......GOAL......

Today was Hunter's first soccer game and he was awesome! Stephen and I were quite surprised by how well he played and that he was interested in the entire game. During tee ball season Hunter played well, but it did not keep his attention for the entire time. He would get upset when he could not get the baseball and he was always running after the ball. Soccer gives him the opportunity to chase after the ball and to work really hard. He could keep the ball between his feet and the only problem that he had was turning the ball around to go down the field. When the game first started he fell a couple of times fighting for the ball and he would take his time getting up. At half time Stephen and I told him he had to jump right back up and go after the ball. He was so cute everytime that he would get the ball and kick it down the field he would always look to make sure that his Daddy and I were watching him and we would give him a thumbs up or praise him and he would reply "kank you" or simply "kanks".

 He was playing against one of his classmates and everytime Tristen had the ball Hunter would run behind him and not try to get the ball back from him. When Hunter had the ball Tristen would run beside him and neither one would take the ball from each other. Finally Hunter had taken the ball from one of the opponents players and he ran it down the field and scored a goal. We were so proud of him! He really played a good game and had fun the entire game.