My Little Soccer Players

This Fall, Austen and Peyton are enrolled in soccer. We decided it was time to get Peyton involved in an extracurricular activity since we had been doing a weekend activity such as music, gym class, basketball, baseball or soccer since he was 4 months old. We waited until Peyton was almost 21 months but I guess that's what happens with the second - you don't get them involved as early. I think with the first, the activity is more for the parents than for the kid!

Anyway, Austen and Peyton play at the same time on indoor fields that back up to each other. Austen plays in a 4/5 class/league so they work on drills for about 20 minutes and scrimmage for about 25 minutes. He loves to run and chase the ball and has scored a number of goals. Lucky they haven't been own goals since he routinely kicks the ball to the nearest goal. We have to work on which goal is his!

Peyton's soccer is a little soccer, bubbles, parachutes and games of red light, green light. At first she wasn't so sure but now she seems to really enjoy it. She especially likes sitting in the middle of the parachute as the parents grasp the ends and run around in a circle. I remember that there was no way that Austen was going to sit on that parachute - he always had to be on the outside.

Anyway, I'm glad they are playing soccer. Austen seems way more into it now than he was when he was 3. But it's still too early to tell if either of them will be a soccer player.

Check out Peyton in her uniform (Austen was being grumpy!)