Sincere started soccer practice today. Now he is youngest one by far. Most of them are a year or year and half older then he is but I know he doesn't have problems getting along with older kids and he needs a physical outlet for some of that pint up energy.
Today he spent half the day as a spider but by the time he got to the field he was a dragon. And the dragon wasn't to happy about his shin guards. But besides that everything was going good until we got out of the car and he saw the cool playground in front of the soccer field. Sigh. So in true Sincere fashion he spent the whole time fixated on the park. He would kick the ball once and say "I am done can we go to the playground now." And then plop on the ground. He did this 40 times in the course of a 30 minute practice.
He also spent a lot of time using his hands to line up the ball perfectly before he kicked it which caused him to be way behind all the other kids during the warm up drills. But he made it down to the end even though it took a while for him to get there.
During the game we had a lot of Sincere shine through. He made the first goal (Go Sincere) but then proceeded to have a melt down, run off the field and plop down in the grass because the ball they were using was the one he had during the warm ups. With his bottom lip out he said "I am sad." I asked him why he said "That's my ball they have." So I tired to explain that's how soccer works and put him back out there. He spent the rest of the game having his own game on one side of the field after the kids got another ball. Every couple kicks he told me he was done and wanted to go the playground.
After we finished and I got him strapped in the car he looks up and says "I had a good time playing Soccer mommy." THIS KID!
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