Soccer Starts

Today was the first day back at soccer games.  Levi plays for the Rangers U7 United.  The coach sent the schedule around with the significantly more apt name of the U7 Untied.  I am thinking that it was a Freudian slip!  The team is regularly needing their laces tied and frankly their play is regularly becoming untied.  That said; today they played like legends.  They are spreading out and passing to each other.  They are calling for the ball and actually kicking it well.  They won 10:1.  Today we played the U7 Hearts and many of the team were friends, so it made the watching infinitely more fun as well.  The kids all know each other and are just as happy to celebrate the other team's goals as they are to celebrate their own.  It really is a fun morning, watching Levi and his friends have fun and sipping coffee!

We got there early enough to watch the lower ages as well and it was a good reminder as we arrived, because all you really hear from the sidelines for those games is;

"Wrong way!  Go the other way!"

They are beautiful but I find it a joy to watch the kids kicking with much more intent, understanding much more about what they are doing when they kick and why. 

This afternoon, we went to a house warming about twenty minutes across town and Levi was pretty much bored until a kid arrived with his parents.  Levi and he recognized each other instantly (Of course, I didn't recognise either Mum or Dad).  It was a boy from his class at school.  It is amazing how small a town Brisbane, or North Brisbane really is!  Then it was incredibly hard to get him to come home at all.