Reagan's first soccer game!

There he is in the middle, #3 for the "Super Kickers"!

Reagan and his team

Look at all that sweat! It was sooo hot!

Kicking it in from the sideline.

The whole team, minus a few straggler who were late.

Reagan attempting to block a kick.

Carter, hanging out watching the game with Mom.

As some of you may know, we attempted soccer with Reagan (at his request) back when he was 3 years old. It went......okay, I guess you could say. He mainly ran around pretending to be Buzz Lightyear, spinning around in circles, and would spend time running onto other soccer fields playing in their games and picking flowers and weeds. It was a little frustrating (and by that I mean for us, he loved the idea of standing in the middle of an open field and playing for an hour every Saturday.)! It got to the point that all of us, his coaches included, kind of gave up on the idea that he would be the next Beckham and we just let him do his thing.

So you can imagine how apprehensive we were about signing him up for another season this year. Ryan and I didn't bother wasting our breath telling him all the things NOT to do this time in fear it would trigger a memory of the last time he played and we would be forced to call him "Buzz" for another 12 weeks of his life! But, to our surprise, he did AWESOME! We were thrilled! He is #3 (with BLACK uniforms of all colors!!!) for the team they named the "Super Kickers" through our YMCA. He played attack (which is where they just stay on the ball the entire time, following it wherever it goes, trying to make a goal) and defense (where they stay relatively close to the goal and block anyone from trying to get past, then they go right back to there spots as soon as the ball is a good distance away). His coach said he would defiantly play those positions every game because he was SO good at them. She told Ryan (who by-the-way, got sucked into being the assistant coach because he's WAY to nice to say no) that she hasn't seen a kid stay on the ball and keep running the entire game like Reagan has! He came about 5 inches on the left side of the goal from scoring his very first goal! We were so excited for him! He tried out goaly too, but he didn't really care for it. He got a little bored. And there were a couple of times I had to holler for him to untangle himself from the net and pay attention (I could see a Buzz Lightyear flashback happening at that moment and all I could think of was "get him out of that position!!!").

Carter was a very good little brother and cheered him on the whole game from his seat with me on the sideline. He kept saying "I go play too Mama?!". Who knows, maybe we'll have two soccer stars in the family!

We are so proud of our little Reagan. We celebrated with lunch at Tijuana Flats followed by Brusters for ice cream (none for Mom and Dad of course ;) ). And after playing a 9am tball game AND having soccer pictures at 11am followed by a 12 noon game in the 90 degree weather, we all crashed for a much needed afternoon nap!

Carter and Reagan's new favorite hang out

This place has it all! It's the new park in Lake Mary and the boys just love coming here because there is so much to do. After I lather them in 3 gallons of sunblock (spf 8,000 of course), they head out to the water area that is all fenced in with one way in and out. There is a huge rope climbing structure and a huge boulder to climb. Not to mention all the swings and all monkey bars and slides. It's hard to find a spot under the covered pavilion since this place is so new, so sometimes we have to have a picnic in the grass. Looks like we might have found our new favorite hang out though!

Reagan's first Field Trip!

Nick and Reagan on the bus.Reagan, Kendall, Lily and Lauren.
The whole gang at the park.

With Ms. Thompson...

Reagan was SO excited this morning! He had been waiting for this day for a LONG time! He had his first field trip with his Kindergarten class today to the Seminole Community College Planetarium. This was one of the best places Reagan could have gone since he has such a fascination with Space.

All of the kids piled onto the school bus (that are air conditioned these days- no more sweaty butts sliding on the seats!). Reagan sat with his friend Nick, who was in our group. The planetarium show was fun, but for someone who didn't get much sleep the night before, I had the hardest time keeping my eyes open in that dark room! The reclining chairs didn't help much either! At least it was actually geared toward Kindergartners or I'm pretty sure some of the kids would have fallen asleep too...

After the show all of the children got to go to a local park near the school to eat their bag lunches under a pavilion. And what trip to the park is complete without 50 kids running a muck for 30 minutes under the 90 degree Florida sun (which is a white star by-the-way, it only looks yellow because yellow and orange are the only colors not absorbed by the atmosphere, therefore reflecting onto the sun making it appear to be yellow.....see I really DID stay awake during the show!)?!

I caught some cute pics of the kids after I actually got them all to stand still for two minutes. Reagan's teacher, Ms. Thompson, is in one of them as well.

A sad goodbye but an exciting new begining.

The big day finally came today when I had to give my Mom the hug goodbye that would have to last her for the next 5 months. She had the Uhaul loaded and the gas tank filled up and at 4am, left on her way to an exciting new beginning in Michigan. We were all so thrilled to finally get to meet Joe, her boyfriend for quiet some time now, even though it felt like knew each other already from the countless hours we had talked on the phone with him. But it was defiantly nice to put a name to a face. We had the privilege of meeting one of his awesome daughters, Lauren, on this visit as well. She was so much fun to have around for those few days. Despite the change in plans for her spring break, I think she had a pretty good time too. I think she probably would have preferred to stay in Florida a little while longer considering she was heading back to pouring rain and 45 degree weather! Yuck! Anyways, I can't wait to have them (and all the rest of the gang) back to stay with us in August. Until then, it's lots of phone calls, emails, pictures and blogging!!!!