Soccer...Jaxon

It has been really fun and busy around here recently. Soccer has started. Both of the kids are playing this year. They have not played soccer since I was pregnant with Averi and I was the coach. I know nothing about soccer....so this is a whole new experience for them.

Jaxon's team are the "Cheetahs". He is pretty good and has really enjoyed playing. He really gets in there and goes after the ball (totally different than last time). It is so fun to watch him play. In this first picture he is the goalie, that is why he is standing there staringout at the game.
Here is driving in for the goal.

Now if the weather around here would cooperate it would be way nicer. The whole week will be amazing weather and then come Saturday it seems to be windy and cold. Either way, this season is going to be a lot of fun.

Time

So, I got a new camera and have yet to figure out hooking it up to the computer so no pictures yet. But I do have a story from Jaxon.

Yesterday when I was taking the kids to school I was asking them if they were testing that day (a lot of the other classes are taking their end of level tests, etc.). Jaxon told me he didn't think so, so I asked him what the deal was with him needing to learn how to tell time? (He didn't know how and the rest of the kindergarten here already worked on it.)

He told me very matter of factly, "I already know how to tell time mom. It is just that the big hand has to stay at the twelve. If the big hand moves I don't have a clue what it is trying to say."

I was laughing a bit that he thought it would be sufficient to only know the straight up hours. And can you believe the nerve of that big hand...it moves!

Wrestling

Let me start this post off by saying that little kid wrestling is super funny. We get such a kick out of it. They don't really know what they are doing so they basically just roll around kinda hugging. Jaxon decided he would give it a try. I still don't know if he is that into it but he keeps asking to go to the tournaments so I guess he must think it is ok. The first tournament Courtney was out of town and Jax was pretty nervous not having his dad there. So we are waiting for it to start and he is walking around the outside of the mat and a little kid grabs him pulls him on to the mat and tackles him. He comes back up to the stands and starts crying and says he just wants to go home. I convinced him to try one match. Well he wrestled two and got pinned both times (I am not a very good wrestling coach). He then decided he was done and we forfeited the last match. I thought maybe he was done with the wrestling thing but he has since wrestled in two more tournaments. In both tournaments he has won on his weight class paper and received two gold medals. It seems all he needed was his dad coaching him. Oh, and knowing he gets a medal doesn't hurt anything either.