Spring Break Ice skating

When my nephew came to visit, he discovered there is a skating rink nearby and it is pretty cheap to go. 
Of course the next week we did go skating.  Buddy loves it and trailed around an older boy the whole time.

Princess skated slowly and chatted with this other girl the whole time.  I got to skate alone and take pictures.

Christmas 2012 part 2

We did spend Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa and the family in Mass, again this year there was not much snow, but we had lots of rain and lots of fun.

Hanging out with Grandpa and using snap-circuits.

 Ice skating with Aunt Ruth and the cousins- This is one of Aunt Ruths typical expressions.  It make me smile.

 Buddy loves the ice and has picked up a lot of speed.  He loves it.

 The girls however loved skating with Mrs. Claus, this was after she handed out candy canes.

 These 2 girls had to be together the whole day.  They are a year apart in age and almost exactly the same size.  They could be twins.

 We had all 3 kids sleeping in one room, we were never sure where they would be when we checked on them.  These 2 slept together more than once.

 We did go on a short and VERY COLD hike one sunny morning.  Boots would have been better than shoes.  We turned around pretty quick.

 The ice on the canal was pretty.

 Buddy got a chance to go play hockey with Uncle Scott.  He loved it and had to put on a lot of gear.

 In this picture #87 is his 9-yr old cousin. He has been playing hockey for years.

 He shoots, He SCORES!

Thank you Uncle Scott!

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.