Grady the soccer player

Grady played micro soccer with a YMCA clinic in September.  It was super awesome for his age group!  They split up into groups with 1 coach and 1 helper and they basically did drills that were actually games.  He did great, for never having played soccer before or realling knowing what a soccer ball was before he started.  (If you know Paul at all you know he hates soccer and doesn't think it is a real sport....so it was so big of him to allow Grady to play! haha)  We loved the coaches and the types of drills they did were so age appropriate.  It was every Saturday morning in September, so it was short enough that we didn't get tired of going, but just long enough that Grady was very comfortable and looked forward to it each week. 
He has become so much more interested in sports over the summer and pretty much plans his days around when he can play/practice baseball in the basement with Paul.  Just the other day we said something about college and he (in true dramatic Grady fashion) said in a very whiny voice, 'No!  I don't like college because then I have to choose if I want to play baseball or football and I just like them both!'  HA!  Such a hard life as a 4 year old to have to choose between what he wants to play in college.  :) 
Paul is loving having his little sports buddy who always wants to play baseball, knows all of the Royals players by number and position, can name almost all of the major league baseball teams by their helmets, and is super sad that baseball season is over now, but counting down the days until it starts again.  He is now starting to get into football season a little more, but is having a hard time with the fact that we won't let him tackle or be tackled.  (His glasses broke 3 times in the past 2 weeks because of tackling...)  I taught him about flag and touch football the other day so now he is excited to be able to 'teach' Luke and Isaac about that and not tackle since he isn't allowed to play.  He even said to me, "When I get to heaven I will be able to play tackle football and anything I want since I won't have glasses there."  Love it!  :)