A scholar and an athlete

As much as I hate labelling children in a family, I have to joke about the fact that between Aidan and Gavin, we will end up with a Scholar and an Athlete.

Aidan is fearless, active, physical and has no time to think about letters and sounds and putting them together to make words. Gavin is much more careful with his body and rarely will put himself in a situation where he might actually--gasp--get hurt. He is very interested in what makes things work, sounding out small words and asking countless "Why?" questions. I guess this explains why Aidan has a multitude of bruises and scrapes and Gavin does not.

The boys just finished up their soccer season. They both were excited to play though I suspect it had a little more to do with the fact that their dad was also going to be their coach. So I was taking pictures at the last game and I got some pictures that I think captures their personalities quite well.

Here is Aidan's kick. You can just see by the way his body is positioned all the power his little body put into that kick.

And Gavin's kick. It is almost as if the ball was in his way and he's just kicking it aside.

Who knows? Once they hit Kindergarten in the fall they might surprise me. But for now I am sticking to my labels.