Sophia the Soccer Player

In Dad’s opinion, the best present Sophia got for Christmas was her first soccer ball!  She started kicking it soon after Christmas, but now she is really starting to get the hang of it (aside from a few handballs…).  It also gives her a good opportunity to practice her new favorite talent: running.  It is not pretty, but she’s getting the hang of moving faster than a walk, often with her arms either straight out in front (the Frankenstein run, often used when chasing her boyfriend Billy who is faster than her) or else arms back behind her (the perpetually-crossing-an-imaginary-finish-line run).  You’ll also see this new thing Sophia does where she backs away from the soccer ball, then runs toward it just like a real soccer player!!  But then she gets up next to it and decides not to kick it after all…  We haven’t figured that one out yet.  The last bit of the video shows another new quirk.  Sophia loves her music so much these days that as soon as a song ends, she often drops what she’s doing to sign ‘more’ because she is too impatient to wait the 5 seconds it takes for the next song to come on.  She’s definitely beginning to develop her bossy side…no telling where she gets it from…

2010.01.19 – Sophia Plays Soccer3

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