Soccer Time!

Cory and I went back and forth about whether or not to put Adilyn in soccer this fall. We really do have a lot going on, but we went ahead and decided to give it a try. After the way she acted in BlastBall, I was really anxious to she how she was going to do with it. I was so glad that I wasn't coaching this time. Besides the fact that I feel huge and enormously pregnant, I was happy that she wouldn't have the chance to use me to cling to. Still, I was completely ready for her to be nervous and stay back away from the action. We got her pink soccer shorts, soccer cleats with a pink Nike swoosh, pink shin guards, and a pink ball; so she was ready to go! Poor Kacy just gets so upset when Adilyn gets to do things that she can't. I try to make her feel like she is a part of things, but it just isn't enough. She was so sad when Adilyn was getting all her gear on. Hopefully, once she turns 3 we can get her into her own things. Anyway, we got to the field, and they had already gotten things started. The kids were running a couple laps around the field. I could tell that Adilyn was scared, so I told Cory to go out with her. I knew that if I went with her, she would never want me to leave her side. She went with him pretty easily, and then she started running on her own. There were 3 girls on the team and 4 boys, and the funniest part was that all the girls were at least a foot taller than all the boys! As the practice went on, she got more and more brave. She even volunteered to be a goalie first, and she pushed her way to the front of the line when they were kicking goals. I was so proud of her! She did her skills just fine, but I was so much more proud of her confidence! I remember how she used to be so timid and so nervous about everything, and here she was right in the middle of things. It made me so happy. I used to hate seeing her be scared of new things only because I felt like she spent so much time being scared that she didn't have time to have fun. Last night, she was a different girl, and I was so happy for her and her little self-confidence! We will see how things change at game time. I am not sure that she is going to like people pushing an shoving her, but who knows, she may be the pusher and shover! :)