Soccer Season

This was Carter's first season playing soccer! We had no idea what to expect...Caleb is an all-star (in our opinion), but we didn't want to set up false expectations for Carter. We weren't sure if he would go after the ball or be one of the kids on the field who smiled for the audience a lot while not actually doing much on the field. Carter's never shown as much interest in sports as Caleb has, so I think we went in with low expectations and were blown away! Carter caught on really fast and totally got the object of the game--run to the ball, dribble it down the field, and shoot a goal. He was the best kid on his team (again, our humble opinion), and without him on the field, not much happened for his team.

 

With the league he plays with, you are only allowed to score 3 goals--which I semi-like but mostly dislike. After Carter scored his 3 goals each game, he would help out his teammates by dribbling it down the field for them and setting it up on the white goal line to allow his teammate to kick a goal (which they still struggled with even with all the work done for them). We encouraged him to pass it to teammates for a few games, but there was only one other girl coordinated enough to dribble it down the field. So in the end we just told him to dribble it down and set it up. He had a great season!

 



(And isn't he so adorable?!?)

Carter's team and coach

 

I failed to get pictures of Caleb in his soccer attire this season. I was the team manager for his team so between that and watching Bryson during games, I never remembered to snap some pictures. He had another great season and had an awesome coach who helped him improve in several areas. He had a great learning experience this season in that there was a handicapped girl on his team; he learned a lot about patience and love. However, the competitive side of him got frustrated because I don't think they ever won a game. Whenever this girl played goalie, the other team tended to score at least a few goals. Sometimes if Caleb was on the field (and not sitting out) he could prevent the ball from ever getting down to that side of the field. He played well and had a good season though.

 

The boys with their trophies

 

 

(Off topic side note for my own record: I tried to download a typing software for Caleb to work on this summer while school is out--it was a program that they use at school--and it gave my computer a virus! Because I was trying to avoid the problem, I shut down my computer and restarted it and now can only get a blank, blue screen. Fortunately I saved all my preschool and church files last week on a back-up drive, but I'm nervous to lose all my pictures and other things I have saved to my computer. I also don't have access to my calendar where I write daily commitments, and I don't have access to my picture program to enhance photos etc. Thus the blurry trophy picture. I'm going crazy! And I'm nervous it's going to be a costly fix.)