Hello...anyone still there?

Here's a new Ella photo from dinner tonight. This is evidence of not just her silliness, but also of her love of soccer. Yes, that is dirt on her face. And yes, I let it stay on during dinner because well, it was hard enough getting her hands clean.

Reason #145,234,109 that we're in trouble - she's competitive and a perfectionist. Oh yes, we knew that, but I don't think we realized how much she was infected until tonight's practice.

See, there's this drill the coach has them do. They run while dribbling the ball as a race. So the goal is to run as fast as you can while keeping control of the ball and then the first one who scores a goal wins. The first time they did this tonight she came in 2nd or 3rd...if she had followed through. See, once she saw that she wasn't coming in first, she quit the drill. And this kept going until she finally won one race and then she completed the drills, even coming in second or later.

There were a few times when she would trip and fall, but she'd get right back up. She ran as hard as she could and only won a few of the drills due to control. Which I hope she understands because she's not the fastest kid on the team. In fact she's close to the bottom in age. We have quite a few 5 and 6yos on the team. Yeah...that's my grrl.

She's strong, fast, smart, and her parents' daughter...dear goddess, we are in so much trouble!