 4 kids on the field instead of just 3, with the additional player playing “sweeper-keeper” (aka goalie).  Alex loves getting physical, has amazingly good foot skills, and the goalie is a fun position for the kids to all try out.  I have a lot of sweeper-keeper pictures of him because he isn’t moving so fast that I can actually capture him! 

 

He is so fun to watch out there on the playing field.  He’s having fun and asking his coach when he can go back in.  They play hard!  When the soccer season starts in late August and early September – there have been some game days that have been ~88 degrees when they play.  Hot!  We haven’t hit the rainy weather yet, but we know it’s coming. 

 

 

How Boys U8 “decompress” after games (dog-pile!).  Of course, Alex is right in the middle of it all. 

 

 

 

 

After a really hot game – he likes to douse his head with water and make a mohawk. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yes she did…

 

 

 

As in, cut her own hair…

 

It was a Friday night and I was going to go workout – Sara was happily playing downstairs after work (Alex and Lance were at soccer practice).  I was gone for about 2 minutes and came downstairs to a pile of hair and some kid scissors gone wrong.  OH MY… OH MY…, I thought!  It could be so much worse. 

 

She actually did quite a nice job, going from a bob to a “tapered” bob.  When asked why she did it – she simply said she didn’t want to chew on her hair anymore (causing tangles and many requests to stop it).  She simply solved her problem. 

 

Like any self respecting photographer – I asked her to take the pile – o - hair and the scissors to better light to take a picture! 

 

This was truly a first for me! 

 

 

 

 

 

We straightened it out a bit with a stylist next morning she is amazingly beautiful and  totally cute 4 year old! 

 

 

 

 

Soccer Season has started for Sara

 

 

 

We have another season of fall soccer upon us and this is Sara’s 2nd year playing.  She’s one of the “big” kids on the 3 & 4 year old team with “experience”.  She is loving it so far and is really fun to watch.  But, I don’t get to just watch her – as I’m the coach again this year.  I have ten 3 & 4 year olds on the Rattlesnakes (I didn’t choose it!) team.  I also have a wonderful assistant coach from Argentina who is so great to c0-coach with! 

 

Sara loves wearing soccer cleats and loves they have a little pink outline on the symbol.  She seems to officially have switched from her favorite color being green to being pink & purple, sniff sniff! 

 

It’s co-ed this year, but next year is all girls.  I’m so excited about this.  Boys and girls are just different.  When Alex was playing with girls, I thought it was “good” for him to learn to play with girls on his team.  Now that I have a girl – I want an all girls team.  I don’t want those boys to run her over, push her down (even though they are on the same team!) and hog the ball.  For now, it’s still good for Sara to play with a co-ed team.  She’s used to boys because of her big brother, I guess.  Next year… next year. 

 

What else can I say – she runs after the ball, kicks the ball, and has made a goal!