Soccer Game

Carter had his third soccer game this morning.  Today's game was at 9 am and the team had pictures before (at 8:20 am). It took us about 30 minutes (there were lots of teams getting pictures taken) and I think that wore the kids out!

Missy's dad took a couple of pictures of us getting our team picture taken.

I'm curious to see what the official picture looks like!  There are 12 boys on the team - 3 weren't there today and 1 didn't want to be in the picture (we are dealing with 3 year olds!).

The games went well - I think we were all a little more evenly matched today.  There are still a few boys that don't want to play and the general interest was a little low today (I think the boys were all ready to leave since they were at the field almost an hour before the game).

Carter was happy the whole time even though he only touched the ball about twice.  He had been a little upset at the last game that he wasn't scoring and so we'd been talking a little about teamwork and that it takes all the players on the team to score.  We had explained that both Brian and I had always played defensive positions and rarely scored when we played.  So today Carter often got behind the group with the ball and follow them around.  When I encouraged him to go for the ball he told me it was okay, he was helping his team.  As long as he's having fun, I'm happy but I guess we need to talk some more about how he can help his team (like by touching the ball when it comes to him!).