Indoor Soccer

These two started indoor soccer a couple of weeks ago.  I was really looking forward to a break after football, but they both wanted to play.  I am shocked that Caitlyn wants to play.  She has never been interested in sports and has always been afraid of balls being thrown or kicked at her.  Last year she would even make herself sick because she was nervous about PE.  Something changed this year because she loves PE and all of a sudden she wants to play sports. 

They each have a game during the week and one on Saturday.  Caitlyn is in the 3rd/4th league and Jonah started out in the 1st/2nd league.  Caitlyn's first game went really well. I couldn't believe how she was getting in there and fighting for the ball. She is definitely out of her comfort zone, but she isn't letting that stop her. Jonah did great in his first game, but his team had 14 players.  He spent half of the game sitting out because their team was so big.  We talked to Jonah and he said he would move up and play with Caitlyn.  The Rec Center was happy to let us do this because Caitlyn's team needed more players and Jonah's had way too many. 

I am really proud of Jonah for playing with the older kids.  A lot of them are really big and intimidating, but he is doing great.  It is so much better for us to have them on the same team.  They have their games on Wednesday night, which stinks because Keith has Young Men's, and then just one game on Saturday.

Hallee is a handful at the games, so I am so happy to have them on the same team.  This poor girl gets dragged all over the place. I guess there is advantages and disadvantages to being the youngest! Last week, Keith was able to come to the first part of their game and when he left Hallee and Wyatt were crying and wanted me to hold them.  I picked them both up and Hallee started hitting Wyatt because she didn't want me to hold him and Wyatt was begging me to put Hallee down.  Good times!

The last two games have been a little rough.  The teams they have played have been really good and have some really big kids on them.  You can tell that Caitlyn and Jonah are both pretty intimidated.  They hesitate more when they play against the tougher teams.

The coach asked Keith to fill in for him on Saturday.  Keith did a great job, but the other team was so good.  Our whole team was frustrated.  I love sports because it teaches kids how to be a good winner and a good loser.  Both are really important.  You can't win them all!