Fall Soccer

The last two Saturdays of September and four Saturdays in October we spent watching Jayni play soccer for the first time on a team. Here she is on her first day getting a pep talk from their coach. We were really lucky to have a good coach that showed up every game. Most teams didn't have consistent coaches. I also think this is the only day that all 6 kids showed up on the same day.

I really can't say we watched her "play". She did a lot of this...

...and my personal favorite, a lot of that.

Mason would do this...

...and then that. Aren't these guys handsome?

But at the last game, Jayni was doing a little of this...

...and some of that.

Jayni's coach really tried to get her to score a goal the last game. She was scared when there would be a group around the ball. She had many opportunities that game to kick in a goal but was too scared. I'm not quite sure if soccer is her sport yet. She did do a lot of dancing and cheering though, sorry Tom!

Fun at the Park

Jayni absolutely loves the park! She wants to go EVERYDAY!! That would be fine if I felt a little more comfortable going there without Tom. I haven't heard of anything bad happening at the park but there are teenagers that loiter around and just make me nervous. And there was the first time Tom and I took the kids to the park and some guy took his car onto the grass and started driving around erratically and spinning doughnuts. As you can see from this picture, there's graffiti and there's garbage all over the place.

Well, we decided to take Jayni to the park Sunday afternoon. She enjoyed herself and I had a good time playing with our new camera. Unfortunately, Jayni couldn't use the slide because it was all sticky from a popsicle being left on it. We tried to clean it up but we didn't have enough baby wipes to do the job. She loves to look through the binoculars.

 I took a cute shot of Jayni with Mason sitting in his stroller in the background.

Some boys then came and asked Tom to play a game of soccer with them. Of course he was more than happy to. Now, I usually hate it when Tom does this because then he doesn't spend time with Jayni and I feel that defeats the purpose of all of us going to the park, but this time he included Jayni in the game and it was so cute!!

Jayni soon got tired of me taking pictures and asked me to stop.

Jayni was then tired of playing soccer and wanted to swing before we left.