Soccer!

Took the kids to their first soccer class today. Kelsie, despite not showing a lot of athletic ability before now, is not half bad! She's competitive and likes to lead the class, no matter what kind of class it is, so she approached soccer the same way. She needs a little practice in controlling the ball, especially if she needs to change its direction, but she could dribble, had a pretty solid concept of defense, and she several goals.




Dylan also had his first soccer class today. This pretty much sums it up:


He often takes some time to warm up to new situations, so he was really shy and didn't participate much. Kelsie held his hand through some of the drills, and when she did that he got really into it -- huge smiles, getting into the fun, and kicking it pretty well -- but otherwise he kept leaving the group and moping.

Oh well, there's always the next class.

His preschool had a baseball-themed party for Father's Day, and Brian keeps claiming that Dylan hit the ball a mile. Some proud-dad exaggeration there, but the kid clearly has some athletic ability.