Soccer game 3 was fun!  I wouldn’t say Maxwell is the next David Beckham but…hey, who is?  I have figured out that Maxwell likes the practice part of soccer much more than the game part.  Good to know.  Now, we were still a little tired and pitiful from the HFM sickness so I’m going to blame a little bit of the lack of play on that.

Before everyone else got there, Maxwell had fun warming up with Coach Dad…

I think he was liking having that field all to himself!

But, he was glad when some blue teammates showed up and they got ready to work on some drills…

Coach Robert runs em pretty hard!

Yep, they had a pretty serious game of Red Light Green Light going on!

Red Light Green Light is definitely Maxwell’s favorite part of soccer!

Meanwhile, Spencey was hanging out in this genius contraption…

Why didn’t I think of that?!

Pretty soon it was game time!  Gotta huddle up and strategize…

Maxwell actually got out there during the first half.  I’d say his field time totaled aboooout 2 minutes.  But, he made that most of that 2 minutes!

During the game, Spencey made a friend…

Riley was so sweet to him and definitely more interested in playing with the baby than playing soccer!  🙂  She then gave him her purple soccer ball and he was one happy camper!

Halftime and everyone regrouped…and Coach Robert gave a little pep talk.

Then, after MUCH convincing, Maxwell made his 2nd-half field appearance for about a minute and a half!

and he did GREAT!  Look, I understand where he’s coming from.  He juuuuust turned 3 and a lot of these kids are about to turn 4.  That’s a big difference that can be pretty overwhelming to a little guy…especially when there’s 7 of them out on the field all trying to kick one ball!  And, for the record, there were two other kids that played even less than Maxwell did.  We’ve got some reluctant soccer players on Team Blue!

I wasn’t keeping score but given how many goals Nate the Ringer scored, I’d say Blue Team was victorious! We were, of course, gracious winners and shook hands with the losers…

and then everyone got to enjoy the best part of soccer – snacks!  No one even messed around with fruit this week.  Just Nilla Wafers straight up.  Nice.

Three cheers for my soccer player…whether he actually plays or not!  🙂