Soccer - take two.

Reasons why I think this may be the only season of soccer for Miss Elena:

1. She sticks her hands out to the side like a girlie girl when she runs

2. She squeals at the ball when it is near her and usually runs away from it

3. She would rather talk to the girls on the other team than get the ball from them

4. She told us she just wants to have practice, not play in games

5. She says its really hard to be aggressive

6. She will randomly stop what she is doing in a game and start spinning around in circles

7. She was a little sick the other day so we let her nap and decided not to wake her up for her game but to let her rest. When she got up Robert told her she was sleeping so good that we hated to wake her for the game. She replied - I slept extra long so I wouldn't have to go to my game!!

Other than that I got some really cute pictures from her last game. In some it actually looks like she is being aggressive too! :)

She is fun to watch once I let go of my competitive nature (extremely hard by the way!) and I would like to point out she is not doing the head stand below - but I thought it was too funny not to take a picture of!

Dominic really likes being outside and watching his sister play soccer. He will just happily sit and stare at the game the whole time!

Go Layna Go!

We will see how the rest of the season goes! :)

1st Soccer Game.

Elena's 1st soccer game was last weekend! Oh my word, who knew you could get so worked up about 3 year olds playing soccer?? :)  

 Even though the pictures below make it look like Elena was actually doing something, I can't tell you how many times she just looked at the ball and watched it roll by! I don't know why, but it was so frustrating that she wouldn't go after the ball! Maybe part of it was this was the first game or that they were playing kids 2 years older or maybe she didn't like running in her huge dress jersey. ;) Whatever it was, I hope she tries to go after the ball a little more next game or this will be the longest season ever!

She did look like she was having fun at least (well when she wasn't looking over at me and telling me that she was running out of energy!)

She perked right up after the game when it was time to run through the tunnel though! I'm pretty positive this was the highlight of the game for her (and the rest of the girls too)! :) Ha ha!

 I just need to keep telling myself that the main thing is that she has fun playing and makes some new friends along the way. I think she is doing that just fine.

Go Blue Lightning!

 

Soccer.

Elena has started her first team sport -- soccer! We decided this would be a great sport to start out with to learn about playing with a team and so we could run out some of her crazy energy! I know absolutely nothing about soccer so this season is going to be interesting. Luckily we have a good friend who has his own soccer club with several teams of different ages. It is nice to know that she is learning the right way to play soccer from a great coach! Here are some pictures from her first practice.

 Watching six 3 year olds trying to learn how to play soccer is pretty hilarious! Bless the coach for his patience (cause I sure couldn't do it!).  

Elena really seemed to enjoy it! Baby Dominic slept through the whole thing! ;)   

 It is going to be so fun watching her play this year - and she has already made some great friends!

Perfect end to a hot 1st practice - Popsicles!! :)

Go Blue Lightning Soccer!