Soccer Time

This year the boys are on the Green Hornets. With a new soccer year comes new equipment. I went online and picked out cleats and balls. I even had the boys approve the colors. We made a last minute change from the blue cleats to the red ones. Well, we got our shipment in the mail and to my surprise the cleats are actually hot pink. Fortunately, the boys still think they are "red"- just a different shade of red. Luckily, on picture day no one said anything about the color. Besides you never mess with the athlete who is confident enough to wear girl shoes.

We Are The Panthers

So the boys started soccer this year and Timmer is the coach. It has been a very challenging experience to say the least. All the boys on the team are wonderful and get along great and I also really like the parents. However, I am quite embarrassed at my boys behavior. Both of them are the biggest cry babies I have ever seen. They get so frustrated and break down and cry and tantrum. AJ has even quit (because he wasn't winning) and left practice and gone off by himself to the park. (He had to walk home as punishment for that one and will not being doing that again.) They are just so ultra competitive it is almost unbearable. Games have been a little more fun. AJ has been scoring about 3 goals a game so far and PJ has been a very good defender. I am just thinking that they might need a little more time for them to grow up so that they can handle these structured sports and competition. I don't think we will be doing t-ball in the spring. Maybe we need an individual sport like swimming.