Soccer Girl

So we decided to add a sport to the mix, since we didn't feel quite busy enough in the evenings. I'm really looking forward to when Owen is begging to play 3 sports at a time (not). We're thinking soccer may be good for Natalie, because of the whole "team sport" thing. Gymnastics is fine, but she is off in her own little world there half the time, and it's not really a team thing or a goal-scoring thing. So this is a little different for her. The thing with Natalie is - she has a competitive streak, and she can run fast (I planted the idea in her head at one point that she could someday run faster than Liam, and this really seems to motivate her), and she doesn't mind getting in the mix of a group of chaotic, shin-kicking kids. When.She.Wants.To. Then, wa-la, she will Not.Want.To. And it's over. So maybe this will be good for her, and we can try to get her to Want to help her team out for the entire game. We'll see. I can't complain because the first game went far better than Jim and I had predicted. (And yes, some amount of bribery was used...) We also somehow managed to get over the huge hump of "I want to wear a pink jersey. I do not want to wear a blue jersey. I only like pink. Pink is for girls. Blue is for boys." Thus, the pink shoes and pink ball. A girl's got to do what a girl's got to do.

Included above is a picture of her cheerleaders on the sidelines. Oh wait, one of them is playing Nintendo instead of watching. Oh well. At least he wasn't complaining. The other one was actually cheering Go Go GO NATALIE!! If nothing else, he can have a future career as one of the announcers at soccer games who yell GOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!!!! The boy's got a set of lungs.