A friend pointed it out that I am now officially a soccer mom. I hadn't thought about Madsen starting soccer that way, but I'm actually excited to start this new phase in my life. It was hard this last weekend to realize that my little boy is so grown up, but it was so much fun to see his excitement to be playing soccer. We had gone to the store a couple weeks ago to get all the gear he needed and he was so excited. He anxiously waited his turn to check out and when we finally got to the register he informed the girl that "These are my shinguards to keep my legs from getting hurt, and this is my ball that I can kick hard, and these are my cleats that are going to help me run faster cause I'm Madsen Rodney Harmon and I'm going to play soccer like my Uncle Emmanuel." Then we had to keep letting him know that as much as we love our soccer stuff we don't wear them to bed, as he kept trying to convince us to let him. Finally the day of his first practice and game came and he was SO excited. He loved practicing with all his teammates and loved dribbling the ball across the field. So much that when the game was ready to start he didn't want to part with his ball and started crying. I was finally able to convince him that he would be able to keep his ball and take it home, but that he needed to go onto the field and play with his teammates, so then he waited his turn to sub in. He got out there and did so well! If any of you have been to the a little kid soccer game you know its like a group of little bees that follow and surround the ball. But my little Madsen was one of the few that would get the ball out from the group and start dribbling it down the field. He was so good at stealing the ball in fact, that his coach had to tell him to try not to take it from his teammates. haha. We discovered that he's really good at dribbling the ball, but we need to work on looking up and shooting the ball into the goal instead of dribbling past it. :) He had so much fun and was a little upset when the game was over, but was excited when we told him he would play again soon. We all had a lot of fun and we're happy that we have our first soccer player in the family :)
He was really happy that his team color was green, one of his favorite colors :)
He did good at shooting into the goal during practice :)
He's the second one in line, waiting for his turn to dribble and shoot.
