Another Loss

As I mentioned last night, DS#1 met some friends at Laser Quest last night. He was the one who organized the "event" but he didn't plan on the fact that Laser Quest is pretty busy on Saturday night. They all got to play, but they had to play at a later time so they didn't finish until after 10PM. A friend of his stayed over with us last night since he leaves across town. This friend, A.O., has spent the night over many times before and DS#3 really enjoys him. A.O. really enjoys him too and it's cool to see a 14-year-old boy enjoy a 2-year-old like that. This morning I told DS#3 that A.O. was here and he rushed downstairs and gave him a hug. So cute!

This is a picture of DS#1 reading to DS#3. I love seeing my kids interacting like this--so sweet! DS#1 and his friend got to watch DS#3 and DD this afternoon when we went to DS#2's soccer game. The weather was beautiful today. It was about the same temperature as yesterday (mid 70s) but there was more of a breeze during the soccer game, making it a much more pleasant experience than usual.

This is a picture of DS#2 in his blue "away" uniform. I'm a little biased, but I really think he's a cutie. DH is the team manager, so he talks to the coach a lot. The coach seems to think that DS#2 is his best player and it's nice to hear that after last year when it seemed like DS#2 was always getting less play time and less respect as most of the other players on the team.

The game today was pretty rough. DH knew the referee from previous encounters and thinks he's a good referee, but he "lets the kids play". Apparently this means that he'll let the kids foul each other as long as it's not unsafe play (where someone might get hurt) or as long as it doesn't affect the outcome of the game. As you can see from this picture, this one kid is almost mauling my son. Luckily, DS#2 is pretty big and tough and handled it pretty well. Another time another kid jumped up and almost hit DS#2 "where it hurts" and we were pretty happy that the referee called a foul on him plus also gave him a talk on the field about unsafe play.

Unfortunately, DS#2's team lost 3-0 with one of those goals being an "own goal" meaning that one of DS#2's teammates inadvertently scored in the wrong goal. The other team was just more aggressive. They went to wherever the ball was and generally handled the ball better than DS#2's team. The good news is that they won by a smaller margin than their last meeting just 15 days ago. Even their coach made a comment about how much better DS#2's team played than their last game. Sadly, this was another loss. I hope things turn around. It's getting a little discouraging with loss after loss. DD's team keeps losing too. It would be a nice morale booster if both of their teams would win just one game!