The End of Soccer

For the past 8 weeks Kai has been enrolled in a soccer class.  After the roller coaster ride last time he took soccer, he decided that really did like the sport and wanted to play again.  Unfortunately, the YMCA wasn't teaching soccer this summer so we went in search of another program.  Overall, I was happy with the program we found and would consider it again.  There were definitely several things that I didn't like either, but I guess there's no such thing as a perfect situation.  This program was much more geared toward the younger crowd.  There were A LOT of pretend games.  The funny thing was that with each game they played the objective remained the same:  kick a soccer ball from one net over to the other.  They did it to feed hungry hippos or to keep balls away from aliens, but no matter what you called it, it was the same thing.  There was one week that they got to do an obstacle course and Kai loved that.  He really looked forward to going to soccer each week and even told me this morning that he couldn't find his jersey.  He was getting dressed for soccer all by himself--amazing!  I told him that once we start school and get a feel for it, if we still feel we can handle soccer we'll look into then.  Until then, it's the end of our soccer season.  Here are some pictures from Kai's last day of class (note that Kai is in the tan/khaki shorts).

Doing the "magic name ball" to start the class

Get the balls in the net

Preparing for races

Coach Bethany said freeze.  Kai was the only one who took this seriously.

Bouncy Balls

There were so few kids at class this day that Kai got to play with 2 purple balls.  This is the same kid who asked me to make him some purple pants this morning when I told him that they don't sell purple pants for boys.

Approaching the net

Making sure it really did go in the goal!