The BIG Game...and the rest of the weekend!

This weekend was a jam packed one for us. First Kaylee had a birthday party to attend for a friend in her class at school. It was a fun party in the children's area at The Grace downtown. I think Kaylee's favorite part was driving the car. ( and eating the cake too of course) Kaylee also had two soccer games to play due to one being cancelled last weekend. She was so excited to have her "Butterflies" uniform on for the first time. It is about three sizes too big like all the other girls but that just makes it all the more adorable. The first game was played on Saturday. Coach James is so good with the girls. You can see the team warming up in this picture. The famous "Butterfly" stretch. The best part of playing at this age is that there is no pressure. No score is kept. All the girls get an equal amount of playing time. Also at the end of the season all the girls get the same trophy.
You can see in this picture they are getting a little pep talk.) They actually split each team into two teams -- so that two games are going on at the same time and all the girls get to play. Once, Kaylee got the ball and got to dribbling so well that she just kept going past the goal, onto the adjacent field where the other half of the team was playing, made a right turn and kept going through the middle of that game. It was some great dribbling, though.

Our favorite part of the game was toward the end. The drama was high because the score was tied (at least we think it was, no one was actually keeping score). Kaylee's feet got tangled with an opponent and Kaylee went down (only the second fall!!). The other girl reached out a hand and helped her up. Then a second girl on the other team joined Kaylee and the first girl in the all important job of dusting the grass off of Kaylee's uniform. All three girls were bent at the waist and dusting Kaylee's socks while the ball was on the other end of the field. It was a priceless moment that Cary was actually able to catch on film. After the uniform was sufficiently clean, Kaylee and the second girl noticed that they were both number 11. So you see each of them taking turns spinning around showing each other the number on their back and talking about who knows what. It was a proud moment for me because she showed that she is definitely my daughter by being more interested in the "social" aspect than the game.

Sunday's game was even better. Kaylee began to get the hang of things and actually assisted one of her teammates in scoring a goal. She even was able to stop the ball and turn it around to the direction of her team's goal. Yeah!! We even made it through the whole game without her saying she was tired or thirsty. Now she cannot wait for the next game. We cannot wait either!! We are so proud of our little athlete.

Now on to Campbell. She is crawling everywhere she wants to go. That does not mean that she will not just sit there and pitch a fit if she is tired of moving though. She made it in the nursery on Sunday for the whole class time without me being paged! When I went to pick her up they said that she only cried once when she hit her head and they put her in the swing. Evidently she really liked the swing because when they tried to move her to a table for class time she would have nothing to do with it. So they put her back in the swing and she went to sleep. I said whatever works but I think it is funny we do not even have a swing at home. Here is a picture from the game. Campbell enjoyed supporting Kaylee with her friend Kaitlyn. They were so cute watching from the sidelines. Occassionally Kaitlyn tried to sneak on the field which was so funny. I am sure by next year I will be chasing Campbell off the field and Leslie can laugh at me:)Campbell is such a happy baby most of the time. She loves to watch Kaylee all of the time though. I love my girls!!

Sorry for the long post...hope you all had a great weekend too:)