I can now officially claim the title of Soccer Mom. We just completed our first soccer season in this house and it was an amazing success. I can't tell you it was a success necessarily by our teams record as I have no idea in the end what the official record was, but I can tell you it was a success in fun!
JP took the plunge this year into soccer. After spending many, many days on the playground at school kicking the ball around with friends he decided that he wanted to give it a shot and we are sure glad he did. He had the time of his life. It was such a joy to watch him run around on the field and every game he had the biggest smile on his face at the end. He had Coach G and what a blessing he was. You could tell he truly enjoyed all the children on the team and loved getting the opportunity to encourage them and coach them.
This is JP before his first game. He was so excited to discover that on almost every team we played he had a little buddy and he would spend some of the time socializing with them and a couple of times got distracted by planes and birds flying overhead. We also got quite the kick out of his tendency to run parallel to the ball and give the appearance that he was making a move for the ball but in actuality it appeared that he was just trying to stay away from harms way. Towards the end he finally started to get more aggressive and go for the ball more. A couple of times he would catch a hard kicked ball in the belly but he would bounce back and keep going at it. His game and confidence really grew with each game and we are so excited to see what next season will be like.
Congratulations JP! You were great!!
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