Soccer and Visitors

We spent the weekend with 2 extra kids in our house. Chris and Patti had a wedding to go to, so Charlie and Lucy stayed with us. (Max went to Bill & Renee's house.) Saturday morning Rudy had his first soccer practice/ game.
Here he and Lucy kick the balls around before the practice started.









Rudy hanging out with friends from his class.

Rudy doing practice drills. They had to kick the ball from one cone to another.

After they finished doing drills they played part of a game. (I use the term loosely since this is a group of kindergartners and playing a game consisted of everyone running for the ball.) Here he waits for it to start.

He's ready to go.

He sure looks good.

Holding back a little.

And right in the middle of things.

later in the afternoon, in an effort to keep the peace and get the kids outside for a while while Charlie slept, Lucy and Rudy helped me put out the Halloween decorations. They both had very strong opinions about how things should be set up. Lucy had a random placement for everything spread all over the yard. Rudy wanted things more lined up (he definitely gets that from Paul!).

Our Lucy Goosey.

And the boy riding the stick like a broomstick.

I said, "Can I take a picture of the two of you together?"

Rudy, "Let's fight."

Lucy immediately joined in, so this is the picture I got.

Charlie exploring the kitchen.

We went out to dinner with Grandpa. Charlie probably ate almost as much as Rudy and Lucy. "More" is something we heard over and over again this weekend.

Then we walked across the shopping center to a new build your own frozen yogurt place. We will definitely come back here!

The ride back to meet everyone on Sunday had it's ups and downs, leading to Rudy and Lucy being separated. Rudy used the time to bond with Charlie instead.