Soccer: It's the New Thing

With the new year, new things are happening!  The good kind of new, not the scary, one-day-we'll-all-look-back-on-this-and-laugh-because-it-was-a-mistake, kind of new. At least I hope not.

But I digress.

My daughters are playing soccer.  There.  Good new, right? Yeah. They're having a blast, so yeah, good. Noodle was pretty nervous when she got to her first practice and realized she was the only girl on her team.  She got over it quickly.  Hopers is just happy to be running around an open space, kicking things.

Here they are, just before their first games. Incidentally, both girls had their first games at the exact same time on two fields right next to each other. And because their daddy was at work, he asked me to take video of their games. And how does a mother accomplish this? By standing in between the two fields and spinning back and forth, of course. Here is a sample of my awesome videography. 

(I'm especially fond of pondering the differences between 5-6 year-old soccer techniques and 8-11 soccer techniques.)