Week 125
This was Olive’s first week at Soccer Shots. We’ve been talking a lot about how she’ll be taking soccer lessons soon and she’s been a bit apprehensive about it. When I bring it up, she likes to tell me that Ryan and I will watch her play and I reassure her that we will be right there cheering her on.
When Saturday morning arrived, she was excited in the car about going to soccer but as we got closer to the fields she started to feel more nervous. However, when we arrived she simply dashed onto the field without looking back. I was so proud of the way she followed instructions and listened carefully to her coach.
I love watching Olive grow and noticing the ways her personality has been set since birth and what traits are slowly starting to alter. It was no surprise that Olive enjoyed the drills at soccer the most. She is still an observer and tackles most things with precision. She is not a child who tries something over and over again or who will enjoy practicing. Instead she likes to watch and copy exactly what she sees. Running the tick tock drills, kicking the ball into the goal, doing the airplane maneuver, those are all things she could observe and then repeat and she was happy to do so.
But, when things are chaotic or it is unclear how to replicate what she sees, she loses interest quickly, which is why the scrimmage at the end of practice is her least favorite thing to do. Halfway through the game, Olive took off her jersey, put it in the pile, ran over to us, shrugged her shoulders and said, “I don’t know.” To her, these scrimmages have no order, they don’t make sense to her and she doesn’t want to be part of it. We’ve had several more lessons since this first one and I’ve encouraged her to stick with it and try to be part of the team. We’ve heard a lot of “it’s too hard” and “I too little” which are both true. Though she’s not the smallest in the group, she is definitely not the fastest and gets beat to the ball all the time.
Olive very much wants to take dance in the fall and I think she will truly enjoy it. Ballet is something that appeals to her personality. I want her to experience team sports as she gets older, but right now, she seems to be drawn to individual endeavors.
While there are lots of ways that Olive’s personality has stayed the same, there are also some new traits beginning to emerge. She’s becoming more bold and spends less time hanging back in new situations. She’s more likely to join in the fun she sees around her and to go up to strangers and ask them questions. She’s also becoming much more assertive and has no problem expressing what she wants or needs, but that’s a post for another day.
Week 125
This was Olive’s first week at Soccer Shots. We’ve been talking a lot about how she’ll be taking soccer lessons soon and she’s been a bit apprehensive about it. When I bring it up, she likes to tell me that Ryan and I will watch her play and I reassure her that we will be right there cheering her on.
When Saturday morning arrived, she was excited in the car about going to soccer but as we got closer to the fields she started to feel more nervous. However, when we arrived she simply dashed onto the field without looking back. I was so proud of the way she followed instructions and listened carefully to her coach.
I love watching Olive grow and noticing the ways her personality has been set since birth and what traits are slowly starting to alter. It was no surprise that Olive enjoyed the drills at soccer the most. She is still an observer and tackles most things with precision. She is not a child who tries something over and over again or who will enjoy practicing. Instead she likes to watch and copy exactly what she sees. Running the tick tock drills, kicking the ball into the goal, doing the airplane maneuver, those are all things she could observe and then repeat and she was happy to do so.
But, when things are chaotic or it is unclear how to replicate what she sees, she loses interest quickly, which is why the scrimmage at the end of practice is her least favorite thing to do. Halfway through the game, Olive took off her jersey, put it in the pile, ran over to us, shrugged her shoulders and said, “I don’t know.” To her, these scrimmages have no order, they don’t make sense to her and she doesn’t want to be part of it. We’ve had several more lessons since this first one and I’ve encouraged her to stick with it and try to be part of the team. We’ve heard a lot of “it’s too hard” and “I too little” which are both true. Though she’s not the smallest in the group, she is definitely not the fastest and gets beat to the ball all the time.
Olive very much wants to take dance in the fall and I think she will truly enjoy it. Ballet is something that appeals to her personality. I want her to experience team sports as she gets older, but right now, she seems to be drawn to individual endeavors.
While there are lots of ways that Olive’s personality has stayed the same, there are also some new traits beginning to emerge. She’s becoming more bold and spends less time hanging back in new situations. She’s more likely to join in the fun she sees around her and to go up to strangers and ask them questions. She’s also becoming much more assertive and has no problem expressing what she wants or needs, but that’s a post for another day.