Soccer.. Round 2!

Cole started soccer this past Saturday.. he has been waiting to do soccer for a long time now! and we are very excited to be doing it with him. It is amazing what a different experience for us as parents it is playing soccer with Cole versus playing with Caden. As many of you may know Caden is our difficult child. WHAT?! you say?! Don't pretend.. you all know it!

Cole was so much fun! He did every single activity that was presented to him. He did every warm-up (we've never experienced that before!), every drill and every game! Too much fun! and in the end he even got a stamp on his hand, gasp! And the best part (for me!) is that he wanted me to play with him.. so Rob got to take pictures, which is fun too.. but not quite as fun as playing soccer with a very excited little boy!

Cole doing "roly polyies"

Cole's cheering section

Cole and I being airplanes during the freeze drills

Here they had to run up to the ball and kick it against the wall. The coach was very impressed with Cole, she confirmed what we had suspected all along.. Cole is advanced in his motor skills (he had lots of time to practice while he was not talking!) apparently most 2 year olds will run up to the ball, stop, then kick. Not Cole.. he runs and kicks all in one motion, but he was also jumping off the ground with two feet at about 13 or 14 months of age so I guess all his energy has paid off!

I think every child does this.. what is the fascination with rolling on the ball?!! We have a picture of Caden doing the same thing but with one of the squishier balls they play with from time to time.

A crowd favorite.. kicking over the cone tower with the soccer ball. I couldn't build the towers fast enough.. of course I also had Caden as my architect so that could have been slowing me down a wee bit!

What a fun time! Can't wait for next class! and neither can Cole!