One of Logan’s friends daddy decided to organize a weekly soccer practice for his son and friends.  They were the group Logan took the soccer lessons with a long time ago.  The dad wanted to try it out as he loves soccer and has the equipment.  He also wanted to do it as he felt that the lessons we took before had too much wait time in between plays which Stuart and I agreed as well.  For today, there were a total of 11 kids, all near Logan’s age, and it was held in a very nice park by their house.  The practice was just around 30 minutes, but it was full of drills with no messing around.  He started with a few warm up poses, then immediately did some drills with their soccer balls, some baby kicks, green lights/red lights, passing between buddies and passing to parents then to the goal.  I was sitting on the sideline with Connor who was contently sitting on me and watching.  Logan did not do the warm up initially but did participate in all the drills.  However he was probably the one who showed the least interest in following the instruction from the coach.  He would occasionally wonder toward me to say hi until Stuart brought him back into the game.  Logan also sometimes requested to hold hands with Stuart, but that was partly as he needed help to balance for a stand on the ball.  Overall all the kids seemed to have a great time, and the duration was brief enough for the kids’ attention span. 

     After that, we all had a picnic lunch on the lawn.  There was a a great playground structure at the park too, so as the kids filled up with foods, they all slowly migrated over.  Some of us were able to remain sitting to chitchat a bit longer.  Logan had fun playing with one of his friends, up and down the structure and hiding from the monsters.  Connor was getting stronger that he could climb up and down the structures all on his own most of the times.  After almost 3 hours at the park, we finally packed up to go home.  After 10 minutes of trying to keep Connor up during the drive, I finally gave up as he was just too tired.  Fortunately he continued to sleep after I moved him from the car to his crib.

     After this weekend, we felt that it is time to sign Logan up for some classes to give him more opportunities for physical activities and to work on following instructions.  We will see how it goes.