First Soccer Practice

Today, Dalton had his first soccer practice. I was a little unsure about him playing soccer because I'm really not all that familiar with all the rules and Shane isn't real crazy about him playing because he just doesn't like the sport in general. But Dalton has always enjoyed playing with the soccer ball and net in our backyard, and he said that he wanted to play this year so I figured we'd give it a try. The practice went well at first when the kids had their own ball to kick around by themselves but after that, everything went downhill for Dalton. Next, they had a little 3 on 3 scrimmage. I think Dalton has never heard the phrase, "There's no I in Team" because he was not happy about other people scoring and other people taking the ball away from him. Whew! He had a bit of a meltdown right there on the soccer field. He kept saying he wanted to just quit. Ugh! I guess he's always been so used to doing whatever he wants to do with the ball at home and making Colby do whatever he tells him to do. Hopefully he'll learn a lot about teamwork and will learn to be happy whenever his team scores or does something well and not just whenever he scores.

Here's Dalton being a little dramatic apparently upon realizing that he wasn't the one to score. He's the one in the gray shirt and black shorts.