Soccer

Bennett has been really into soccer lately, so although it was supposed to just be for 3- and 4-year-olds, we snuck Bennett into the MBA spouses’ association soccer club. It was just an hour a week, and they would practice the first half, then have a little scrimmage the second half. It took Bennett until probably the 3rd week until he was willing to go out there and play without Nate or I either holding his hand or running alongside him. He still never had a week when he played successfully by himself the whole time (one time, he was upset when he had to put his ball on the sidelines for the scrimmage and wouldn’t go play without it; the last game he ended up in a 3-kid pileup when they were going for the ball and he wouldn’t go back in after that). But he at least improved and seemed to have fun. One of my favorite moments was when, at the last practice, the coach told them to dribble the ball a little bit, then do a big kick into the goal. Bennett was first in line, and when the coach told him what to do, he picked up the ball and started dribbling it like a basketball. It was pretty funny. I think he enjoyed it, even though he had a hard time warming up each week. I took a few pictures of him at the last practice – he insisted on holding his capri sun – let’s be honest, the snacks at the end are an important part of soccer anyway, right?