Soccer

Corbin has been playing his second season of soccer this fall. He actually has been doing a lot worse than last time, but having a blast doing it! We signed him up on the same team as his best little buddy that lives next door and I have been the assistant coach, so I think he has been distracted from the actual game. At one point we looked up to see him playing ring-around-the-rosies with the other Corbin and had to roll our eyes a little. He did tell us at one point that he doesn’t like getting the ball as much this time because there is another kid on his team that is faster than him and he says that he always takes the ball from him after he gets it even though they are on the same team. He doesn’t seem to realize that he did the same thing to the other kids on his team last season. Oh well, it is all part of learning the game I suppose. As long he tells us he is having fun, we will try to control our frustrations at watching him run around crazy on the field rather than playing soccer and just let him enjoy it!



At his last game he got to meet Leo the Lion from Real Salt Lake and thought it was sooo fun trying to get the ball past him and score a goal during their practice session. I am pretty sure it was the highlight of the season for him.


Afterwards they handed out ticket vouchers to attend a Real game in Sandy and we took Corbin down on the South Davis Rec night and they let him march out onto the field with all the other little league soccer kids. He loved it! They made us drop off our 4-year-old in a little entrance tunnel area and leave him there alone for about 45 minutes while we waited up in the bleachers for the game to start. Needless to say that idea made me a little nervous so I found another parent of one of the little kids and we told them to be friends and stick together and asked some middle school girls to make sure they stayed by them. We were a little surprised to see just how well our plan worked when we saw them march out holding hands and laughing together as they ran around the field, surround on all sides by the entire yellow girls’ team, herding them along. He did great and had fun, it is just getting hard to accept how big he is getting and learn to let go a little.