Saturday, March 06, 2010

Getting Along

Anthony had two high school soccer games this morning, and as usual he got to watch the first game and play in the second game. He has started to play in the midfield position along with his usual defender position. He's not used to the midfield position, so we can tell that he gets a little disoriented, but he's been playing well all around. Just like last week we rushed home after getting takeout (from Sonic, this time) so we could go to his 2:30PM club soccer game. Patrick only watched the first couple of minutes of Anthony's game because he had to drive Alex to his away game across town.

With all of these soccer games, Natalie and Eric are often left to play on their own, because their negligent parents are trying to watch the game. They get along so well sometimes, but other times, not so well. This is a picture of them holding hands while running after the soccer ball. Unfortunately, Natalie runs a little faster than Eric, and soon after this picture was taken, Eric lost his footing and fell. By the way, this was taken with my big zoom lens, so I was too far away to rush to Eric's aid. Luckily he wasn't really hurt.

The reason why they were probably running together is that the two of them have a hard time sharing the ball, and by running together, they probably both felt like they were both playing with the ball. This was the interaction between the two of them a little while later. Eric is holding on to the ball so his sister can't get it. Natalie is sitting on Eric and tapping his back. She wasn't tapping hard, but she was a little annoyed that he wasn't playing with the ball, but he wasn't going to let her have it either.

For most of Anthony's afternoon game, they were digging in the dirt with small fallen branches. I'm not sure if they had a purpose to their digging besides just digging for the fun of it, but I left them alone because they were getting along.

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