Ice Skating

It feels like the kids haven't had any school this month.  They had 2 days off for teacher work days, the next week they had 3 days off due to a hurricane, the next week they had 2 days off for Parent teacher conferences and now they have one full week of school before Thanksgiving. It is a little crazy. 

I am working hard to keep them entertained.  Last week was ice skating.  The rink here opened already and I packed them up and took them on a Friday morning.  Friday mornings are typically dubbed "homeschool" days.  They open at 10 AM and when we went it was empty, Other than a few people who showed up and skated for about 30 minutes.  We had the rink to ourselves, plus the skate guard was bored and spent a lot of time helping my kids since I was rink-side with Scout. It was in the 50's so a great temperature to play outside. 

Off to the rink - it takes a long time for one parent to lace of 3 sets of skates and try to keep a toddler from running away.

 Snow pants keep you dry and are a little padding when you fall.

 They even had walkers for the little ones to practice.

 Then they fall.

 And stop moving.

 This one on the sidelines never stopped moving.

 Except to sit down and have a snack.

 Notice the skate guard helping Munchkin.  He was great.