Savannah - Soccer at Six

I was happily surprised at the soccer game.

My great-niece was sooooooo cute in that hot pink and black soccer outfit. She had ponytails. She is a typical midwestern white girl, blonde blonde hair, and blue eyes.

She is a tough little one, too. No shrinking violet, just aggressive enough to not be run over like a door mat, but restrained enough to probably stay out of brawls, should she continue to play in the coming years...

They rotate the kids through positions. Her coaches were two men and they were really good - very supportive. The other team's coaches were two women and one of them was a bit overboard with her coaching - they are 6, chick.

Anyway, little Savannah is pretty quick. She doesn't seem to get defense just yet, but was aggressive on offense.

They won. We think the score was 3 to 2 but we don't really know.

We picked her oldest sister up from cross-country and Savannah told her they won 5 to 0... a minute later she told her the truth... little shit.

It was much more exciting than I had expected, those little girls were pretty good.

My niece says Springboro is pretty competitive with soccer. Her oldest daughter, Ashlynn, played until 5th grade. She is now in 8th grade. I suggested that she get back into soccer and was told that she would not be anywhere near good enough now, having missed 3 years. Apparently these kids play indoor soccer in the winter and are pretty committed by 7th grade. Cripes.

Well, Ashlynn is off to her first audition for a non-school play. Auditions are open to kids in 8th to 11th grade and they will likely perform the play at the main theater in downtown Dayton.

Ashlynn is unlikely to make it. She has an attitude issue. She is whiney like a small child and has not yet grasped the idea that the world will not be handed to her on a silver platter. She seems really to want to be a performer and she has a really really great voice - she just needs to get her head out of her ass a bit.

She did show some maturity today at her cross-country meet. She could not get her new earings out (she had a second piercing in each ear in the summer) and one of them was swollen. The refs told her if she ran the whole team would be disqualified for the event, her coach told her she could run or sit it out. She sat it out instead of being self-absorbed. I was proud of that, at least that she thought of the others. She is not a very good runner, she does not have the body structure to be a first place runner, but, more importantly, she seems to really like to run and that is what counts, doing something she enjoys.

Well, it was a fun day with the kids and I hope Ashlynn is "breaking a leg" right about now.

More on her aspiring career as a performer as news comes in. She did make show choir this year - in a school with 1000 kids, that is pretty darn good, and this community takes the arts seriously...