Pequeño and Soccer

Pequeño has a love/hate relationship with soccer. This is his first season playing and it's been an interesting one so far. 

He loves to tell everyone that he plays soccer, loves to put on his soccer themed clothing (and shin guards which aren't required for this class), and loves to practice dribbling and kicking the ball in our yard. 

However, he has a tantrum every.single.time that he is told that we are on our way to his soccer class. EVERY TIME. Once we get there, he takes a few minutes to warm up to the idea of playing soccer again with the same group of kids that he plays with every week and usually spends a few minutes making sure that I'm not leaving (it's a "parent and me" class but the kids are playing on their own with little help/redirection from parents at this point). 

Once they start practicing and playing games, he is back to loving it however he will occasionally just walk off the field and say "I don't want to play this game.", take a look at the fun that the other kids are having, and run back out to join in again.

Then on the car ride home, he'll excitedly talk about all of the things he did at soccer and he immediately wants to go practice more once we get home.