Caden's First Soccer "Season"

The girls in our playgroup all signed up for a real league...practice once a week and a game once a week, uniforms, etc.  The boy moms opted for something a little more low key.  Caden, and a few of his friends, played Small Fry Soccer at the local YMCA.  It was perfect, just six weeks.  The first four weeks were practice and learning skills, and then the last two weeks, they played a game.  The first several weeks, Caden insisted that I stay on the field with him.  But by week 5 and 6, he did great.

Caden does a lot of pretend play.  He pretends to be different general people (lawnmower men, construction worker men, etc.), but he also loves to pretend to be Ms Leanna, his teacher at school, and during soccer, he loved to pretend to be Coach Jasmine.  He got a whistle from a birthday party favor bag a few weeks ago, and he wears it around his neck and gives me instructions on soccer.  Here's a pic of Coach Jasmine, Jack, Clay, and Caden.

 

Caden dribbling the ball down the field.