Soccer

Brian played his first soccer game today. He's playing on the team I used to play on. The team just split into 2 teams and so there's a lot of new people on the team. Everyone seemed really nice and it looks like it'll be a fun season.

Brian's team tied their opponents 2-2. Brian did great and scored one of his team's goals! He's going to be sore tomorrow though!

I took the boys out to the fields to watch Brian. The game was at Holston River Park which has a nice playground and a greenway. It was hot this afternoon with no breeze and Carter decided he wasn't interested in the playground almost right away.

I knew it was going to be difficult to keep Carter entertained on the sidelines for the entire game so I took the boys on a 4-mile run on the greenway. Rylan woke up with about a half mile left and decided he was hungry. It was halftime so I got to run by Brian's team with a screaming Rylan on the way to the car to nurse him.

After that I put a blanket under a tree near the sidelines and we watched the rest of the game. Carter was more interested in playing with a soccer ball though than watching the game (which was okay because then he didn't try to run on the field to see Brian).

Brian commented tonight that he's getting old because the coolest part of the game wasn't scoring a goal but Carter cheering for him on the sideline (Brian could hear Carter yelling "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy" over and over again).