For her age the kids play 3 on 3, with no goalie, they don't keep score, and only have 30 min games (their weekly practice is supposed to be the 20 min before the game). The first week they must have played the best team in the league - a team that will go after the ball! There wasn't much action from our girls. If I remember right, Kiersten was the only one who scored a goal for our team, and she kicked it in the other team's goal!
But, our girls did do pretty well with throwing the ball in. The other team had to have their coach hold their feet down so they wouldn't move when they threw the ball in.
However, in the last few weeks we've seen such a change in Kiersten. Three Saturdays ago she was so proud of herself for scoring 2 goals. We didn't have the heart to tell her that to actually score a goal she had to kick them through the yellow goal cones, and not the flat orange out-of-bounds cones. Then the next week she scored 3 actual, real goals, which I missed because I was at the cannery. So we'd talked about it all week and she told me she was going to score 3 goals again this week (the Saturday we just had) so I could see her score a goal. She was on a roll this past Saturday, not only did she score the 3 goals we talked about, she scored 5 of the 7 total goals of the game! We're really not sure what happened to her, but she was unstopable!
Today she told me she wants to score 10 goals next time because "it's fun to score goals." That being said, she also still prefers practices to games because "there are too many people at the games." Of course, now that she has discovered how to score goals maybe she'll decide that games aren't all that bad.
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Fun pics, Kristie. Looks like you had a fun Halloween. Your kids are getting so big.
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