For those of you who didn't already know, Lacie and Leslie signed up to play soccer for the YMCA this spring. They are on a team of six nearly-five year old girls - Lacie, Leslie, Emily H. from school, and Emily M. and Bella from church. When you create a team, the Y really likes for you to find your own coach, so guess who the soccer coach is?!?! None other than Del Johnson! I think Del was as excited as the girls were for the season to start.... He went out and bought each of the girls a ball, cones for practice, a clipboard, and.... a whistle. His favorite thing to do at practice blow the whistle. All of the girls - being avid High School Musical fans - named their team the Wildcats. And just like the real team does in the movie, before the game, they put their hands together and yell, "What team? WILDCATS!"
Their uniforms are so cute. They have a red jersey for home games, and a white jersey for away games. Here they are getting their pre-game instructions from the referees. I love this picture because they all look so little, yet so grown up at the same time.
Their first game got called at half time on account of rain, but they at least got a little playing in. Here's a great picture of Leslie running after the ball.
She even scored a goal! Lacie also played very well. While she didn't kick the ball as often, she ran after it with gusto... and she didn't cry one time - which is a great improvement over their first attempt at soccer two years ago!
Here is a picture of 4 of the 6 girls on the team. Emily H and Bella are MIA at this point. Soccer lasts for 8 Saturdays, so I will keep you posted on the latest developments. While I don't anticipate any future soccer stars, they are definitely having fun and getting great exercise all at the same time!
Lacie jumping on the trampoline.
Leslie perfecting her head stand.
Leslie on the balance beam.
Lacie on the parallel bars.
Their Build a Bear cake. They picked it out from the "birthday cake menu" at Target.
Blowing out the candles.
Once we left school, we went to Del's birthday, where he had their big girl "no training wheels" birthday scooters for them.
After dinner, the girls wanted to walk around their favorite stores in the Boardwalk, one of which happens to be Build a Bear Workshop. Since they had already gotten their scooters as presents, they said they "just wanted to look" and not buy anything. However, once we got in there, Leslie went up to the lady who works there adn said, "Today's my birthday. I heard that on your birthday, Build a Bears are free!" That got a nice chuckle out of the lady!We ended the evening with some after-dinner ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. All in all, the girls had a great day!
For those of you who didn't already know, Lacie and Leslie signed up to play soccer for the YMCA this spring. They are on a team of six nearly-five year old girls - Lacie, Leslie, Emily H. from school, and Emily M. and Bella from church. When you create a team, the Y really likes for you to find your own coach, so guess who the soccer coach is?!?! None other than Del Johnson! I think Del was as excited as the girls were for the season to start.... He went out and bought each of the girls a ball, cones for practice, a clipboard, and.... a whistle. His favorite thing to do at practice blow the whistle. All of the girls - being avid High School Musical fans - named their team the Wildcats. And just like the real team does in the movie, before the game, they put their hands together and yell, "What team? WILDCATS!"
Their uniforms are so cute. They have a red jersey for home games, and a white jersey for away games. Here they are getting their pre-game instructions from the referees. I love this picture because they all look so little, yet so grown up at the same time.
Their first game got called at half time on account of rain, but they at least got a little playing in. Here's a great picture of Leslie running after the ball. 
She even scored a goal! Lacie also played very well. While she didn't kick the ball as often, she ran after it with gusto... and she didn't cry one time - which is a great improvement over their first attempt at soccer two years ago! 
