Where We've Been Spending Our Saturdays!!

We signed Chloe and Elijah up for soccer and since their birthdays are close enough they get to be on the same 3-4 team!! Their team is very appropriately named "The Swarm" and so far it's been really fun to watch them play!  Practice has been interesting... One week it was canceled because of rain, the next week it was canceled because it was so hot/bad air quality and this week it was brutally hot!! 104 as I was getting out of the suburban!

Eli is as young as you can possible get to be on the team-you had to be 3 by June 3rd, which is his birthday, and you can tell he's young!! He is now spending about half the time in practice and half with me, which is actually quite an improvement!! In fact this week he was the stereo-typical kid picking clover flowers, and running over to give them to me several different times during practice! Very sweet and cute!  And his first game was hilarious!! Once he finally decided to go out on the field and play, he had fun running around with everyone until he got the ball... Then everyone started coming after him and he just plopped down on the ball and kind of sat there with a "what are you gonna do about it" look on his face!!  The coach had to coax him off the ball so they could resume play!! And wouldn't you know I had put my camera down for that one moment and missed getting the shot of him sitting on the ball... I would have loved to have captured that moment since it probably won't happen again!! 

Chloe is old enough to "get" a lot more of the concepts and what is going on, so she is doing pretty well and has even scored a few goals, although she is a little less aggressive than I would have anticipated her being!  She really loves to trot along with the "swarm" of kids and doesn't really look for the ball or go after it but if it happens to connect with her foot then she does know to run with it towards the goal!!

This was a picture of them before their game on the day of their Soccer Birthday Party!!

Go Swarm!

Water break!

Orange slices are just a part of youth soccer, right!

Warming up before the game!

Chloe's in the middle watching herself run!!

Water break for Eli!

Watch out!

Fancy footwork!

Eli's got the ball!

Running after the ball!

Go Chloe!!

Wipe out!!

Go Swarm!!

This is right before Chloe scored her goal!

Go #4!!

This was funny too... Eli fell and then just lay there for a really long time!!

I'm sure you will be seeing more soccer pictures as the season progresses!!