Saturday, September 20, 2008

I guess I'm a soccer mom...

The kids just recently started soccer. Last Saturday they had a welcoming "meet the coach" day. Adrienne had a blast, but Cooper cried and kept saying, "I want to go home, I want to go home!" There were a ton of kids and the Coach was really loud and it wasn't looking good. Ryan had to stay with him the entire time and when he finally started doing things by himself he'd look back every 5 seconds to make sure Ryan was right there. I was starting to think that we were going to have to pay for Ryan to take the class and buy him a uniform!

Cooper did warm up to Coach Jay and talked about him throughout the week like they had been best friends on the "meet the coach" day. "Coach Jay say, 'Ready, Set, Chicken nuggets!' He so funny!" Coach Jay say this or that.

The day of his practice came and he acted excited, but I was worried he'd pull a "I want to go home" moment. He was a little clingy right before practice started, but as soon as Coach Jay said "lets go" he was out there without any problem. Every once in a while he would look for me and wave with a big grin and say "Hi mom!"

It was really entertaining watching 3 year-olds run around.... organized chaos. Cooper many a time got distracted by the dry dirt on the ground and would stop and try to make big dust clouds.

It was pretty funny when the coach said, "The blue team go over there." and all of the blues and half of the reds (including Cooper) took off running. Also, Coach Jay counted them into little teams and was saying, "You're 1, You're 2, You're 3" and so on and he was immediately corrected with, "I'm not 1, I'm 3" or "I'm not 2 I'm 3!"

Adrienne ended up with a fun class with only 10 kids and 7 of them we know! Good times at soccer!




Lizzie, Emma, Adrienne, Avery, Coriel, Alyssa & Ben Cooper learning to stop the ball


Sorry about the loud soccer mom in the background!

3 comments:

mike and bri smith said...

That is too funny that the kids corrected the coach on their ages when he was counting them off. Kids are so darn cute!!!

Natalie C. said...

Wow, Cooper's doing great! We still sort of have to bribe Eli, and he is SIX! Very fun & cute videos & pic's. :)

M & J Bowerbank said...

I love how little Coppers legs look compaired to the big soccer ball. Wow I didnt know that there were that many kids I know on the same team! Let me know when there is a game, I would love to come watch them. Thanks for the wonderful dinner last Sunday, it was scrumptious!