Thursday, June 18, 2015

End of Soccer and Summer

Today is the penultimate day of school left in the year (Thank you Ms. Gulley for teaching me proper use of that word!).  I can't decide who is more excited: Nico because we have him signed up for a pretty sweet summer camp program with the park district or me because I can start riding my bike to work again- and I dont have to wake up at 545, snooze till 555 and then pull myself together to get Nico to school while Dave handles showering+dressing+and feeding The Nico.  Side note: My game is weak in the morning.

There is a kindergarten festival planned tomorrow- which should be lots of fun.  But I am not sure I am ready for my kid to be done with kindergarten.  Maybe I will write more about that tomorrow or this weekend... because I am kind of a mess thinking about it.  

Nico's last AYSO game of the season was this past weekend.  This season was really fun.  It was awesome watching Nico start to come into his own playing.  He loves goalkeeper so much, but he's already kind of advanced playing in the field.  He does tricks, and doesn't get caught watching the play.

He routinely scores three and four goals a game- but also plays defense (since goalkeepers aren't allowed at this age).  It has been a lot of fun watching him play.  


One of the things we are going to start working on this summer is punts and juggling.  He already tries to punt the ball- but is terrible at it.  Terrible.  My thought is, if the kid is going to do it, he should do it.  

In other news, we are filling out our summer to-do list.  There are some fun things on it (strawberry picking with Em and Nicole) and fishing in Michigan as well as some less fun things (I gotta clean up the girl cave and we need to get Nico's toys under control).  Definitely looking forward to it. 

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Cool

I went to the gym on Saturday and took Nico with me. For two hours, he read, played games, and watched videos. Then he got a little workout in- some rings and some saves. It's great that he
Is starting to be able to do this kind of thing. 

We're really looking forward to this coming weekend. School picnic and Chicago Fire game on Sat.  We're so excited!!

Chicago Fire


As part of AYSO-we got a special deal on Chicago Fire tickets. I got them for
Dave for an early Happy Father's Day gift. The stadium is pretty sweet- although far. In the future- we'd probably want to take the "pub to the pitch" bus.
Nico was a gem for most of the night. I thought he was going to lose it over some candy he wanted, but the massive meltdown was *narrowly* avoided.