Soccer

We have entered into Soccer season. It is my first time being a Soccer Mom. I have been a football mom, a stage mom, a basketball mom and the mom of kids in music groups etc. but this week I became an official Soccer Mom. Since Soccer is about the only sport in Ukraine the new boys think it is awesome. They are on separate teams. In the past couple of days we have been to 3 games and 1 practice. I learned that they don't have bleachers at Soccer fields and you have to bring your own chairs. The first game we sat on a Walmart sack to keep from getting muddy. The team that Spencer is on plays about 10 boys on the field at a time and the games are about an hour. Vitaliy's team plays 4 on 4 and so their games are only 35 minutes. You can get as much action and adrenalin going in 35 mins. Vitliy is number 12 and Spencer is number 11.

It has been exciting to see them excited about their games and I think that the timing is good right now. When we first got home Dave got Vitaliy on a really good team (the coach was a patient of his and had 2 sons who played pro soccer) He wasn't ready for that at the time and had to drop out before the season even started. I think it takes some time to adjust to the language, family, school etc. and it looks like now they have that down, they can handle some extra things. Here are some pics of our soccer boys.