Sophie's First Soccer Game

 

August 15th was Sophie's first soccer game. She has been very excited to play and to have Mike be the coach.  After practicing for a while the game was about to begin. The girls lined up on the field with the coaches and refs.  Suddenly Sophie comes running off the field screaming like someone had cut off her arm. I make eye contact with her panicked face and she started to run from me too.  I go chasing after her and then the ref comes chasing after both of us.  I catch up with Sophie just as the ref catches up with us. I hear the ref say, "I'm sorry it's ok, you don't need to take your earrings out!" REALLY, earrings? Oh boy, I tried not to laugh as I calmed her down.  I told her that she could wear them for tonight but that for next week she would need to take them out.

Sophie has always been a little scared that if I take out her earring that it will hurt like when she had them pierced the first time.  She gets freaked out if I even touch or look at them too closely.  It has been almost 2 years since she had them pierced.  

After the game we got in the car and Sophie realized that she has lost one of her earrings.  She says to us, it came out and didn't even hurt. We then proceeded to Claire's were she picked out new earrings. She was nerves as I switched out her earrings and asked if I would need to make a new hole for the replacement ones.  I reassured she that it would be the same hole and wouldn't hurt.  After she said I know you told me before that it didn't hurt to change my earrings but sometimes I don't listen to you.

Despite all the drama, Sophie's game went really well and she had a great time! Plus she is really fast. We are excited to see her grow and learn more.    

 

Addie wanted in on the action.  Anything Sophie is doing, Addie want to do too.  The funny thing was Addie is AWESOME.  She was dribbling the ball around the girls and kicking it into the goal.  She can't play until next fall, but I know she will kick some butt. Naturally Talented.