Soccer

After much debate on what extracurricular thing Reef should do this spring, we decided on soccer.  He wanted to play with Ethan, but E isn't playing this season.  He said he still wanted to play.  We picked i9 because they play and practice on the same day.  Reef was excited until a couple days before when he started to get anxious said he had changed his mind.  We reminded him that he had asked to play and needed to at least give it a try.  His main fear was that he had no friends on his team.  Troy is helping to coach the team.

The whole family headed out for the first practice and game.  It was hard work with the other 3, but I'm glad I got to be there to see him play.  Reef even scored the only goal for his team!  He asked a boy named Henry to be his friend, so now he's good to go.  He even said he wants to play soccer every season for the rest of his life!

Here are some shots from opening day (Reef is #6)

 He's in the white on the far left of this one:

 Poppy took a short nap and then enjoyed crawling around in the grass.

 This guy was so done by the end.

Note that there are no pictures of Jonas.  He found some other 4 year olds and spent the whole time with them.  He was devastated this week that he couldn't go see his "friends"!  Maybe that will tempt him to want to play next season.