Ammon the soccer man

Our conversations each day this week have gone the same way just on a different day:

Ammon : "Mom what day is it?"
Mom: "Tuesday."
Ammon "How many more days until Saturday?"
Mom: "Count them. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday then Saturday."
Ammon: "4 more days until my soccer game!"

The next day it was the same conversation just with less day to count. And sometimes we had this same conversations more then once a day!

You could say a little guy in our house is 

EXCITED 

for his 1st soccer game.

This morning without any urging, we had 2 boys up dressed and ready to go play in their 1st games of the season well before it was time to go. Ammon didn't even complain that I hadn't bleached his pink trimmed shin guards white yet. He told me "My socks cover them anyways." That was so NOT the reaction I got the previous week when I told him that his old shin guards were to small and asked if he could wear Corrine's old ones instead of buying new ones.
Last week Ammon came home from practice and told me right away "I got to see the goalie gloves!" 2nd grade is the 1st year they get to have goalies and their goals get really BIG.

Today he got the chance to wear those big goalie gloves and even bigger shirt and play goalie. Never has a goal seemed bigger then when your 7 year old is standing in it ready to block any ball that comes his way.

Ammon wasn't afraid of the ball at all. He stood ready, followed the ball from one side of the field to the other side and jumped on it when it came to him. He only had a few chances to stop the ball and one of those times, he went to get it and it looked like he had it, but it went right through his legs. He didn't let that get him down and he ended quarter as goalie with a smile on his face asking when he could play again!

In the field he has gotten more aggressive and moves really well with the ball. He knows how to get the ball going down the field and how to pass it when he gets in trouble.

Last year there were many times when we'd need to remind Ammon to stop talking in the middle of the game and play soccer, this year he does less talking. I thought this picture of him being silly with his friends on the field was cute.

It's so fun to see him enjoying soccer so much and to watch him improving each year.