First Soccer game-Go United!

Saturday was Taylor’s first soccer game.  Their team name is UNITED and their jerseys are orange.  The kids have practice one night a week and then a Saturday game.  The first practice was three weeks ago and it was the first time I had seen Taylor SO SHY?!  Seriously I was not sure who this little girl was out on that soccer field with her head down and her fingers in her mouth looking really shy.  Taylor went out on the field but would not do anything.  She barely even looked at her coach when he talked to her.  About 30 minutes later they had snack and right after that Taylor was her old self!  She was running around, kicking the ball and having a great time.  She did the same thing at the next practice; again snack was the whole turning point!  By the third practice Taylor started off the practice in full force.  She did everything Coach Jose and Coach Robbie told them, she kicked the ball in the goal a couple of times and just had a lot of fun.  I thought she was ready for the big game on Saturday.  We got there and Taylor immediately started to hold onto Rob.  She was acting really really shy?!  She was not interested at all in putting on her orange jersey. (Good thing Coach Robbie had called and told us to wear an orange shirt since their jerseys came in and are SO BIG on the kids!)  It took Taylor almost 30 minutes to warm up and finally make the decision to go on the field and play with her team.  Once she started to play you could tell that she was having fun.  I mean it was so darn cute to see these 3-4 year olds running up and down the field after the ball.  Next time I will have to try and get a video of them.

See I am not sure when this whole finger-in-the-mouth thing started?!

Coach Robbie trying to give some direction to the kids

  

After game huddle…GO UNITED! No one won as neither team scored a goal; there are some great goalies :)

Ok so the kids totally did NOT get this whole hand shaking thing with the other team after the game.

Guess who is really excited that snacks are provided after the game!

A couple of the kids weren’t interested in sitting on the team blanket for snacks.  There are usually 9-10 kids.

Sorry I know these pictures aren’t the best.  Rob and I were trying harder to get Taylor to get on the field.  Of course after the game, she was running all over the field and wanting to play…kids?!

 

One of Caroline….(Ellie too.  She stayed with us all weekend and we had a blast.  The girls all loved being with one another.)