We are a "wee bit" soccer mad in the house.
Rick coaches our two boys' teams, and Lola is on a team too. We go to three soccer games each Saturday. We have five practices per week. The boys -- meaning dad + sons -- play in an adults/kids pick-up game on Sunday evenings. Rick often takes the kids to various soccer clinics offered by our league. We watch lots of soccer on TV (international soccer being the one and only reason we have cable). I endure quite a bit of soccer in my living room.
We have an unfathomable amount of soccer cleats piled up in our garage. It looks like we could outfit Manchester United, if they all had small feet.
These kids got moves, man. Even Elizabeth and Tallulah move the ball around the house with their feet.
Lola is emerging as quite a little player, dazzling us with her step overs and her dribbling and her dancing with the ball. When we tell her she's got a game the next day, she makes fists of both her hands, pulls her elbows backwards, and yells "YES!" She's been scoring like a mad woman, once scoring 4 goals in one game. She loves that ball. She wanted a Mia Hamm cake for her birthday this year.
She's a beautiful girl, playing The Beautiful Game:
Look for her in the Women's World Cup of 2019!
30 October 2008
Beautiful Game, Beautiful Girl
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Never Enough Words
When I was little, in our house in San Francisco, my parents – the wonderful Larry and Rose – hung a banner on the wall. This was the 70’s: ...
-
For today's Fun Monday, AOJ and the Lurchers gave us this assignment: Continuing in the spirit of "being interested in people,... -
Today's 15 minute writing exercise, from The Observation Deck: A Tool Kit for Writers , by Naomi Epel ______________________ I thrust my...
2 comments:
Way to go Lola!
Ok, now I feel better, we only have practice 4 nights a week and 2 games on saturdays. just a few weeks left....whew! Then we can "sleep in" on a saturday morning again. Lucky me!
Post a Comment