Carter's First Soccer Game

Today was Carter's first soccer game. It was so much fun to watch him! He had a blast!! (Except he did have a minor-ha!- meltdown in the middle. He was quite upset that he couldn't kick the ball. He finally figured out that if he wanted to kick the ball, he had to actually run after it. Who would have thought?! He also wanted to use his ball and not the team ball.)

They start with a 30 minute practice. Every kid has a ball for this part, so I think he got a little confused when they took away all but one ball. They practice doing soccer moves, but they have adorable little names for everything. The ball is called "Bob" or "Bobcat". In the picture below Carter is "stopping Bob". They also do this cute penguin waddle to dribble the ball. He LOVED it! (He does the practice part at his school one day a week also.)

During the practice part, Carter would turn around and wave at us and yell "Hi!!" It was so cute.

He's wearing his soccer wrist band that Lexie got him.

This morning on the way to the game I asked Carter if he was going to run fast. He replied in a very serious tone, "NO, I am going to run slow so I don't get hurt. I will kick the ball fast, but I will run slow."

Well that might have been his plan, but he did actually run fast.

I can't wait until next Saturday!