Game On!

Soccer season is officially underway. Savannah and her team, the Hot Shots, had their first game this weekend. Let me start off by saying that 3 and 4 year olds playing soccer is quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever watched. I laughed so hard the entire game. Savannah did surprisingly well. When I say well, I don't mean she scored a goal or dribbled a ball or anything crazy like that. I mean that she kept up with the pack of kids, played three out of the four quarters without complaining or whining, and she even got to do one kick-off. The best part, she had a huge smile on her face the whole time she was out there. I was very happy with how she did... at practices she would stop and pick grass and play with her hair or adjust her socks twenty times a minute. So the fact that there were very few of these moments during the game is a huge accomplishment. It's all about "baby steps", small reasonable goals... baby steps to kick the ball, baby steps to dribble the ball, baby steps to score a goal.

Here is my favorite picture from the day... taken right before kick-off... what is Savannah doing... uh, starring up at the sky for some reason. Cracked me up. You'll need to know this for the other pictures, she is number 2. She did pick that out all on her own.