Soccer mom once again

Well, Robbie has finally gotten his wish to play soccer. He has officially started practices. However, we have yet to have a practice without a bit of drama. The last one was because he was mad at being made to wear long pants instead of the shorts that he just KNEW he was supposed to be wearing. Forget that it was about 40 degrees outside....he was supposed to be wearing shorts. Meagan and I finally got him distracted from this bit of theatrics and he did participate in the practice. It's pretty cute to watch really little kids play soccer. There are no rules (or it appears that way at least) and always looks like a big free for all. And often you will see them scoring on their own goals. All in all pretty good entertainment LOL.

Here I am helping him "warm up" Check out that form! LOL If I could just do this for about 3 hours a day, I'd need a new wardrobe :)



The boy definitly knows how to dribble the ball



As boredom sets in, Katie takes to attacking Rob for entertainment.



The mighty athlete taking a much needed water break.



The "herd" attacks the ball. I say herd because that is just how they move. There is no strategy, no defense and offense in U5 soccer. There is a single-minded mentality "GET THE BALL" and that is what they ALL try to do!



But they do break out now and then



And he seems to have trouble staying on his feet. Appears to have inherited my clutz gene LOL It almost looks like they all are trying to figure out who should go get it.



I'll keep you updated as the season moves along. First real game is sometime in April I believe. We'll see if he lasts that long.