Soccer Season has ARRIVED!

We are now underway with soccer season in our house--both for Alex and for Marlon! Alex started playing her first official season of soccer a few weeks ago--it's been pretty funny to watch! Very similar to my nephew Nolan's first experience, it was funny to see how little Alex actually understood about how the game of soccer worked. She initially got all mopey because a bigger boy took the ball away from her. After her first practice I explained how soccer actually works, and she was much more aggressive the next time she went! She's one of the shortest ones on her team (of course!) since it's made up of 4 and 5 year olds, so there are some boys that are at least a year older and a good head taller than her, so I'm proud of her for not backing down to them once she got the hang of the game a bit more. Watching the practices has been interesting--I give credit to the coaches who try to keep the interest of 10 4-5 year olds for an hour. At any given moment there were probably no more than 5 or 6 kids actually participating--the rest were sitting in the grass, getting a drink, going to the bathroom, or just hanging with their parents. Kellan has had a great time at the practices too--he could probably hold his own out there dribbling around with the bigger kids and kicking the ball in the goal! He truly is a natural (left-footed) soccer player!

Marlon's soccer season began this past weekend, and we had a great time at the games with my parents, Marlon's dad, and a bunch of our neighbors in attendance! More on that to follow in my next post!