Firsts......

Connor has had some new adventures lately.  Quite a few firsts!  Here they are:

First Bike!

 He was pretty excited!  He had to earn it by getting 14 stickers (2 weeks) for following his bedtime steps and staying in his room until his clock is yellow (his clock turns yellow when it's 'morning' - 6:50am according to us!)  But it didn't take him 2 weeks like we thought.....it took most of the summer.  (Exhausting)  

But he did it!

 So proud!

First Day of School!

(I can't get this pic to turn the right way - believe me I've tried everything. Sorry you have to turn your head.)
Connor's started preschool this year.  He goes 4 days a week for 2.5 hours each day.  He LOVES it!  His teacher is fantastic!  She said he's doing awesome and that she's going to start teaching him to read 3-letter words!  So exciting!  He wants to read so bad.  Fun, fun!!  

First Soccer Team!

Practice

Connor's the one in the red shirt, green shorts and blue socks.  I promise he dressed himself!  :)  This is at practice - Thursday evenings. 

It is pretty fun watching the kids.  It's 4 and 5 yr olds 'playing' soccer.  :)  

He does a really good job listening to his coach.  Too bad we're not big fans of the coach - I wish they would teach him the basics and the rules, and not just stand there and watch them try to figure it out.  (Matt is going to try and help out if the coach lets him.)

First Game!

Obviously they are the white team.  Connor is #6.  Remember blue socks.  :) (That was my number in high school for volleyball!)  

The game was hilarious!  He started off as defender and didn't move for the first quarter.  They just weren't sure what to do.  

Then after the quarter we told Connor to go after the ball.  We said,  'you can run after the ball, it's ok.'  'Just do what Brock does, follow him.'  Brock is #9 (above) and he's by far the best one on our team - he knows what he's doing.  

So just after the next quarter started Connor was doing a great job standing as defender and then all of the sudden the ball came towards him and he started running after it!  :)  And he never went back to defender he just followed Brock all over the field!  :)  It was hilarious!  But great because I think he was understanding the game better.  

He got to throw it in a couple times. 

There he is following Brock.  

So after being in 3 quarters the coach asked him if he wanted a break.  He said ok and took a seat on the 'bench' and watched.  After 5-10 minutes he got up and just walked on the field and started playing again (I crack up just thinking about it!).  Apparently he was done with his break and wanted to get back in there.  But the coached explained that he needed to wait and let the other kids play.  It was all good, but funny!  Kids are so innocent and it's funny to see how they understand things.  :)

Connor loves playing soccer - but what he LOVES most is playing soccer with his dad in our yard.  :)