Five for Friday

1. We had Nathan's 4th soccer game last night (the only photo of the green machine, Reed wanted some mom time so the camera got put away). His team is a mismatched team with only 2 of the 6 players ever having played soccer before. They haven't won a game yet and up until last night it never bothered him (even one game excitedly saying, 'We lost again' to one of his friends as he passed thier game). He was a little down saying, 'we didn't even get one goal!'. I felt bad for him but that's all part of the experience, especially when you have such a young inexperienced team. We have a new coach and I think new coaches get the bottom of the barrel when it comes time to make the teams. It's hard not to think like that, because watching some of the other teams, you know they were stacked. I get bugged by it but what can you do?

~Reed enjoying his game snacks~

They are 6-7 for crying out loud! Our coach is laid back and positive and doesn't get negative with the kids. Some of the winning coaches not so much. Yelling at the kids, yelling at the kid refs. It's too much for me, I just want a 6 yr old to learn the game and have fun. Is that too much to ask? And once they know the game and play it well we can get competitive. But what do I know, I never played sports, ha!

2. We have a baby on the move (sort of). Reed loves when the kids leave the dvd cupboard open. He pulled out 20 movies while I was doing a haircut this morning. I just let him have at it. He was so happy making the mess. Not so happy when I shut the cupboard. In crawling news, he's getting closer to the real thing. Right now it's a roll all over, scoot backwards, get up on his knees and rock mode of travel but soon, really soon I think he'll be all over the place and I'm not sure I'm ready!

3. This fabulous friend brought our family a Conference basket. Inspired by a couple bloggers (I think), she filled a basket to the brim with candy, crayons, markers, coloring pages, a craft and more. My favorite part is the yellow pad of paper that says, 'Do you know what Presiden't Monson's favorite color is?' It's yellow, isn't that a cute idea? After she left from bringing it over, Dane could not take his eyes off of it. He kept going for scissors to cut it open. I told him it was for General Conference and he had to wait. He immediately said, 'well let's watch conference now then. I want to open this!'. This just might be the trick to keep him still during a few talks. Thanks for thinking of us!!

4. Today was picture day at school. I told the kids we needed to pick their outfits out so that we wouldn't have to go through it in the morning (I really should do this every night). I was definitely trying to sway their decisions on what to wear. I don't care if they match exactly but I like them to coordinate so that when they hang on the wall they 'go together'. Please tell me I'm not the only one that does this! Anyway, Nate started last night wanting to wear a tie. When I told him we don't have any ties to match his plaid shirts he started to cry. He said, you let me at kindergarten graduation so let me do it now. I had completely forgotten about his love for a plaid shirt and tie or I would have found him a better matching combo. He would not be swayed and after wise words from both Marion and Anna on how this will be a story for later, and that it doesn't really matter and he'll laugh about it one day, I gave in; he wore the shirt and tie (that don't really match). At breakfast this morning, the real reason on the tie wearing came out. He said when he wears a tie people tell him he looks like, 'a real man'. Ha, ha. I guess that's important even to a 1st grader. Love you Nate, you looked awesome in your tie.

5. Buddy has a new trick and I just love it!! (Please ignore the voice and it's loudness, it's the only way to get him to comply and perform his trick.)