Soccer

2 of Ally’s good friends, Stella and Willow asked Ally to join  them on Saturday morning for “Bring a Friend Day”. Ally was nervous, but excited to try out soccer. She was kind of bummed this summer a few times because in her words “I’m not good at soccer…I don’t really know how to play” well it turns out she is pretty good. She scored 4 goals!!!! And this was the morning after Halloween and she went directly to ballet for an hour after soccer.

For the record we talk about how she could be good at things  but she would need to try them out and learn to be good – her friends play soccer once or twice a week, so they learned to be good and practice. Like Ally practices gymnastics and diving. In the moment of feeling inferior it never seems to help. But she had a blast on a very cold and rainy Saturday morning. Ally is wearing the blue hat with the long sleeve yellow fleece.

After the game with Stella and Violet.

We’ve talked about soccer – but right now Ally would rather stick with her gymnastics, swimming and ballet, and there is Sunday School too. There is only so much time in a week for activities. We were proud of her for trying it out.