A great weekend!!!

We had such a fun weekend!  Friday Gary was off and we went to the zoo!  Alex has been asking for the past few weeks when we can go to the zoo again... it was good "zoo weather" because it was very fall-ish.. not too hot, not too cold :)

 It's fun to see how much more into the zoo the kids are each time we go.  The last time we went was a few months ago for Nathan's first birthday.  He loved it then, but was even more into it this time!  He could see animals that were further away, made more animal sounds, and knew more of them by name.

 They're so funny because of all of the unique animals, they always LOVE to watch the ducks!  They stood here a good while and we had to drag them to the next thing!

 Friday night was Alex's first soccer practice!  He has been SOOO excited for soccer... but so far everything has been rained out (the first two practices, and the first game).  They rescheduled practice for Friday so that the kids would meet the coach and get to kick the ball around together before their first game on Saturday!  Alex had SOO much fun at practice!  He did a great job following directions and jumped right in!  He can be timid and we were a little nervous how he'd do, but he did GREAT! 

 After his first practice he came home, put on his uniform and played soccer in the living room the rest of the night!  Then he put his uniform on right after breakfast, grabbed his soccer ball and played again until it was time to go to his game!  He could not wait!!! He kept trying to get us to leave alll morning! 

 He LOVED his first game!  He was the only kid on his team that didn't have a melt down at some point AND the only one who played the whole game without any help from mom or dad (going on the field with him)!  He ran and ran, it was so cute!!  He defninitely wasn't super aggressive in the sense that he didn't really try to "steal" the ball away... I guess he's used to being nice and taking turns haha! 

 He did LOVE to kick it though and played so hard!!  It was adorable :)  I hope he enjoys soccer this much the entire season!