Catch up......

Yikes....it has been a long time since I blogged. Soccer has sprung on us and I love it. Middle J was starting the season, because she had to follow thru for the year for soccer. A Fall season and a Spring season. She told me @ the first practice, "I am not really a sports person, I think this will be the last season of soccer." I was a little sad, but impressed. She tried it and decided it wasn't for her...now fast forward thru 5 practices and 5 games and she loves it!! Loves it! I didn't know she could run as fast as she does or kick a ball half way down the field. If she gets a ball, she focuses on it with such intensity--it freaked ManIL and me out..."is that our girl, who said she wasn't really a sports person?". What a change, and a change she made, rather than us forcing her...I thought it was going to be a long, long season!

Big J loves soccer. His first time @ soccer was last Fall. He was a baseball boy and we loved that. Saturdays were baseball days...long days... sweaty days...but fun to watch. Now, he has decided soccer is his thing and baseball is a thing of the past! We see a different side of his personality on the field. He runs fast, really fast...he listens to his coach, encourages his teammates, but the side we hadn't seen was: A boy, nudging with his elbows against the other players, pushing with his shoulders and backside to get other players away from him. ManIL says..this is how boys are, they are rough, tough and he is protecting himself. Big J has rolled head over heels, had grass in his teeth, scrapes filled with dirt and stinky sweat dripping off his nose! I raised him to play nice with others.....this is new to me Eegads.....what happened to my "little guy" who @ the site of the tiniest papercut needed a healing kiss?

Little J--oh my, the swim lessons have taken every bit of patience and breath out of me. She still prefers to keep her face out of the water. If she could figure out how to swim standing up...she would! Pray for me that this week's lesson goes better. We plan to be @ the pool a lot this summer and I would like for her to be able to actually get in the "big kid" pool without freaking out!