It was a cold morning but luckily not too windy and mostly sunny.
I took a couple of videos so I could remember what a U5 game is like. There is such a difference between U4 and U5! I'm really glad our league splits the kids up every year at this age.
Carter is pretty good at practice and super competitive. But that doesn't fully carry over to games. He tends to give up when the other team touches the ball instead of continuing to fight for it.
He will also stand back and watch the other kids playing instead of getting into the mess. He just doesn't have the same drive during the game. I don't think he's scared of getting hurt. He's just content watching.
I love this one where Carter asks Campbell to pass him the ball. Sometimes Andrew and Carter passed back and forth during games that they were the dominant team. Plus they worked on passing this week at practice for the first time.
During the second half of Carter's game, I set up a table for the end-of-season celebration. Since Carter's team chose to be the t-rexes, I made cupcakes like the ones from Rylan's birthday party with t-rexes on the top. One of the parents brought drinks. And all the kids got participation trophies. Also, one of parents was the sponsor (he's in need of a kidney and the facebook site with information was what was on the boys' soccer shirts) so we had the sponsorship plaque for him.
The boys lined up in front of the table for Brian to call them up and give them their trophy.
Brian also got thank you gifts from Andrew and Campbell.
Carter is very proud of his third trophy! And that it is golden again (but has a different soccer guy on it).
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