This past weekend Jameson had his first experience with organized sports, in the form of the AYSO U5 (under 5) Jamboree. The AYSO kicked off with an opening night party at the fields at "Campus El Segundo". The party was a gathering open to all age groups that he was very excited about in theory, but in practice he was a bit intimidated and shy by all of the goings on. I tried to encourage him to participate in games, but in truth the kids playing were much older than he and I can understand why he was a bit nervous about the whole thing.
The next day, Saturday, was the true start to the season. The format for his age group is called a Jamboree, which means that there are no teams and no practices. Saturdays start with a 10 minute warm up, 20 minutes of drills (that are more like mini games) led by 2 coaches from the UK that are here on a coaching exchange program and then 30 minutes of playing on randomly broken up teams of 4 or 5 coached by dads.
Jameson did great on his first day! He did very well listening to his coaches, was not overly intimidated or shy and seemed to love running around. I the game he was able to put his first ball in the net...unfortunately it was into the wrong net. Other than the own goal he had one other chance but the other team was playing a goalie (which I don't think they were supposed to be doing with the small nets and 5 on 5 games, but that's OK) and the "goalie" stopped the ball. Most importantly he really seemed to enjoy it and was not intimidated. He is probably the youngest kid out there since the cutoff for participation was turning age 4 after July 1, so I was a little nervous that the other kids being bigger would discourage him, but he wasn't discouraged at all and seemed to keep up just fine. I have a feeling that was our first of many Saturdays on the sports field!
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Our Shy Boy
Jameson is very cautious about most anything new. He is shy around new kids, reluctant to try new foods and needs much encouragement to do new things. As a person who has lived a life with similar feelings I woder how to show him all the things that he'll miss out on if he continues on this course. Logically I believe that in time he will outgrow most of these fears but as a parent I can't help but to want to help him see how much more life can offer him if he opens himself up to all of the new things that life has to offer. I'm trying now to boost his self confidence. We'll see how that works. I have also been trying lately to help him focus his feelings on all of the positive things happenning from day to day. Wouldn't it be great to help my son become someone who naturally tends to see the positivity and beauty in his life!
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Some quick memories
While driving home from one of our holidays up north as we passed Magic Mountain Jameson was quite excited to look at the roller coasters. As he was looking a truck pulled up beside us to compromise his view. With little delay this prompted him to shout "hey truck! Move!".....
One day a couple months back we introduced Jameson to the game "hide and seek". He, as you would expect, loved it! On one of our rounds it was my turn to hide. He giggled and scurried around the house looking for me as I hid in the entry closet. As I heard him approach I threw open the door and yelled "BOO!" he jumped and shrieked with a combination of fear and glee. Then after a couple seconds of laughter he looked at Sydney and confessed, "I peed myself a little"...
On 12/2/12 I took Jameson Ice Skating for the 1st time. We went to the Culver Ice Arena, where I've been playing hockey. After first getting the skates on and walking around on the rubber floor he began to get a bit of false confidence, I imagine thinking that getting around on skates was not difficult, but then of course as the skates first hit the ice his legs shot out in either direction as I held his hands. The brief cocky was quickly humbled. I held him between my legs and sometimes held his hands and skated backward as we inched our way around the ice. After a couple of laps we got a cup of hot chocolate and sat up in the stands to drink it....
Jameson really seemed to enjoy all of the time that we spent together as a family over the holidays. Even though after Christmas we tore apart our kitchen and sanded/painted all of our cabinets. At one point out of the blue he looked over at us and said "I love mommy and I love daddy." So cute...
For my birthday Sydney wok Jameson up while I was showering for work. The set up a happy birthday banner in the breakfast nook and brought out a little cake for us to share. Jameson was very excited by the whole thing (especially the cake). Sydney told me later that Jameson was very nervous leading up to the whole thing that he was going to forget the words to Happy Birthday. As far as I could remember he was able to recall them fine. Sydney got me a really nice SF Giants pullover...
5/30/13
After work today Jameson and I went down to Dockweiller beach. We played soccer on the sand. I would go down into a pushup position and tell him that my arms were the goal and he would kick the ball through. I would dropkick the ball and he would chase with glee (he still loves running around as much as possible). Then we went down to the water and had a great time splashing in the water (kicking it at each other) and digging up sand crabs. We really had a great time. The we went to the Lifestyle Cafe and he had a Peanut Butter, Banana and Honey sandwich. He was surprised by how much he liked it, but I was not (he is still very hesitant to try any new food). It was a great night together after we had not been able to spend any time together in the past two nights (I went to Kings-Sharks game 7 and then had a hockey game of my own at Culver City).
One day a couple months back we introduced Jameson to the game "hide and seek". He, as you would expect, loved it! On one of our rounds it was my turn to hide. He giggled and scurried around the house looking for me as I hid in the entry closet. As I heard him approach I threw open the door and yelled "BOO!" he jumped and shrieked with a combination of fear and glee. Then after a couple seconds of laughter he looked at Sydney and confessed, "I peed myself a little"...
On 12/2/12 I took Jameson Ice Skating for the 1st time. We went to the Culver Ice Arena, where I've been playing hockey. After first getting the skates on and walking around on the rubber floor he began to get a bit of false confidence, I imagine thinking that getting around on skates was not difficult, but then of course as the skates first hit the ice his legs shot out in either direction as I held his hands. The brief cocky was quickly humbled. I held him between my legs and sometimes held his hands and skated backward as we inched our way around the ice. After a couple of laps we got a cup of hot chocolate and sat up in the stands to drink it....
Jameson really seemed to enjoy all of the time that we spent together as a family over the holidays. Even though after Christmas we tore apart our kitchen and sanded/painted all of our cabinets. At one point out of the blue he looked over at us and said "I love mommy and I love daddy." So cute...
For my birthday Sydney wok Jameson up while I was showering for work. The set up a happy birthday banner in the breakfast nook and brought out a little cake for us to share. Jameson was very excited by the whole thing (especially the cake). Sydney told me later that Jameson was very nervous leading up to the whole thing that he was going to forget the words to Happy Birthday. As far as I could remember he was able to recall them fine. Sydney got me a really nice SF Giants pullover...
5/30/13
After work today Jameson and I went down to Dockweiller beach. We played soccer on the sand. I would go down into a pushup position and tell him that my arms were the goal and he would kick the ball through. I would dropkick the ball and he would chase with glee (he still loves running around as much as possible). Then we went down to the water and had a great time splashing in the water (kicking it at each other) and digging up sand crabs. We really had a great time. The we went to the Lifestyle Cafe and he had a Peanut Butter, Banana and Honey sandwich. He was surprised by how much he liked it, but I was not (he is still very hesitant to try any new food). It was a great night together after we had not been able to spend any time together in the past two nights (I went to Kings-Sharks game 7 and then had a hockey game of my own at Culver City).
Recently we got a treat of some gellato on the 3rd street promenade in Santa Monica. While eating I warned Jameson that if he ate too much his belly would hurt. Now whenever we eat anything; crackers, oranges, berries, etc. he says to me, half question/half statement, "If I eat too many of these my tummies going to hurt". To which I re-assure him that those foods should be OK.
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