Soccer Season

Princess Sparkley and Buddy started soccer last week. This is the first year either of them has played soccer. They are on different teams in different age groups through the same church sports league (not our church) that Buddy played t-ball with.

I've forgotten my camera for two practice days and one game day now. So these are all cell phone pictures. And the one with B lined up with our three kids, is just our family playing soccer together for practice one night before the game, not even an official soccer practice.

Princess Sparkley's team is the Purple Panthers. Her coach has been coaching for years and is really great with different practice ideas, and learning the kids' names. Buddy's team is the Red Runners (the kids elected a much longer name like the Red Super Duper Fast Runners, but the coach shortened it). It is Buddy's coach's first year, but he's going pretty well figuring everything out. Buddy's dream position is goalie. Unfortunately, the 5-6 year old league doesn't use goalies yet even though every kid on the team is super paranoid about having an open goal and wants to guard it.

The two really cloudy pictures are from tonight's practice. There were supposed to thunderstorms so Buddy's coach canceled practice, but it hadn't actually rained yet, so Princess Sparkley's coach kept practice. They only got sprinkled on a tiny bit at the very end. And he was nice enough to let Buddy, and a couple other kids from Buddy's team that showed up, practice with his team. Before practice, Buddy was sitting on his soccer ball at the other end of the field watching PS practice. It looked like such a cool picture, but the cell phone camera couldn't handle it.