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What a difference a week makes.
Last week at soccer, winter coats and freezing. This week, 75° and sweating. I’ll take it.
How Katie drinks from her water bottle. 🙂
Owen’s first soccer game at the park district!
The wintery weather didn’t make for a very nice day (we were in winter coats, hats, and gloves) but everyone was excited!
Katie kept busy waiting for the game to start.
Unfortunately, I had a bit of a bad start as I decided to take a shortcut across a little grassy area to go look at a park map…and I ended up in inches deep swampy muck. I bet you can imagine how wonderful that felt in 35 weather not 15 minutes into our 1.5 hour stay.
Much to our surprise (honestly), Owen scored TWO goals!! Part of it was due to him getting better…but (honestly) part of it was due to the other team not being quite as good. But it was super exciting—and they ended up winning (I think) 4-1!
Owen really needs a haircut but he has so far refused.
Family Day at Katie’s soccer class
Her last class was tonight and they invited family down to play against them and have fun.
She was excited about her team getting a goal!
Getting her participation medal! (I dislike the practice of handing out medals to everyone but she loved it.)
Katie’s soccer camp
She thinks she wants to play soccer again but she really has no idea what she’s doing. (She did play one season but never really had any good instruction.) So we enrolled her in a five-week beginning level class at the rec center and we’ll see how it goes.
This is how she played goalie—she had NO idea. She’d just watch the ball roll by into the goal.
Soccer season is done!
Pizza and cupcakes after the game!
It’s very hard to hear through the wind, but the gist was the coach said Owen had the most improved footwork of any player on the team! He actually told us before that Owen was the most improved player—he actually listens and pays attention!
Night soccer!
Tonight was a makeup game instead of practice.
Soccer game day!
Today was photo day! I honestly didn’t want to pay the outrageous prices for photos, so I planned to sneak some of Owen and his team and Tom snagged one of Katie’s session (it was at 8am and me and Owen didn’t make it for that). Also, I knew Katie would have half her team missing (due to pics being an hour before the game) and we never really got to know any of the kids (like we did with T-ball and baseball) outside the two kids we already knew.
Dancing across the field…
It really wasn’t until after the game when I was looking at all the pics I took that I realized Owen was really handling the ball well. He has improved SO much it’s unbelievable!
Cold and windy soccer morning
This morning was a horrible morning weather-wise for soccer—it looked gorgeous but the wind was gusting at probably 20-30mph and with temps in the high 40s/low 50s it was cold. I felt so bad for all the kids…but they didn’t really seem to be bothered too much by it. However, I had on a 32° undershirt, a heavy sweatshirt, my winter coat, gloves, and was covered in TWO blankets…and was still freezing. It was even so cold my phone’s battery died so I only got a few pics.
Elsa is playing soccer this chilly morning.
Soccer Sibs
The kids’ skills at Owen’s soccer practice
Tom sent me these since I couldn’t be there. It’s very odd being on this side of things.
Showing off her hopscotch skills (I asked Tom where she learned that and she said ballet):
Owen’s skills:
Soccer moms in LuLaRoe!
One of my good friends, Linda, and I wearing our LuLaRoe leggings to soccer!
Soccer Games Saturday
Today was Katie’s first game and she was SUPER excited…new jersey, new shorts, new shoes, new shin guards, and new headband!! Doesn’t she look the part?!
Katie’s first soccer practice!
She was SOOOO excited to be going to soccer! Earlier in the day when I told her to go put on her soccer clothes, I just meant the clothes she would be wearing to practice (which she knew was her mermaid shirt and her black shorts) but she came down FULLY dressed, complete with socks and shin guards! 🙂
I remembered my good camera for soccer today!
He’s having a blast and getting better every game! Also, my mommy guilt got the better of me and Katie starts soccer practice next week…
This is how I like to do soccer practice.
On the sidelines, relaxing, and chatting with a friend.
Our soccer star!
Owen’s first game was today! It was hot as blazes but they all worked hard and did awesome! Since the teams are so big, they split them so two games are going on at a time. Owen’s team technically tied, but they don’t officially keep score. We are so proud of him!!
Katie at soccer practice
This is a lot of what she does while Owen practices (and the other team doesn’t need their goal):
He looks like a soccer player!
It was crazy insane hot tonight so practice didn’t last very long.
Then little sister wanted a picture, too. 🙂
As a sidenote, we still don’t have a coach and it’s quite the cluster. It’s clear no one at the soccer association really has any idea what’s going on and that makes it very frustrating as a parent. This came in an email after practices:
My reaction was SERIOUSLY? It is OUR job to find a coach? WHAT?! I posted as much on Facebook, lamenting that this can’t be typical…and unfortunately was quickly told by many that yes, it’s very common—lots of parents with zero soccer knowledge end up coaching soccer. Ay yi yi. So stay tuned…there’s stuff in the works.
Owen’s first ever soccer practice!
I thought I’d take a lot more pictures but it didn’t turn out that way! Katie enjoyed running around playing with Owen and the other kids. We probably should have put her in soccer, too, but honestly, I’m just not that ready to commit to that many hours of sports—their practices are at different times, so I’d (we’d) be at the fields for three hours on Wednesday (her from 5:30-6:45 and him from 7:00-8:15), plus another 1:15 for him Friday, and then two games each Saturday from 9-11:30. Yuck. I know those days are coming…but I am just not sure I’m ready yet.
First we were on the wrong practice field—they have like 14 teams practicing at once and we didn’t realize there were two teams named Revolution (because the whiteboard didn’t differentiate them!) so we went from a field with great sideline seats to a half field with crappy viewing…and then our coach didn’t show up (and hadn’t emailed ANYONE to let them know) so there was a scramble to get a substitute coach so any real practice started about a half hour late…and I didn’t feel like hovering while he practiced (though, honestly, the first practice would have been the one to do it at). So I sat on the sidelines and this was the craziness.
But he loved it, had a great time, and didn’t actually do that bad!