Soccer

It is so much fun to watch one of your children learn something new. Especially when they're very young. That's how we've felt watching Andon learn soccer. He's been taking this techniques class where they learn the proper way to kick and dribble, etc. He absolutely loves it! And what's more, he's not afraid to get out and try.

The class is made up and 3 1/2 to 4 year olds so it is the cutest age to watch them try to dribble and play this game. Some are shy and it takes a moment to coax them to play and some are just gung ho ready. The latter group my son falls into. He's answering questions, the first to 'tag' the coach, and just making us laugh. The other families around us would laugh at the things he would say and do. However, Andon hasn't quite mastered the art of "NO HANDS." Ah well, one can't be expected to rule the soccer world just yet.


Here they are before starting. Aren't they so cute?!!



The man in the hat is Coach Adam and his assistant. (I forget his name. I'm rather good at that.) Coach Adam is amazing! He relates to these boys so well. He does games with them that are really different forms of drills, just age appropriate. I was somewhat surprised that he could command their attention like he did.
He was talking about a animals and how he himself had a dog. Then he'd show them something with the soccer ball and the kids would mimic it. Then he asked him what animal was even bigger and faster. Andon yells out, "YOU'RE DOG!" This illicited quite a few chuckles as Coach was actually talking about a cheetah and being fast like a cheetah. (ie dribbling the ball quicker)

This was actually warm ups. He was having the kids chase him and yelling "GOTCHA!"








Look at the concentration on this face!






I can't wait to go watch him next week!!

More Climbing Pics

I can't believe I didn't include these in the last post! Perhaps I meant to, but by the time everything was loaded I had spent WAY too long on the computer. Some of you have seen the boys right after the climb and thus don't need to scroll through these couple of photos, cause really, real life has much more drama than these pictures. They were absolutely FILTHY!!! In fact, I thought I had taken a picture of Zak with all the dirt CRUSTED ONTO HIS FACE. But, alas, I hadn't, so you'll just have to envision his face more dirty than the picture. The joke was that he'd suddenly turned into a child of another race. HE WAS THAT FILTHY!!! I kid you not. But whatever. The boys just like dirt. What can I say?