Soccer

This year the girls decided they wanted to do soccer.  I thought why not, that will be fun.  Boy was I in for a surprise; soccer is a lot of work!  They had fun and it was definitely worth it, but wow, it is time consuming.  It ended just in time.  The weather started to get cold and wet and I am glad to say we will be staying inside and lounging around for a few Saturday mornings!

 

Tess really surprised us with her athletic talent.  She soared at soccer and so did her self-esteem.  At first I just signed her up because Alexa wanted to play.  Tess wants to do soccer each year and I will support her on this one.  She made so many great friends (as did I) and got tome exercise in.  Tess' team name was the Red Leopards.  They were a great team and won most of the games, but who is keeping score?  At this age they play 5 on 5 and rotate through being the goalie, defense and offense.  Tess was good at all but definitely best at defense.  She took it so seriously when she was told not to let the ball get close to her team’s goal.  I think her favorite thing was being the goalie.  Tess did make one goal this year and was SO excited when she did.  She made many attempts at each game but the goalies always seemed to block her.  Toward the end of the season she realized she could trick the goalie and made a goal!

Alexa surprised us with soccer as well.  Many of you know Lexi is always moving, a fast runner, and very competitive.  So clearly she would love soccer and be a natural right?  Wrong, she did not get into soccer the way we all thought she would.  Lexi was on a team called the Blue Thunder.  They were an awesome (as awesome as 3-4 years old go) team.  There were only two girls on her team and many very athletic boys.  The boys were incredible and each got about 5 goals each game.  Lexi was able to make 3 goals for her team and one for the opposite team!  Lexi cracks me up, I told her to get the ball and kick it to the goal and her response was "mom, the boys will get the ball for me" She would wait patiently for her teammates to pass the ball to her, which rarely happened.  On her first game she was confused because I was telling her to take the ball from a child; she quickly corrected me that she is not supposed to take things from others, “that’s rude!”  She had a lot of fun and will probably want to try again next year...maybe a year older and she will get into soccer.