Soccer

Our house is now officially in full soccer mode as Alina had her first practice yesterday. This picture was taken before practice. She is pretty excited that her jersey number is #1! Alina's coach is actually coaching two teams, but because the girls all know each other either from church or school the two teams practice together. She had a fun time.

Unfortunately, though, after practice one of her teammates did a cherry drop from the monkey bars––with her cleats still on. The cleats caught Alina in the face. She has a red mark from her right eyebrow to her left cheek, a bruise on her eyelid, and several cleat marks across her face. She also got a bloody nose. But, Alina––being the kind person that she is––said that it wasn't her friends fault, it was the mean cleat's fault. She said that she was going to reassure her friend again today at school that it wasn't her friend's fault. So sweet.