The Ramos Family

Last year, Maria started playing soccer through the city of W. St. Paul and she wanted to play again this summer. It worked out for her to play (during the day) since I was home on maternity leave for a majority of the session. I was talking to one of the coaching assistants, Nicki, and she said she remembered Maria from last year and that she was a lot more outgoing and 'aggressive' this year. I told her kindergarten did her good! They always started practice off with color tag - where either Coach Rainbow or one of the assistants starts off in the middle of the field and all of the kids line up on one side. A color is then called and if you are wearing that color, you have to try and make it to the other side of the field without getting caught. There was one time when Maria was the last kid to get caught - she was pretty proud. Coach Rainbow commented that she's a fast runner. She must get that from Daddy - mommy's all about the slow and steady :) Here are a some of the photos that I took: