I'm Hooked

Well, the little guy made his debut this afternoon in soccer. Each team fields only three kids at a time, which actually works pretty well. Everyone gets in on the action this way. The field- along with the goal- is considerably smaller than regulation ones, but I think all the kids would contend that they did plenty of running today. The other interesting thing about the league is that they don't play a goalie...instead, there's a boundary circle around the goal that the kids are not allowed to enter. They all must kick from outside the circle. I'm guessing this might be an effort to not humiliate a little one by sticking him as goalie and letting the rest of the kids pummel him all day long with goal kicks. Josh's buddy Logan plays in the same league, and the two of them got to go head to head in their first game of the season today.

Considering that he hasn't stopped talking about it all day, I'd say Josh really enjoyed himself. He even scored a few goals too! His enthusiasm has convinced me that the game is pretty cool...although, there was a t-ball game going on at the same time on one of the other athletic fields, but I was pretty engrossed in my son's game that I rarely even glanced over there. Practice is this Monday, and I'm already looking forward to it.