This soccer season has been a doozie! Logan is playing on 2 teams and Aiden is playing on 1. We usually have at least 1, usually 2 games on Saturday and usually 3 on Sundays. I’m learning a lot about driving around the western Chicago suburbs for sure! Brady’s “season” ended last week for Pro Academy. He had Friday practices and early Saturday morning scrimmages. Brian took his camera along one day…we’re just missing shots of Logan so…we’ll get those this weekend between the 5 games we have! ha!

Aiden and Brady soccer highlights:

Brian took some cool shots of Aiden’s team (minus our good friend AJ) in their “October” socks in honor of breast cancer awareness month.

 

 

 

Aiden usually ends up covering like the tallest guys on the opposing team. It makes me giggle. He’s one of the 2 shortest (by far) and the youngest kid on his team.

Hold on…I’m adjusting my pink!

 

Taking a header!

Kona the sideline fan (usually trying to get at any other dogs that might be at the game or hunting for left-over snacks under the bleachers at Brady’s practice field)

Whoa whoa whoa – flagrant foul!

 

 

Our buddy Matt in goal

 

4-leaf clover total count is now 21

7-leaf clover count is now 1!

I drove them to school this morning due to rain, but the drop-off line wasn’t moving so I let them jump out right before the cross-walk. Aiden got out of the car, looked down, literally bent over, picked one up and passed it back through the window to me. Soccer was cancelled this afternoon so he went back to school with a couple of friends, after he finished his homework of course, to hunt for more. He came back with 4 more four-leaf clovers and a seven-leaf clover! His class has an auction tomorrow to “spend” all the “teacher dollars” they have earned on stuff from the classroom treasure chest. Aiden is offering up a couple of his clovers for the auction.

Some of today’s find:

it’s a blurry picture, but there are literally 7 leafs on this thing! Aiden has also taken my advice and plans to be a leprechaun for Halloween this year!

I think Aiden is a leprechaun.

Evidence:

• has elf-like ears (those could be from me, but still)
• really likes rainbows…SUPER likes rainbows actually
• has now legitimately found 16 4-leaf clovers in his life time (2 just yesterday outside of his school, one before he went in for the day and one when he came out at dismissal!)

he even has a book…we try to save them, but sometimes they break