Grace had her first game on Saturday and she was very excited....until we pulled up to the field and the tears started. We encouraged her and reminded her of how much she loves soccer...didn't help! She got on the field and continued to cry. She said she did not want to play! And let me tell you people, the child was serious!
This is Brandon carrying her off of the field and then he changed his mind and carried her back on the field where she continued to cry! He told her that she was going to play....ummm, no she wasn't!
She slowly backed herself away from the rest of the game and continued to cry. The poor coach on the other team even tried to help her and she really got mad. You will notice she is in the corner of the field and the rest of the team is playing. Brandon then went and got her off the field!
So it was time to pull out the big dog...Mimi! Mimi told her that she would take her to ChuckE Cheese (eeeeek), buy her a new dress and even an American Girl Doll! Did this help you ask? NO! The girl was not going to play soccer today or ever she said! Her father was very upset about all this since he had someone come in and work for him at the station while he came and watched his...little soccer star? He went back to work very upset but I don't really think Grace cared about how everyone else felt. She did not like people looking at her. Unfortunately Grace had another game later that day and she said that she would not play. We went and ate lunch and took a nap and again we reinforced the bribes! 
Well what do you know...it worked! This is game two; Grace and her Papa warming up with both of their tongues sticking out to the side (I too did this when I played soccer, I call it the Crouch tongue)! 
Grace even helped me with some cool stretching with her team. We did the itsy bitsy spider stretch and she told me that next time she will teach me some more...NEXT TIME? "Yes mommy, I like soccer and you know I cry on the first time." So now I know and maybe she had forgotten about the bribes!
Grace is #4, the cute one twirling her pigtails! The girls didn't do very well. They didn't really get the concept of kicking the ball. They just kind of watched the other team, who by the way has played together for one season already so I call this the professionl 4 and 5 year old time. Grace said that the orange team was just too fast! And she really wanted to kick it but couldn't catch them. 
These are the directors of the the soccer league encouraging the Pink Pixies to kick the ball into the goal and try and get the ball from the orange team. I started thinking that Grace's entire life has been about me telling her not to take things away from people and here I am yelling at her "GET THE BALL!" They were very confused and the parents very frustrated.
Grace did actually kick the ball and I was very proud and turned towards Brandon to see how proud he was but then remembered that he had to work and he was missing this very special moment! Oh well he got to see her throw her ball earlier when she didn't want to play!
This is Brandon carrying her off of the field and then he changed his mind and carried her back on the field where she continued to cry! He told her that she was going to play....ummm, no she wasn't!
She slowly backed herself away from the rest of the game and continued to cry. The poor coach on the other team even tried to help her and she really got mad. You will notice she is in the corner of the field and the rest of the team is playing. Brandon then went and got her off the field!
So it was time to pull out the big dog...Mimi! Mimi told her that she would take her to ChuckE Cheese (eeeeek), buy her a new dress and even an American Girl Doll! Did this help you ask? NO! The girl was not going to play soccer today or ever she said! Her father was very upset about all this since he had someone come in and work for him at the station while he came and watched his...little soccer star? He went back to work very upset but I don't really think Grace cared about how everyone else felt. She did not like people looking at her. Unfortunately Grace had another game later that day and she said that she would not play. We went and ate lunch and took a nap and again we reinforced the bribes! Well what do you know...it worked! This is game two; Grace and her Papa warming up with both of their tongues sticking out to the side (I too did this when I played soccer, I call it the Crouch tongue)! Grace even helped me with some cool stretching with her team. We did the itsy bitsy spider stretch and she told me that next time she will teach me some more...NEXT TIME? "Yes mommy, I like soccer and you know I cry on the first time." So now I know and maybe she had forgotten about the bribes!
Grace is #4, the cute one twirling her pigtails! The girls didn't do very well. They didn't really get the concept of kicking the ball. They just kind of watched the other team, who by the way has played together for one season already so I call this the professionl 4 and 5 year old time. Grace said that the orange team was just too fast! And she really wanted to kick it but couldn't catch them. 
These are the directors of the the soccer league encouraging the Pink Pixies to kick the ball into the goal and try and get the ball from the orange team. I started thinking that Grace's entire life has been about me telling her not to take things away from people and here I am yelling at her "GET THE BALL!" They were very confused and the parents very frustrated.
Grace did actually kick the ball and I was very proud and turned towards Brandon to see how proud he was but then remembered that he had to work and he was missing this very special moment! Oh well he got to see her throw her ball earlier when she didn't want to play!
So the final score was something like 25 to 3 with 2 of our 3 points being scored by the other team...oh well, we'll take it! So did Grace forget about the bribes you ask! NOT A CHANCE! Did Mimi and Papa take her to ChuckE Cheese...NOT A CHANCE! They went back to Artesia and stuck me with the Big Cheese, EEEEEK! 
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I'm so glad she warmed up to it! She certainly does not like the first time :) She's so cute though. Oh and I hate chucke cheese!
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