Soccer

We are officially at the YMCA soccer field on Saturday mornings now. Ila is loving being on the soccer team and surprisingly the first day of practice she realized she had a couple of friends on the team. It is so cute to watch her out there. She won't take the ball from anyone but if she gets the ball she likes to dribble down the field and score...no goalies to speak of. She is very excited about the half-time snack. I'm sure all of you remember that being the best part of soccer, with the exception of Grandpa Les, who actually loved it (and still does) for the beauty of the game. I think Ila would make him proud. So far she has not gotten herself stuck in the goal net by trying to crawl through it in the middle of the game as one of her teammates did and she has not run off the field to play in the blackberry bushes mid-game as a few kids from her team did last week. She did look up in the sky as she was running down the field to check out the raven her friend Bodhi was screaming about. Lots of laughs from the sidelines and the kids are running and having fun...so for now, it is serving its purpose.