A couple of weeks ago I took the camera with me to what was supposed to be one (of two) of Liam’s soccer “games” for the season. As it turned out, half of the other team had a stomach virus and the other half of the team was instructed to stay home as a precaution. So basically Liam had a cheering section for his practice. He loved it.
Liam gets warmed up:
And here’s where he became aware that I was taking pictures…
…and started milking it for all it was worth.
Kickin’ it with Daddy:
Paige takes Pop on a walk:
Liam shows me his stuff:
Paige shows me her stuff:
These days I find that I get the best pictures of Liam when he’s aware that I’ve just been taking pictures of Paige. Sometimes sibling jealousy works in my favor.
Game face:
“GOAL!!!”
Love.
Sun-kissed Paige:
The official warm-up begins:
Paige finds this fascinating:
Paige & Pop:
Paige & Grammie:
Huddle:
“Which way should you shoot the ball?”
This is what a “scrimmage” of 3 year olds looks like (at least for the first 20 seconds or so until there is a total breakdown and people are running off the field or staring into space…):
A rare shot of Paige looking at the camera:
At this point she was still interested in what was happening on the field:
Liam has a tendency to play with the flag when he’s supposed to play the game:
(Note that the other children are largely chasing after the ball while my child is mugging hard for my camera)
Water break!
More mugging:
“Go Team Bananas!”
“Going Bananas!”
Classic Liam move — running in one direction while looking in another:
Although the majority of these pictures may tell a different story, the fact that they were in the process of running in the wrong direction, off their field, and onto an adjacent one was not an infrequent occurrence…
This was the crown jewel of the running-in-the-wrong-direction-off-the-field shots as in this case Liam fully believed that he was scoring a goal. In the backside of the net. On another field.
At some point taking pictures of the scrimmage became harder and harder and I took advantage of the opportunity to snap some of Paige who was having an absolute ball. Pun intended.
It should be noted that she wasn’t walking independently at this point and yet her ball handling skills still surpassed those of half the children on the field:
I would attempt to take some pictures of his last “game” this Wednesday but without the additional cheering section to watch Paige I’m afraid it’s nearly impossible. That girl is on the move these days! Fingers crossed that it goes better than last week (at which time we were unaware that Liam was hours away from tossing his cookies and that his physical complaints probably weren’t solely an attempt to get out of playing the game). At this point I’ll settle for not having to make any trips to the porta potty with both kids in tow…