floor hockey

Alex has been taking a sports class through the park district and he has been loving it! They work on different sports, but mainly, this term, they've been working on floor hockey in preparation for a park district tournament. In order to make a team, they combined Alex's class with the actual floor hockey class. Last night was their first game in the tournament. Alex had volunteered to be the team's goalie and that is the position he had been practicing at all term. The thought of him as goalie made me a nervous wreck! He can be so hard on himself sometimes and if the other team scored on him, I thought it could send him over the edge. Well, he did awesome!! I was so impressed! They did score on him, twice, but he dealt with it and kept going. He made some very impressive saves too!! He got quite a workout, as he played goalie the whole game and the other team made lots of scoring attempts.

(you've got to love the park district's makeshift equipment)


It was so much fun to watch! The other mothers from the class were really nice and we laughed and cheered together. You couldn't help getting into the game! Especially when they won....
.... 3-2.... now on to the next round!

Such a fabulous night for Alex.... he rarely gets positive feedback when it comes to sports... especially team sports... but he made some big saves right at the end and his teammates ran over to tell him "good job" when the game ended. The moms all made a point to say something to him too. Even the ref from the game stopped him as he went out to congratulate him on his saves. I know it's just a little tournament for a park district class... but for a kid who is generally picked near the last for sports... this was HUGE!! :-)