soccer part 1

After a laid back day with lots of coloring (including charlie's legs and toes) and heather tracing her hand to draw in the blue fingernail polish that she is currently wearing (thanks grandma easter bunny!) I took Heather to her first soccer practice. She was so excited to put on her shin guards, new shoes (wal-mart) and bring her red star ball. Then we got there and started walking to where her team (the 5 kids and 2 coaches) was stretching out. We got to the fence and she dug her heels in and cried and cried that she did not want to play soccer anymore and she wanted to go back to the car. I calmed her down enough to watch what they were doing (running around the field and jumping up and down) and managed to walk to the bleachers so she could actually see and hear what they were doing. She watched the whole practice and about 20 minutes into it was so interested that she stopped clinging to my arm like I might vanish. We watched teh rest of the practice and then she helped the coach pick up a ball and had cake for one of the boys birthdays and popped bubbles with the kids on her team...better luck next week...so my new saying is...all the stuff we got for heather to play soccer...sitting on teh bench for teh first practice WITH Heather priceless...

in her defense Jeff had said that he was going to come and help coach--of course he got an "urgent" call from his commander and got to sit out the practice waiting for him to get out of a meeting...she also thought that she would know one of the girls on the team who was not there...maybe next week ;-)