Soccer in September

Troy's 1st Soccer Season - U7 Katy Youth Soccer

Team : Texans

I asked Liam to stand still for a picture, but he said, "No mom, take a picture of me dribbling."

Liam's 1st Soccer Season - U5 Katy Youth Soccer Coed

Team : Dragons

Liam's 1st Game

Liam has no problem chasing after the ball and wanting to score. At home, Liam shoved Troy when Troy was defending the goal a little too well. For some reason, it brought out extreme laughter out of me and I had to collect myself in order to have a teaching moment. He was sorry and back to his happy self. 

Troy's 1st Game

Ben has always talked about how he wants to help our kids excel in sports. He wants them to feel confident, learn hard work and team work. I loved this first "dad's advice" moment. Troy was a little taken back by the amount of contact in soccer. He tried hard to get to the ball, but if someone else had it, he would back off. My sweet Troy. He has come a long way since that first game. We practice at home (after this first game, we went and bought a small $30 goal to practice with. I'm not competitive or anything. It was all Ben's idea....) Anyway, now he is better about going after the ball. He's great at defending and improving at dribbling. But most importantly, Troy really likes it. I'm loving this new era of entering sports!

This little princess has been sick for over a week. She was sweet the first couple of days, but after that, she just kind of whined all of the time and you couldn't reason with her. It didn't matter if I gave her what she wanted, she would find something else to whine about. BUT..

The last couple of days have been a lot better. Back to my smiley Katelyn. She's still 2, and therefore is very hard to reason with sometimes, but she is quickly learning about timeouts. I love this girl to pieces.

 We had a RS activity recently about emergency preparedness. It was a good reminder! I got out our 72 hour kits to check how they were doing. It may have been a few.. several years since I've touched them. Needless to say, we will be changing the food and water.

Ben takes the SUV for young mens, so we got in the corolla and headed to Wendy's for a frosty. We had been trapped in the house for so long (because of Katelyn's sickness) that it was really exciting. Haha. The kids laughed at me when I dipped my fries in my frosty. But it's the best! One day they will learn...

 We went to a new park in Cinco Ranch (a really nice area South of us about 20 minutes.) 

My pictures are terrible, but Liam is at the top of slide. It was SUCH a cool park. We will be going back!