Soccer and Chloe

Chloe is playing soccer. This is her first year playing real organized soccer. She is improving quickly. She plays midfield and does a good job. Today, during the game she was in the midfield and the coach told her to move up and play forward as well to help out with the offense. The team was down 2 to1. When I saw Chloe line up as a forward I told her that if she scored a goal she would get $100. I was joking of course, as Chloe never scores and usually never gets close to scoring. Today would be different.

Chloe was right in the middle of things as a forward. She was right in the middle getting the passes and shooting, she was getting tripped by defenders and she was passing to open team mates. The crowd was cheering her on (they all heard my $100 pledge). Suddenly a pass goes into Chloe from Michelle (another girl on the team) right in front of the goal and Chloe kind of pokes the ball into the air. The goalie for the other team tries to get it and it knocks off his hands and into the goal. The crowd goes wild, Chloe is happy and I cannot believe I now owe my daughter $100.

All the other parents were asking me if I was actually going to pay. I told them that I would have to ask my wife. After the game I called Diana and she quickly says that I have to pay. We go to the ATM and now Chloe has her$100. See the pictures below:

Chloe Scored!

Today at Chloe's socceer game she scored a goal! More details to follow.

Chloe's Soccer Game

Chloe played soccer today today in cold and windy weather. I cannot believe how cold it was. At least Chloe was able to run around to stay warm. I just had to stand there and be cold. Chloe is getting a lot better at soccer and she really enjoys it. She made some really good kicks and even the other parents are noticing her improvement.

The season is almost over, she better score her goal soon if she wants her Coldstone treat. Here are some pics from today.
Chloe playing defense. I had to talk to her about playing too far forward.
Here is Chloe running after the ball.
Chloe is actually getting ready to kick the ball in this one. She is the master of the short pass. She likes to get "assists."
Chloe is getting in position to stop the opposing player here. That is the perfect defensive stance (I taught her that).

Chloe and Soccer

I posted earlier about Chloe and her soccer team. Here is a picture:

Chloe's team won 6-0 and Chloe was pretty good for her first time out. Sorry the picture is not better, but my Curve would not zoom. Sometimes is does that. We are still excited to see how the rest of the season goes. Hopefully, the season will contain a lot more wins!

Saturday

I got a lot done today. Not enough though. Still have a lot to do this week. Good thing soccer practice was cancelled this week, and I have Thursday open because we have Pack Meeting this week (Pine Wood Derby). I would post more, but it is late. Expect some long posts on Monday.

Just so you know, Chloe's soccer team won 6-0! Chloe even kicked the ball a couple times. She schooled this one girl and stole the ball from her and then passed to her teammate. She did whiff on her only shot on goal.

Chloe at Soccer Practice

These are pictures I snapped at Chloe's soccer practice this week. Chloe is very excited for soccer. She had a good time at practice. This is the first time she has ever played rec league soccer. We got her some cool white shoes to play in so you will always be able to see her. Her shirt reads, "Girls Bring More Game." Soccer goes all the way into October so I hope she really enjoys it.

Broken TiVo

We have (I mean had) one real TiVo in our house. Even though we call all of our DVRs TiVo. We love the DVR and have had the TiVo for over 5 years. The kids started complaining about the box freezing a couple weeks ago (this is not the same box referenced in this post from Diana). Over the weekend the kids said they could not get the TV to work downstairs. I thought that maybe they had filled the TiVo with junk. I went downstairs to look at it and there was a lot of junk. I cleaned everything off and it still did not work. I now had to call DirecTV. I went through almost an hour of troubleshooting and the person did not know what the problem was. I had three options (I will list them the way I was told them):

1. Pay $80 to have someone come out. I might get charged a lot more, but the guy would get it working before he left. (Cost: At least $80)
2. Sign up for the $6 a month collection plan and then the service person at my house would be free, I would just have to pay any "extra" costs. (Cost: At least $72)
3. Get a new TiVo (actually a Dish DVR) to replace the old TiVo. (Cost: Free, just pay shipping and handling).

Because I am out of contract DirecTV used this opportunity to sign me up for a one year contract to get a free DVR from them. I plan on staying with DirecTV for a while so this is not a problem.

I got the new DVR today, but I was putting together furniture tonight (and Chloe's soccer practice) so I did not get it hooked up. Prepare for me to write some witty story about my DVR setup experience. Also, I have pictures from Chloe's soccer practice to post and pictures of the furniture as I get it built (posts will go up Wednesday afternoon/late evening).

Today I Did...

At midnight I was at the WalMart getting the new Stephanie Meyer book (Diana has been reading all day). You can feel like you get a lot done when you are doing something at midnight, when officially I think I would have to count that as something I did yesterday and not really today.

Chloe had wanted to sign up for soccer with a friend and that was at 9AM, so me and the kids headed over there. Chloe was too old to be on her one friends team (these girls are maybe 8 months age difference, but the soccer league goes by school year), so she looked at the teams that were in her age group and saw another friends name. She was happy to be doing this. It is a pretty big time investment for Diana and I. Practices will be Tuesdays at 5:30 (almost the same time as Webelos) and then games are Saturday at 4:30PM. If you want to come to a game let me know and I can give you the address of where they play. She will play until October 25th. That is quite a while. Chloe was happy she got to do this. Jordan can't play a lot of sports because he cannot take a shot to the face. We stopped and got him McDonalds to cheer him up.

I needed to finish setting up my office, I had not done anything in months. We had Jordan upstairs, but his dressers were still in the living room. I started moving things out of his room and taking them downstairs. Thanks to Diana for actually cleaning everything off, so I just had to move the big stuff. The kids helped and before we knew it it was noon. We were getting ready to go to the store to get a present for a birthday party Chloe was going to today at 3PM, except that the party actually started at noon. Diana got a reminder on her phone. We ran to the store and got the present and dropped Chloe off. Jordan and I continued to move stuff downstairs or into Diana's scrapbooking room until it was time to pick up Chloe.

We pick Chloe up and have a couple errands to run. We stop at Blockbuster to get some new movies, you will hear more about these when I review them. I also stopped at Radio Shak to get a wireless USB stick to install in Diana's new computer. We go to WalGreens to pick up some prescriptions. We got one for FREE, I do not know why, the girl just said that the insurance was picking up the whole cost this time and next time it would be its regular $10. Lastly we stopped at Chloe's dance to see when she will having dance this fall. She got assigned Thursday nights.

Once we got home I continued to do things that I have been meaning to do for a while. I got Diana's computer all set up. I am typing these blogs on it now, with a USB stick as wireless adapter. It is pretty cool, and better than having to install a wireless card. Works great. I also got the Wii onto the internet. Now I can start playing Mario Kart against people online as well as I can now buy old games like Super Mario Bothers to play on the Wii. Diana and I love the old Mario games and I am sure we will own them all soon. I did set the parental controls on the Wii so there could not be internet surfing downstairs without supervision and the kids will need a code to buy anything.

Under Diana's desk where the computer is she has a foot massager. It is cool, but I am not a big fan of foot massages. When I stand up after using it for a while my feet feel really weird. I think I have almost worn out the batteries today.

That has been the day so far. I still need to move Jordan's dressers to him room, I think I will do that as soon as I am done with this. I am installing software on Diana's desktop, so I have time to get up and do things between install commands.

With all this typing today you would think I get paid by the word.

Diana is getting close to being done with the book.