The Raptors

Liam started his first season of field soccer. Team name - the Raptors, which of course to an almost 5 year old is the coolest team name - nothing cooler than a dinosaur. He is a big fan of soccer and has been taking classes in an indoor soccer area for the last 1 1/2 years. This was a BIG deal - he finally got shin guards, more soccer socks (so far he has not worn this pair up to his thighs like previous pairs), and, of course, cleats. He is the one in the black shorts with the red stripes.

He scored the first goal for his team. We don't know what the final score ended up being - there was a lot of running in clumps, some tears, and it was hard to keep track. At one point, one of the kids on our team ended up in a group huddle with the opposing team.


This was during the warm-up - Liam was the first to begin "dribbling" the ball in the square of cones (he then corrected the coach and informed him that he had indeed made more of a rectangle with the orange cones). Thank you.



Some more of the warm-up. Liam was very excited and distracted, we're sure he did not hear a word of what coach Randy said.