First time soccer MOM

While Thayne was gone this summer the kids played soccer for the first time. I put Indi and Josie on the same team and Jaed joined a team with his cousin, Kassi. It was so much fun to watch them and laugh and shout "Good Job!" every week. I would call Thayne on the phone every time one of them make a great play or did something funny so that he could be apart of it as much as possible.

Indi was the best little soccer player ever. She was so much shorter than the rest of the team but her little legs were running the whole time. She kept up with the group surrounding the ball and even got her foot on the ball several times. By the time the game was over, her face was as red as a tomato. Indi did a move I called the "swim" while she played soccer. She would get close to the mob of kids surrounding the ball and then she would start doing the breast stroke with her arms until she got right on the ball. She even managed to push a few kids down when they got in the way of her "swim". I laughed so hard during her games, I think I even cried a couple of times. Sometime she was run to fast that she'd fall but she never cried! She just got back up and started running again. The only time she did cry was when she had to substitute out to give someone else a turn. No explanation was good enough for her! Indi loved her coach. Almost every game she would stop at least one time in the middle of the field and run over to coach and give him a quick hug and then run back to the ball. It was so dang cute!

Josie....well..soccer wasn't her thing. She got so excited to get her uniform on and seemed excited to play while we were driving to the soccer game but once we got there she lost all interest. I tried to tell her that her team needed her and she would attempt to play but after about 30 seconds she would fall down on the field and look like she was dying. When I'd yell at her to get up she always said "I can't my legs are tired!". The coach tried her as the goalie but she was entertaining herself by wrapping herself up in the net, picking grass with her back to the game, and I even saw a few dance steps. It reminded me of basketball last fall and how she just didn't show much interest to that sport either. Thayne and I had to finally come to grips that our Josie probably would never be a team sport player. On the last game Josie came and said "Mommy, don't make me play soccer anymore, ok?". I promised her I wouldn't and asked her if she would rather do dance which made her day.

Jaed had a great time playing. I don't think I have ever seen that kid run like he ran during the games. In his first game he made a goal. I was so excited......except for the attitude that followed. He started acting like he was the big man on the team as well as the coach. One time I heard his coach said, "Hmm, I miss counted we need another player on the field.", and as the coach was looking around at the team on the side lines Jaed said, "Kassi, it's your turn to play. Come on in!". That obviously wasn't who the coach was going to pick because he said, "Jaed are you the coach or am I?". I was so embarrassed! I have called him "Mr. Bossy Boots" since he was a toddler cuz he's so dang bossy. The kid is doomed. Thayne and I are pretty bossy people and Jaed obviously got that gene twice. I hope his wife can put him in his place :)> . Anyways, even with his "Big Man on Campus" attitude he seemed to enjoy the games. He even asked to play again.


MR. BOSSY BOOTS!



This is Jaed and his cousin Kassi. I think they both enjoyed being on the same team.



Indi's uniform was more like a dress then a shirt. I had to buy her new black shorts because the ones they gave her came down to her ankles.

Back together!

Thayne's been home for three weeks and we are soooo dang happy. Two day after he got home we drove to Washington State to visit my sister for two in a half weeks and then came back to my Mom's house. I had a lot of fun with my sister and the kids had a blast with their cousins. Unfortunately, Thayne was having too many allergy problems to really enjoy himself completely but he stuck it out and tried to have a good time! His boss in D.C., asked him to work from home for him through the next month or so which is a huge blessing since we had no other income. He also gave Thayne a ton of contacts in the Seattle area sent his own personal recommendations to all of them. Meanwhile, we're trying to be patient and get into some kind of routine here at my Mom's house until we know exactly where we will be headed.

So the day after Thayne came home we went and had an ultrasound to find out the sex of our fifth child. It's another GIRL!!! Thayne was a bit disappointed but pulled himself together quickly. I was thrilled!! I can't believe I'm going to have four girls now. When we told the kids, the girls were really excited but Jaed was sad. He almost cried. I felt so bad for him. Thayne pulled him into his arms and talked to him about it. By the end of the discussion he seemed to be tolerating the idea of having another sister. Whenever he tells people that I"m having a baby and it's a girl he always has a frown on his face, though. I hope that when the baby comes he'll forget that it's a girl and just be excited that's we have a baby.

Here were a few of Thayne's responses when the nurse said it was a girl:

"WHAT??!"
"Are you sure?"
"Four girls? This is getting stupid!"
"Someone is out to get me!"
"It's a conspiracy!"
"I guess it's a good thing we make cute girls!"

I couldn't stop laughing after she told us it was a girl. I was laughing so much I couldn't even comfort Thayne. I felt bad.....well.....a little. I can remember being a young teenager and hoping that when I became a mom I could have all girls. I didn't think it was possible since my husband comes from a family of a lot of boys, but the girl power came through!

Anyways, now the name game starts. We have a couple of names we're throwing around but we're still looking.