Soccer Days

Emma was super excited to play soccer....last Spring when Amanda was doing it. After her first day, she wanted to "skip it and do something else". But as she has stuck with it, she has grown to like it and has mastered many soccer moves.
Here she is demonstrating the wave.
And here, the twirl.
Here, the hop side-to-side. And just yesterday-YES. In a moment of insanity, I drug all of them out into the freezing, blustery, ear-numbing wind to a rookie soccer game. Luckily I re-gained whatever senses I still have and went home after 15LONGminutes of game time.-I saw her perfect the standstill. A move in which, as the whistle blows and her team-mates bustle around her, she will simply stand as still as she can, in hopes of becoming so stealth she'll be able to steal the ball away from the opposing team...if it ever gets back to the mid line where she is still standing.