Soccer has started! Sean had his first game today, after only 4 practices! His team did great though. I was really surprised. Only one kid touched the ball, just once, each of the goalies stayed in the goal and did a pretty good job of defending, and the defenders on the team had a pretty good understanding of what their job was. There is only one player on his team who has a lot of prior experience, so his coach has done an awesome job.

I think this was a little stress relief stretch…

And here is the littlest goalie, she is just adorable

Sean is hoping he gets a turn at goalie next game, they change goalies every quarter of the game, so hopefully…

This is the one that almost got away. A few mornings ago, we came downstairs to find Kitten playing with a Okinawa tree lizard at the bottom of the stairs. These are much bigger than our much beloved house geckos (we like the geckos, they’re cute if you ever see them, they chirp and eat bugs.) After following it through all the shoes there and a few squeals, I got it onto a magazine and carried it out to the jungle. About 15 minutes later, Sean found another lizard hiding in the living room. We chased it under the computer desk, though all the cords and it ended up behind a buffet/book case combo, which is to heavy for me to move to continue chasing the lizard. Then 2 mornings later, as I go to grab Catie’s coat, the picture above is what greated me! Well out it went, but it didn’t get too far. Apparently it didn’t like the rain, jumped off the book I was carrying it on and it scooted in amongst all the bikes, skateboards and scooters on the patio. The next morning, there was a lizard in the upstairs bathroom, which I suspect was the same one. Since being returned to the jungle across the street, it hasn’t shown up again.

Sean started soccer today, I think he is going to have fun, he has a great, energetic, fun mom for a coach. And after no one else other than an active duty mom would volunteer to be the team mom, I volunteered. So I guess all I need now is a minivan…

Well, the title and the pictures say it all…