Soccer Game #4

The girls won their 4th game: 3-2. It was a very good game. Very close. Hayden came with us and he remarked later that although Rose is probably our best player and the fastest, Meredith is more accurate. He was complaining because Rose's kicks to the goal kept going wide. I advised him she was 5 and when she learns not to kick so hard, she will be awesome. Meredith didn't get a goal this week but she was right in there with the best of them. She played almost the whole 2nd half. Poor baby. It was hot out and she slurped her water down when she did come out.

Meredith loves her soccer shoes so I had to be sure to get a picture of them on her site. They have gold on them. She first wanted the white ones with pink stripes but they didn't have her size. Then I showed her these and we were happy again. Mommy was happy because they were on SALE.

I'm not sure I love this picture. When I first looked at it on the computer, I had a glimpse of her as a big girl (like, high school). It made me both happy and a little sad at the same time. I hope she's still playing sports then. And, I hope she won't mind her parents coming for all the games and snapping pictures like crazy people. OK, well, she'll probably mind but, hopefully, she'll still indulge us. But I doubt she'll still let me put up her hair in those crazy pigtails!

sigh. My chubby cheeked little baby is growing up.

Video of 3rd Soccer Game

Here is something for your viewing pleasure. Meredith actually scored a goal in this game! It's not on this video, of course. Hey, I was watching that! I forgot about the camera. I know, bad Mommy. This video was taken right after that which is why she's a little antsy at the very start.

We did win this game. I forgot the score but it was pretty bad.

Family Night

Last night was Family Night at school. We got to do some singing for our parents and then we got to go to our classrooms. Our teachers told our parents what we were going to learn for the year. This is posted outside my class. It's all about ME!

A Cinderella Story

Right now I am little and I am trapped here doing lots of work. I have to put my shoes in the box and my dirty clothes in the hamper and pick up toys and be nice to my sister and brothers and put clean clothes in my drawers. ...But one day I will get married to a prince. And I will kiss him through my veil because that is how I think it should go.

Mom: Who are you going to marry, Meredith?

M: My boyfriend.

Mom: Julien? Isn't he your boyfriend?

M: No! He's my boyfriend at school but I'm not marrying him. I'm going to marry Harry Potter.

Mom: Harry Potter - your invisible friend?

M: Yes. And who is the girl?

Mom: Hermione.

M: Hermione is my friend too. She's invisible too. And she's going to be at my wedding.

(I hope she'll be wearing a DRESS under her veil!)

Soccer Game #2

Meredith's 2nd soccer game was last Sunday. It was windy! And, I'm sorry to say, our girls got creamed. The other team was big and fast and knew what they were doing. They got 12 goals on us and one of our girls did kick a goal - for the other team. Ah, well.

I was impressed with Meredith though. She's starting to get the idea of what she should be doing. Her body doesn't quite have the follow-thru yet but I could see the wheels turning in her mind and she tried, she really did.

I bet next year, she'll be awesome!

1st Soccer Game

The team name is "The Avalanche". They actually lived up to their name on Sunday. We scored 4-5 goals before I lost count and the other team didn't get any. But they were sure cute!

This is practice before. She had to dribble the ball around and between the cones and then kick it into the goal. (Forgive me if I get the soccer terms wrong - we've never played this before! Feel free to correct me.)
This is Hayden watching intently.
Aren't they so cute! That little girl in the middle is really good. So is the even smaller girl on their team. There were 7 girls there and 4 of them are really good.
My baby is just learning.
She mostly stayed on the outskirts. I accused her of being too considerate of the other kids.
Oh, wait! There she is by the ball. Kick the ball, Meredith!
She's right there in the pack again. Go, Meredith! ...You'll get the hang of it, Baby. We watched some older girls do drills after the game. I'm all for getting the little ones to emulate older kids when they're doing sports.

Grow Up

Stephanie was making me mad. She kept saying she was going to go back to the baby room at church and I told her she had to go to the 3-year-old room now. But she kept saying it so I finally had to tell her....

"You don't grow LITTLE!"

Soccer

I got to meet my soccer coach and some of our team last night. We are the Avalanche! We had a pizza party at the park.

Here I am kicking the ball. The coach told Mom I'm good at ball handling. I know how to get the ball moving and to stop it with my feet. Mom has no idea how I learned that. She also has no idea what that means. She doesn't know much about soccer but she's going to have to learn now. I also have some really cool soccer shoes. They have gold on them.
Then I got to play on the playground stuff. It was really fun.
This is just a small part of the playground equipment. There was lots more and I can't wait to go back. We have practice at this park again soon and, hopefully, we'll get to play some more too!