Soccer Pro

I am super behind on blogging so I think I might add a post everyday this week until I am caught up. We are leaping back to September I have to post about my little soccer player. Ethan has really turned a new leaf this year. He asked me to sign him up for soccer and I was a little bit unsure because last year was a little bit interesting. Ethan scored plenty of goals last year but they were always for the other team. Any time the ball was near the goal he was defending he would just turn around and kick the ball in. I guess he figured no one was defending him and this was his opportunity. After each game we would try to instruct him that he was supposed to kick the ball in the other net. If he was not scoring a goal for the other team he was mostly running up and down the field with the players never wanting to actually get the ball. He also made sure that we were watching him if we didn't we would definitely hear about it. I am not really sure what we were watching since obviously soccer was not his thing. The last few games were painful because he didn't want to go so then I was dragging him there saying "you are going and you are going to like it, you made a commitment and you are going to follow through" When did I turn in to such a mom? So needless to say I was leery about signing him up for this season, he convinced me that he really wanted to play so I signed him up. During the second game something clicked with him and all of the sudden he was going after the ball and actually turning the ball around and heading toward the right goal. He actually scored several goals for our team. Each week he got better and better by the end of the season he was the best player on our team. It was really fun to see him mature this year. He had a great coach and was surprising us all the time. It was a really fun season and I am actually looking forward to next year.