Clausses do soccer

Yep...it's official. We're now a soccer family. But it's very, very low key.
$20 gets Margaret a T-shirt and 10 games at the local park about 3 blocks away. No practices.

Saturday was the "jamboree". One and a half hours of drills to get the teams together and get started. They had four stations. First they all were to stay inside a marked off area. They threw in 4 or 5 balls and the kids were supposed to dribble them around and try to steal them from each other. Margaret did not understand this and got VERY upset that other kids were taking the ball from her. After a talk from her coach, she got in the spirit and was happily stealing from other kids.
Then they did a dribble and pass station. Then the throw-in station, and then the "shoot the ball at the goal" station. Guess which one Margaret liked. Yep...the shoot the ball at the goal station. Predictable...I guess it is the part everyone likes (sort of like getting to spike the ball during volleyball practice)

Here is Margaret in goal. After she saw that there was a kid in goal she wanted to do this soooo badly. And she got a turn. Only about 4 or 5 kicks at her. And they were really slow (wouldn't have gotten in the net had she not been there). I hope I don't have a budding goalie. I suspect everyone likes to try that at the beginning, too?


And what does the sibling that's not doing soccer do?

This one rolled down the hill at the park about 20 times, took a friend's dog for a short walk, and was even lucky enough to get a shoulder ride.

Well..I need to go and get ready for what looks to be an action packed week. Our first Brownie meeting, a Brownie leaders' meeting, and two soccer games. Oh...and Amelia's first homework Math packet. That's bound to be fun.