Lil' Kickers

Last Spring when soccer sign-ups for Matthew came up, I decided to hold off. I wasn't sure how much we'd be able to commit to with a newborn and if Matthew was going to play on a team, I wanted him to be on a team with kids from his school. Of course, after Elyse arrived and I determined that soccer might be manageable, all the leagues were full. So, we opted to give Lil' Kickers a try. After a little perusing, I realized that I could sign both boys up of classes that happened at the same time. Two birds with one stone, awesome!

Last Thursday was their first day. Apparently 3:30pm is a bit early for most school aged kids and not very popular with the 3-4 yr old crowd, because both boys were the only ones in their classes. While I do hope for the sake of scrimmage (in Matthew's case at least) that more kids sign up, it was pretty nice for both boys to have some much appreciated/needed one-on-one time.
Both boys warmed up with stretches and drills,

Okay, there was another girl in Sethie's class, but she didn't even last 10 minutes.

practiced some shots, played a few games,

Matthew loved that he "won" all the races and games that he played; his coaches were nice guys!

and finally combined for a little bit of scrimmage.

When Seth was actually trying to NOT touch the ball he kept them behind his back or in his pockets.

True to form Seth found some ways to be mischievious. When kicking balls from one goal to the other, Seth enjoyed, while his coach was not looking, picking up the balls and moving them closer to the goal before kicking them in. Similarly, when standing up knocked over cones with his feet, he loved try to sneakily use his hands instead. Each time he purposely used his hands, he laughed his big belly laugh, laughing especially hard when he was caught. He even found a way to subtly cheat in warmup . . . notice the hand on the wall with every left foot tap.

I'm superthrilled with the classes, the coaches, and the facility (not to be a pansy, but it gets cold standing outside in the rain at November soccer games). Yeah for Lil' Kickers!

Elyse liked Lil' Kickers too!