On Kicking the Ball

Warming up

Getting Set

Jude recently started playing soccer! Getting him involved in sports and other activities has been something I've been yearning for since I first found out I was having a kid. I'm not sure if I always knew I'd be a kind of soccer mom (in the sense that I craved all the involvement and running around that kids can bring), but since having Jude it's become apparent that I just love doing stuff with him (of course days at home have their place in my heart too).

Over the past year or so, Jude had played in a little program at one soccer club called "Itty Bitty Sports". I was cute, but not quite what I'd hoped for. I wanted structure, learning and games. This was more of a free-for-all, open-gym kind of experience. So, when I saw that Jude qualified for a local soccer program that actually played games, had practices and wore uniforms, I about swooned.

Jude and Trent doing their own thing.

Two Sunday's ago was his first game and it was just what I had expected! Little kids running around the field with barely any idea what to do... other kids running around going right for the goal... other kids having zero interest in the game and paying more attention to their parents. Jude appeared to be one of those in-between-kids. He wanted to play with the ball, but after two and a half years of telling him to share and not take things from other kids, who can blame him for not going after the ball when someone else had it?!?

Good Sportsmanship

His second game he had a pretty good first half, but by half time, the fact that he hadn't napped got the best of him. He 'played' a few minutes with a bag of fruit in hand and then was out for the count.

Go J-man!