Halloween

All of my boys dressed up for Halloween this year...some were cuter than others!  Eli was a monkey that Zach had been only yesterday, I swear.  Zach was a very terrifying monster (which ended up being much cuter on the rack...he will kill me some year for not only the costume but also taking pictures of him in it--turns out by 4 yrs kids need to move away from the cute cuddly costumes...who knew?!?).  And Steve, who was running a Halloween tournament all weekend and had to dress up, was 'the doctor' (For those of you like me who have no idea who that is he was a basketball player for the 76ers in the '80s). When he decided that he had to dress up his only comment was that he had to be someone with hair!!  (Jesse, I'm sure you will be able to come up with a way to use this picture in the future!)

Soccer

Zach played soccer this year for the county and Steve was his coach!  This is not a sport that we have played much of at our house and Zach was definitely not a dominant player....  The first day he ran around behind the group looking over at me and smiling a largest smile I have ever seen.  As the weeks progressed he started to understand the concepts more and by the last two weeks he even scored 2 goals!!!!  We went into this sport just wanting Zach to have fun and run around with other kids but I was a little disappointed in myself with how inordinately pleased I was to see him score!

Scoring a goal during practice.

This was the little mob that followed Steve around!

Waiting his turn for 'coach' to call him back in the game!

This was one of Zach's breakaway goals!