Soccer

Saturday was Dylan's first soccer game this season with his new team. They're the Green Dragons instead of the Black Dragons this time. Real original, I know! :) They look more like dinosaurs than dragons if you ask me. The good thing about his uniform this time though is that you CANNOT possibly miss them. All you have to do is find the right park and you will easily be able to find where the team is playing. It's like a really bright highlighter marker! :) I was a little bit nervous because we turned our papers in late so we seem to be on a team with random stragglers that don't live anywhere near one another. Plus we had such a great team and coach last year that I didn't think we could be so lucky. But I may have been dead wrong. The coach was super cute with the kids and they played REALLY well. Dylan was really starting to catch onto the game by the end of spring season last year, but it's amazing what a few months of maturing will do. He is SO much more coordinated now. He was focused the whole time (which was not the case for the majority of the fall games last year) and he seemed to really understand the concept of the game. He scored a couple goals...and he play really well. When he threw in the ball it was right to his teammates (which is rare since most of them like to throw in to themselves - understanding the team concept at this age is difficult). And several times he kicked the ball right to another team member who was able to score. At the very end of the game, he got frustrated because he ran the ball all the way down the field and then kicked the ball out instead of in the goal. Poor kid! He's still a perfectionist and WAY too hard on himself, but he's getting better so hopefully it will prove to be a fun season for all of us. :)