Colorado Blue Sharks- Game 1

Gavin started a Pre-K soccer league last Saturday. He is so very excited to be playing the 8 team games, and to have a cool uniform. His team was assigned the color of Colorado Blue, and then picked their team name- SHARKS. There are 20 Pre-K teams in the league so it was pretty funny to see all the varieties of colors that the rec center had to come up with for all the teams. We didn't have any friends our age who were signing up so Gavin is making all new friends on this team, which I think is good for him, and he is too excited about playing to even notice.

Highlights from Game 1:
Unofficial score of the game- Sharks 2, Lime Green 0
number of goals score by Gavin... 2.
Number of parents on the sidelines to ask me- "How old is your son?"... 4
There is no goalie in these games, but twice Gavin jumped in front of the Lime goal and blocked their shots. One of the other dads that coaches some 1st graders was loving this and cheering so loud for Gavin every time.
He had a couple of really nice fast breaks.Watching Gavin line up with the other kids to run a few kicking drills before the game... Can you tell which kid is mine?

This picture seriously cracks me up, but I promise Gavin wasn't knocking kids down for the ball. This little guy was just trying so hard, but the soccer ball came up well above his knee, and I think he was almost tripping on his shorts.

I am sure there will be plenty more action shots and videos to come. There are 7 more games coming up. One thing I have to love about Gav, is that even though he was the only one to score the entire game, he came home and told Caleb that his team lost since Lime was such a fast team. And even though, his own team kept inadvertently blocking his kicks by just being in front of the ball half the time, he didn't even notice and just had a great time. It's going to be fun to watch.
(In my defense, the games are played in the field house, so the pictures are a bit blurry from the weird lighting.)