Nothing is sweeter!
Thanks Auma, for letting us crash in on your free time so much this summer.....and for all the goodies you now have all across your yard!
Austin is great with them!!
Here is my Super Star - if I can actually convince her to play on the field. She's come a long way!! The first actual game against another team was pretty rough. She does not like the other team taking the ball from her and insists that everyone is pushing her. She got her feelings hurt a few times and has had to slowly work back to enjoying the game. But in the last week or so has really started having fun with her teammates. She is now much more willing to voice her concerns, as she is now the child running at the back of the pack with her hand in the air yelling "No pushing, that not nice! I will kick the ball!" ;-) We work on a learning curve.
My fabulous team ~kaos~.
Two of my very generous team parents sponsored our team and decided that 'kaos' was the perfect name for our team. I concur, it fits!
Bojan, Levi, Lucas, Anna, Nakiah, Diego, Kasey and James
You might see 7 kids doing their own thing, not paying attention, I see success in getting 7 of my 8 players to stand in the same location long enough for a picture to be taken!!
So patient and so focused
Nakiah in her very first soccer game
Bojan and Nakiah chasing after the ball
I try to explain the object of soccer is to get the ball into the goal.....I'm glad she can celebrate the simple joys of just getting her foot on the ball!
She was so overjoyed that in the middle of the 'play' she cut left and darted to the sidelines to tell Daddy and Auma that she "did it!"
And then the 'pushing' began...
We had a few tears
And coach/Mommy needed to mend a tender heart
Its good to be a passionate player!
Even with the little stresses and somewhat frustrating situations that inevitably arise with a team of 8 3-5 year olds, I've thoroughly enjoyed watching the kids get excitement out of things that I take for granted. They are my team of little super stars and I'm such a proud coach!!
She even gets her table out and sets up her station while I get her supplies ready. She sits down and waits patiently for me to set everything out for her.
If I try to talk to her while she's in the middle of something she tells me "I very busy mom, I doing my work". Its rare that she ever looks up long enough for me to take a picture.
I hope she always enjoys doing her projects!
She was having so much fun watching all the other kids run and slide and was really getting into it, especially when she watch Kasey (the slip n' slide KING) take his turns.
Allyson taking a turn
Kasey plowing through the water
Nakiah's version of playing on the slip n' slide
Until she was brave enough to actually "slip n' slide....
...which was more like crawling down the slide and splashing her hands into the "pool".
With a little help from Daddy, not that he needs the help considering how fearless he is, Kicen even partook in the slip n' side festivities!
We had a birthday bbq at Auma and Auda's house, complete with lots of water fun.
Kicen had so much fun playing in the water and running around with the kids.
It was hard to keep him focused when it came time to open gifts, but the trucks seemed to do the trick
Nakiah did very well being patient and letting her brother open the gifts.
The best gift of the entire day, it seemed, was a card that played music....
I seriously thought my son would devour the cake and have it all over him...
to my surprise, he was almost disgusted with the idea of touching it, let alone putting it in his mouth!
Sister, on the other hand, was just waiting to break into that frosting!!
Kicen got a little bit on his finger and was pretty concerned about it...
...until I gave him a spoon
Apparently, my son prefers to use utensils.
Nakiah is okay with using her fingers... ;-)
We even did a little celebrating for Daddy's birthday
The oh-so-happy-birthday-boy
We ended the evening with a few test runs of the new toys
I think the party was a success!!
Thanks to everyone who made it to celebrate with us!!
