Rained Out

Well, as I feared, the make-up soccer games scheduled for today were in fact rained out again. And they won't play any games after today, so unfortunately that means the season is over, and we only got to play four of the six scheduled games. It's a bummer, because I felt Joshua was really starting to blossom and to really enjoy soccer. He's trusting Coach Travis and seems to like his teammates. I really would've liked to have seen that continue to grow since the experiences are positive ones at this point. The games were rained out, but Coach Travis requested that the kids get together at Cosmic Jump in Olathe to play together and so they could have the end-of-season medal ceremony. We'd never been to Cosmic Jump before, but it's one of the places that focuses on trampolines. There are long tumbling trampolines, trampolines with basketball hoops, and trampolines just for general bouncing, and more. Only four kids showed up, counting Kaden (Travis' son) and Joshua, but they had a lot of fun. Joshua really liked bouncing and wrestling and when Coach Travis chased them around the mats. The kids were all pretty sweaty by the end. Before we left, Travis got the team together and told them how proud he was of them and how well they played, etc. He then gave a medal to each kid and talked to them individually (he still looks so much like Peyton Manning to me in some pictures, especially here where he's talking to Joshua). He again reminded Joshua how amazing his goal was, and how it was the highlight of the season. Last week the assistant coach told me it was the overall highlight of both seasons for him, so it made quite an impression on everyone. We plan to do soccer again in the fall, adding Clara to the mix, though she'll be on a different team. If Travis coaches again, we'll definitely try to get Joshua on his team to continue to build on the progress we made this season.