Game On!

Finally! Our little soccer super stars finally had a game. Want to know who was more excited? Well, that's certainly debatable. Soccer Chick was doing her fist pumps for sure. But The Hub wasn't far behind. Plotting strategy, circles "x"s and scribbling "o"s on his whiteboard. Fired. Up.

Game 1: Make up game, played Friday night. Um. Not exactly pretty. First game of the season, end of the week, can you say "rusty". It's alright, friends. We're just getting warmed up. Fans/parents on the side did our best not to cringe or scream too loudly. We went toe-to-toe with our opponents following their first goal. We got stuck somewhere around goal 4 for us. While they went on to score two more. Play of the game: free kick for them and our poor girl, new at goalie and nervous beyond belief. She would have had to have been a 300 pound giant to catch that ball. Needless to say those opponents of ours jumped from 5-6 and we just couldn't catch them. The girls took home their first loss of the season.

But, The Hub devised a plan. Figuring out that his strategy of strength in the front left him defenseless at times caused him to shake things up a bit. Game 2: Saturday. The girls took the win! 1-0 with no less than 8 great goal attempts. Each of them slightly outside the net, two of them just above. Nonetheless, we dominated the field and our defense kicked some pa-too-ey. How did The Hub celebrate the win? Came home and plotted his "post-game walk through" for the girls at practice on Monday. Seriously. And plotted his game 3 strategy. Important stuff.

Play of the game: The Hub throwing himself face first into the grass, clipboard strewn about, after a slight miss of the net by one of our goal shots. Classic drama. He doesn't do much quietly.

"Youngest" moment to put a smile on your face: He buys one of those animals on a stick w/ a lever at the bottom that opens the jaw of the plastic animal. His happened to be a dolphin. At church yesterday, waiting for service to start he puts his long silly sticky slap toy in the mouth of the dolphin, extends the dolphin's head out in front of us and makes gagging noises. He opens the mouth of the dolphin and the string begins to fall out. It appears to drip out although this isn't a liquid. Youngest continues making these mock gagging noises until the dolphin drops the whole sticky toy thing out of it's mouth onto the floor. Total appearance of the dolphin gagging, choking and finally throwing up something gooey. Dis.Gus.Ting. Most hilarious moment ever. How did he think of that? Who knows. He's an original.