First game rocked!

The Cobras played their first game today.  (They voted on the name last night.  Cobras was Eric's suggestion.  They chose it.)  They did awesome!  I got ZERO pictures.  Too busy being Team Mom and cheering for my boy.  Eric played the whole game.  Final score was 4-0.  For a team that has never played together, I thought they did excellent!

E made the newsletter

There is a newsletter for our swim team of 800 kids.  Eric made the newsletter.  Twice.

He is listed as one who made it into the top three.  He is also listed at the bottom as a Swimmer of the Meet.  

Uniform cuteness

Eric got a new uniform shirt.  He has worn the maroon long sleeve one every week.  Sure looks different in the navy.  He is such a cutie pie!

Here's Eric getting some loving from Gizmo last week in his old uniform.  Guess we will put that shirt away for next year.  

Another Lego library day

Yesterday was also Lego day at the Library.  This year they were to do something egg or spring related.  Eric made an Easter egg hunt.

The stack next to him is his latest library check out stack.  He has several robotics books in there.  Ever since Dexter came, he has been reading lots of books on robots.  

Back at soccer

Soccer was supposed to start 2 weeks ago.  Unfortunately due to snow, ice, and rain, every practice and game so far has been cancelled.  We have a whole new team with a new coach.  I was really hoping to have the same coach and several of the same kids.  But, that is not what happened.  Eric's first practice is supposed to be this Wednesday (assuming it doesn't get cancelled again), but he will not be going to the Wednesday practices.  We wanted to get him on the field for some practice time, and yesterday was absolutely gorgeous here, so we took a family trip to the fields.

Is he not the cutest soccer player ever!?!?!  Love this fella.  These are his new soccer goggles.  His prescription has changed twice since we bought the old pair, so it was time for a change.  We splurged and went for the transition lenses.  This will help him a lot out there on the fields.  

I played some, but Robert and Eric played the most.  That way I could get some pictures.  All fall when we did this, I never got pictures.  I was too busy trying to beat this kid at soccer!  We went every weekday, so Robert never got to see us play.  We showed him all our drills.  Then they played the game we play.  

After we had been there an hour and a half, Eric's coach showed up to practice with his son.  Eric practiced with them for another half hour.  Then we thought 2 hours was long enough and called it a day.  The coach told us he is going to work on putting them all in as goalie.  Goalie is absolutely not the place for Eric.  He is a thinker, not a reactor.  But, he can try it.  We are looking forward to the season finally starting.  It is crazy to think Eric will only have one practice before his first game.  

Super Reader

There is a program through Six Flags where you report what you read and can earn a free ticket.  I was figuring up what Eric has read this school year.  Since mid-September he has read 20,122 pages. He records books that he reads for pleasure,  None of his school books, Bible readings, or magazines get recorded.   He is going to have to slow down.  I can't keep up with him.

Meet Awards

Today at swim we had a fun surprise.  Coach Penny gathered all the kids together and then gave out the awards from the weekend meet.

Eric was clueless.  He is the one in the green cap near the back of the group.  

She pointed out which kids had participated in the meet.  And talked about how they had each performed.  Then she handed out their ribbons.  

He was shocked when she singled him out to hand him his trophy for getting 3rd in backstroke.  She was very excited about his award.  He was the only one that participated from this group to place in the top 3.  I love that in the above picture you can see the other kids cheering for him.  It is a very supportive group.  

One excited boy!  He got a trophy for the 3rd place finish and a ribbon for the 6th in breaststroke.