September 15th--First Soccer game

It's true, I'm officially a soccer mom now. Though U6 soccer doesn't generate quite the fanaticism as other levels, I think. Otherwise soccer parents in this area are pretty normal, as we all had a great time watching our little ones play soccer on Saturday.

The U6 has one meeting a week. For the first half (30 minutes), they have practice. The second half is games, with 3 kids per side and no goalie.

Erik doing some drills






He loved the drills part. The game time was very hard for him. He started off OK


but he quickly started doing this


He did not want to play, and when he was on the field he wanted to just stand. It turns out he felt like all the other kids were much faster than him. He and Carl had a good talk about how he could practice getting faster by running during the week, or he could practice playing smarter and figuring out how to play well even if he wasn't the fastest. With a lot of encouragement, he stayed with it the whole time. It probably didn't help that Saturday was one of the busiest days we'd had in a long time.



Anders, on the other hand, was oblivious to soccer after a little while. First, he found the dirt.


After awhile of playing with the dirt, he moved on to, well, muddier pastures