Soccer Mom

I officially became a Soccer Mom!

Caleb decided that he wanted to play Spring Soccer this year.  We learned about a group called Upward from our friends, and decided to enroll our boys together.  They are run by a local Pioneer Baptist Church and are amazing!  It is such a great league.  Well organized, Christian based, and they do so much for the kids.  Caleb was chosen to play on the Rottweilers.  It was a super cute team full of very shy, inexperienced players with 2 High School boys who had never coached before.  Needless to say we were not the winning team in the league or even close, but we most definitely were the most improved and had a lot of fun!

Before the games, the kids were able to run through the sign and have their names announced.  This is the beginning of the first game.

  Before each game and during practices, the players said a prayer and even memorized scriptures that helped talk about good sportsmanship.  I loved how the focus was on sportsmanship.

Our poor kids had no idea how to play soccer. They didn't know to chase after the ball or what to after they threw the ball in. Our first game, we didn't score a point! The other team had an aggressive little boy that like to push and pull teammates down by their jersey, our players were happy to stay away from him. Check out the little video of our first game. We are the green team.

 

Our first game was a blow out.  And our little team only scored one point in 3 games.  Caleb was fortunate to score the teams first goal.  We did win one game and actually scored 7 goals that game.  I was so proud of Caleb, he scored 3 of the goals that day and actually helped his friend score one of them.  He could have easily scored himself, but he chose to help his friend score instead.  We couldn't have been more proud of him!   

Our Last Game

Well the Rottweilers came a long way this season and we are so proud of them.  For their last game we played the team we played the first game.  They beat us again, but not by much and we sure worked hard.  I loved this team because the kids were fairly evenly matched, no one was mean, aggressive or a ball hog, and they worked together well.  I had to get some videos of how much we had improved and let the grandparents see Caleb in action.

Just a reminder that you can always click on the pictures and make them bigger.  Caleb is in blue this time.

This video caught a very Caleb moment.  Caleb was really fast and often had break aways with the ball.  However, he still has to learn control and although he had a lot of chances to score a goal, they didn't usually go in.  It sure was fun to see him hustle though and become much more focused and aggressive going after the ball.  He was always kind though and very aware of his teammates.

Caleb loved soccer and learned so much.  It was neat to watch him be a part of a team sport.  This league is amazing.  They got to keep their cute uniforms with socks and received a water bottle and were rewarded with a brand new soccer ball.  We will most definitely continue doing sports with Upward.

Caleb's Kindergarten teacher, Ms. Folwell, came to his last game.  It was so fun to have her with us!

Caleb and our friend Ryan with our great coaches, Marcus and Cameron.  I was so proud of these coaches.  They sure tried hard and were extremely patient and kind with the kids.  I am sure it wasn't easy for two High School soccer players to lose so much but they were really great.

 

We love soccer (much to Dad's chagrin).  Dad is voting for baseball next, but Mom thinks that it is too boring for now. Maybe later.  We will see who wins out!

April Caleb-isms

This month wasn't very full of funny Caleb moments.  Just a pretty ordinary month, I guess.  I do have one silly story to share for this month, and then I thought of another story I recently told some people that has not been recorded yet.  So I want to record that story as well.  I never thought I would forget some of these cute things he says, but I do and so I need to write it down.

Caleb had just turned 3 when we were going through our second round of in-vitro.  It was a rough time for our family.  Brydon was trying to interview for Medical School and my body didn't handle the intense fertility treatments well.  We didn't want to involve Caleb in the in-vitro process but because of everything that was going on, he was.  We also had appointments every other day to the doctors and Brydon had to administer up to 4 shots daily on me, and so he eventually learned we were trying to have a baby and were to trying answer his sweet prayers.  During that time, we had discussed that babies were gifts from our Heavenly Father and lived in heaven before they came to us.  When both rounds of in-vitro failed, we were devastated and informed Caleb that we were not able to have a baby.  A few days later I was sitting down to get some work done and Caleb walked up to me with one of his play cell phones.
Caleb:  "Mom, it's for you."
Mom:  "Hello! Hi how are you?"
Caleb:  "NO, Mom you have to yell that them!"
Mom:   "Why do I need to do that?"
Caleb:  "Because it's Jesus and you need to yell at him."
Mom:  "Why do I need to yell at Jesus?  I don't want to yell at Jesus."
Caleb:  "Because Jesus has our babies in heaven and he won't let us have them!  I am mad at Him."
Mom:  (Cries and gives him a hug)
Caleb refused to pray for 2 weeks after that.  He wouldn't pray for anything.  We tried to be patient and understanding and healed together as a family.  We did not have the heart to pray for a baby.  Finally when he began to pray again, we were shocked to hear. "Heavenly Father, bless us with a baby.".  When we asked him why he was praying for a baby again, he said "Because I STILL want a baby!".  That was one of those moments, when a 3 year old displays far more faith and understanding then I knew possible.  When Christ commanded us to "become as little children", I watch my son's daily faith and know why He said that.

Now for the humorous side of my son.  One day while riding in the car, Caleb randomly asked, "Who is going to be at the funeral when the last person dies?".  To that his parents mumbled a bit about how that really isn't anything to worry about and we didn't know.  After pondering for a few minutes, he declared, "I think angels and Jesus will be at the funeral.  Don't you think so?  I want to be the last person to die.  I think I really will be!  Really!"
So if you have ever pondered who will be attending the funeral of the last person to die on Earth, now you know!! 

Happy May!

A New Project to Try

I need to post of picture of this so it will help us be motivated to get it done.  We recently have needed to change our TV armoire.  We had a few ideas and were fortunate enough to be given a free china hutch from some friends.  It is beautiful solid oak.  We don't need the top of the hutch but we plan on refurbishing this into an entertainment center.  We have never done anything like this before, so it is going to be interesting to see how it turns out.  My long term substituting has made it more difficult to work on, but we are hoping it won't take us too long.  We are almost done stripping the stain off. 

So wish us luck on our first refurbishing project!  I am excited and very curious to see how turns out!