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As parents, if we see a glimmer of interest from our kids in any sport, we want to give them every opportunity to involve them in the sport early on in their lives to foster its growth. Tiger Woods' Dad started coaching Tiger in golf at age 2 or 3. Eli's interest is in any sport, but one of his favorite is soccer. So as an early birthday present to him, we enrolled him in a 10 week soccer camp on Saturday mornings.

When we woke up for his first day, he was excited to go play soccer. You can see the excitement on his face in the above picture. He wanted to bring his soccer ball even though we told him there would be many there.

When we first walked in the doors of the United Sports Training Center, we were floored! We have never been before and it was HUGE! Immediately Eli saw the little soccer dudes and dudettes kicking their balls around. He ran over and excitedly to tried to join in on the fun. Once there, we was a soccer goal shooting maniac!

They had little kid goals that Eli loved shooting the balls into. Proud Mommy Moment: he made so many goals, even from far away! This kid has a gift, people. He cannot even eat with a spoon very well yet, but give him a ball and a goal and he is like Pele! :)

I cannot be sure what he is doing here, but it looks to me like he is dancing with the ball. He does love to dance.

They also had different activities other than soccer goal shooting, like the above parachute. At first Eli wanted nothing to do with the parachute. Every other kid was holding onto it and having fun, but Eli was still shooting goals.....very dedicated to his craft. :)

But then when he realized balloons were involved, he ran over and wanted to kick the balloons like a soccer ball.

Look at that height! That form! That concentrated face! We will be taking calls from scouts now. Act early because this kid is going places! :)