The Brown Brick Road

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Lightning Bolts

The Lightning Bolts – that might be the new name of Spencer’s soccer team. He and I still vote for the Mighty Lions but we’ll see what the winner is next week! It was a good Sunday at the soccer field. Spencer loved the warmup part of soccer most – especially getting to play red light, green light!

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Look at his face! He’s having a ball!

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The yellow team had plenty of sibling helpers around…

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Including one very cute little sister!

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Spencer was showing off his skills during practice…

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and having fun with his new teammates.

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It was then time for the game and he had some great moves out on the field. He hustled after the ball and played hard!

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He then got bumped on the head and ultimately decided he’d rather play off to the side with Maxwell and the other siblings. We’re working on understanding that you can’t just bail in the middle of your game to go do something else!  🙂 As Coach Robert said, “he did better than last game and that’s all we can ask!” Exactly. This game was an improvement over the last one and I’m proud of him for getting out there!

What made this game even more special? We had the best cheerleader on the sidelines!

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We love soccer even more when GJ gets to come! yay!

Go Mighty Lion Lightning Bolts!

T-ball

We had a T-ball game on a beautiful, sunny, and slightly chilly Saturday morning.

This one was baseball ready…

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This one loved playing in – and getting lost it! – the trees…

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This one sat still for the one second it took to take this picture…

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I loved watching Maxwell play…

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and I also loved watching these two play together!

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Look at those matching cheeks and dimples!

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Another pretty day at the ball field in the books.

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Go A’s Go!

bluebird day

T-ball practice on Monday was just about perfect. Blue skies, puffy clouds, sun shining.

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Doesn’t get much better!

Ballers

We were ballers around here last weekend for sure. We had Maxwell’s t-ball game on Saturday, Spencer’s soccer game on Sunday, and then back to t-ball on Monday for Maxwell’s practice! Something tells me I better get used to that!

Once again, we got lucky with the weather at the game – dreary but thankfully no rain! The A’s all seemed to “get it” a little more at this game.

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Maxwell had some great hits…

and did good to pay attention during the game and be “baseball ready!”. He got to play pitcher (fun!) and actually made a real baseball play! The batter hit the ball, Maxwell scooped it up, threw it to first, and the boy at first actually caught the ball! And this was all before the batter could run to first. woohoo!!

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Gooooo A’s!

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See you tomorrow!

Soccer Star

Well…”star” might be a bit of a stretch! So, Spencer is taking his first turn at Sunday Soccer! Maxwell has played 3 years in the fall and now we’re letting Spencer play in the spring. Robert is his coach and his first game was on Sunday. The beautiful spring weather we had been having decided to take a hiatus and it was 50 degrees, windy, cloudy and COLD. Not exactly ideal soccer playing weather! It also didn’t help that Spencer really just didn’t feel good. His allergies had gotten the best of him and he had been coughing all day and really having a hard time getting a deep breath. He had already used his albuterol inhaler twice that day and we actually ended up at the doctor the next morning and are going to start him on a daily inhaled steroid. Poor bud. Still, he got out there and was having fun during the practice portion of soccer….

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Go Spencey go!

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It was then time for the game and, despite a good pep talk from Coach Brown…

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he just couldn’t make it happen. There were plenty of tears – he wanted his ball, he didn’t want his ball, he was cold, and on and on.

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I know another little boy who might have cried during his first soccer game too! But, Maxwell put it together a little better for his second game and I’m sure Spencer will as well. It’s all a good learning experience. Let’s just cross our fingers for warm sunshine next time!

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ps – even though I can’t say I find those yellow shirts to be very attractive, I do think we could get him excited about being the Yellow Lions!  🙂 Roooar!