Matthew Monday: Autumn Photos and Christmas Events

We are about a week from Christmas and Matthew has the flu and  running a fever for a few days now.  He’s got to get well soon.  Friday he will in the School’s living Nativity and he has the role of St. Joseph.  Saturday I have tickets to an Off-Broadway musical, All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914.  It’s just the two of us, father and son.  And then there is Christmas Eve and Day where he will be playing drums for the Church choir on “Little Drummer Boy” again this year.  And there will be Christmas at my mother’s where his cousins will be coming in.  It’s going to be busy and tiresome week, so he better get healthy fast.

I took some pictures of Matthew a few weeks ago before the leaves came down from the trees.  We were kicking a soccer ball around and I thought the setting made for some lovely photos.

I think that was early November.  While I was at it, I took snapped a couple of general Autumn photos as well.  I caught the evening sun against the colored trees.

Lovely, don’t you think?

Matthew Monday: Pep Rally and Soccer

I’m not sure if I mentioned it before, but Matthew decided not to play basketball this year.  He returned to soccer.  He played soccer two years ago, and they lost every game.  Last year his basketball team made the semi-finals in what a dream run in the playoffs.  Despite that, Matthew felt that soccer was his better sport, and so returned to it this year.  The team is no different than two years ago.  They’ve lost all five of the games they’ve played so far, and except for one game where they lost 2-1, they’ve lost the other games by quite a margin.  They are not even close to being competitive. 

This past Saturday was the school’s annual Pep Rally.  All the teams and the individual players are announced and they run into the gym like they’re going to win the Super Bowl.  It’s fun for the kids.  Here are some pictures from the Pep Rally.  Here is part of Matthew’s team with one of the coaches directing Matthew into position under the arc of balloons.

The kids are given this blow up baton which says “We’re #1” on it.  When the kids were left to themselves, the boys started whacking each other with them. 

The girls were more peaceful with them.

Finally here’s a couple of pictures from Sunday’s soccer game. 

They lost 6-0.  It’s going to be a long season.

Matthew Monday: First Day of Soccer

Matthew started soccer on Saturday.  Boy did he have fun.  It was mostly instructional but they did have them play a five on five game.   It was funny watching them.  They had no idea really on how to play.

Here are a few pictures.

His socks kept falling down...lol.

 

 



His team got blue jerseys.

And he tried playing goaly for a while but gave in to the impulse to go chase the ball down the field and the opposing team kicked a goal into the empty net.  :)