Soccer

 First Practice

We signed Jared up to play soccer this Fall.  He started 2 weeks ago and has been enjoying himself. It is the first organized sport team we have participated in and so far it has been a nice experience. Mark is his coach and our friend Tom (Lenox) is the co coach. We are going through the JAG program (military law program).  It is pretty low key and relaxed which we wanted. We had him signed up for a 5 year old team but moved him up to a 6 year old team (the person in charge asked for volunteers of older 5 year olds who could move up) because there were too many 5 year olds, the teams were huge.  He is turning 6 during the season anyway. He had his first game today as the one scheduled for last week got rained out which was good for us since we were out of town and Mark is the coach.  His team name is "the Giants".  This was not Jared's choice but he has moved on. They ended up winning 5 : 2 and Jared was pretty pumped about it.  I was happy that he (the whole team really) did a good job being good sports and not rubbing it in the other teams noses.  They were excited but not gloating.  We will see how he does when he is not on the winning team.  Its a nice venue to teach about these things.  Good sportsmanship and how to deal with losing. The season ends October 31st so its not a huge commitment. It is hard for me to have something scheduled every Saturday at 9:00 in the Fall.  There are so many fun activities and such amazing weather. I think it will be good for Jared.  We asked Lydia if she wanted to play when we signed Jared up and she was not interested. Then when we went to his first practice she asked why she wasn't playing. Silly girl.  We will see if she wants to try it out in the Spring when they do it again.

HIs blue socks make it easy to spot him. 

 Jared and Mark. 

Jared was super excited, they had just scored. I don't think he made any goals but he went the right direction and ran his heart out.