June started soccer a few weeks ago with her buddies Kiki and Jaxon. It was a little rough at first - she went from being a star player on a mostly-4-year-old t-ball team, to being the runt newbie on a mostly-6-year-old soccer team. I tried to take some pictures at her first game, but she spent the whole game by the coach's side, wiping tears on her sleeves while she successfully dodged all of the action on the field. It broke my heart, and we thought about walking away from the sport altogether, but we decided to go back for one more week.
I have no idea what brought about the change, but June was a completely different girl this week. She ran her guts out, played some real defense, and even kicked the ball a few times. I'm so proud of Junie - she was still very scared, but she really gave it her all and ended up having a great time. Her team, the Wildcats, won both games on Saturday! Be proud Aunt Darby and Rylee!
Here's a little movie of June's goal kick (Wildcats are in blue), and her little buddy scoring a goal.
6 comments:
Way to go June! Haley has her good and bad days with soccer too! Haley told us that she saw you all yesterday after the game. She was very excited she saw you!
aawwwh. Way to go June! Mia Hamm II! :)
I can't believe I haven't checked your blog for a while and I've missed like 5 posts. Luckily I live by you to get play by play action.
Poor little Junie - I think she's doomed to be a runt with your genes though, Jess. Just Kidding!
Yeah Jess - you guys are in deep doo doo, We dropped and pretty penny at build a bear and the whole time we were freaking out (trying to not sound to cheap around all the other parents) we were cursing you Johnsons!
Tell Junie we think she kicks butt. And tell Winnie thanks for the thank you card. I LOVE that pic of her on the slide.
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