Saturday we went to the rink for Caden's first skating lesson with his friend Cole S. Cole's aunt is going to be teaching the boys to skate! Unfortunately due to car trouble, they couldn't make it.. but it worked out fine just to get Caden on the ice and feel what it was going to be like. You can see from the first 2 pictures, Caden held on for dear life!! He was still excited, but as expected a bit apprehensive! And you can probably tell that Rob's back had a bit of a crick by the end of the afternoon!
After the first lap Caden decided he wanted to put his snow pants on... He didn't want them in the beginning, we tried. So once he was all geared up the went out for the 2nd lap (each lap probably took 10-15 minutes!) For the second lap Caden had started getting his rink legs, and didn't need to hold on for dear life anymore! He skated around just holding Rob's hands, and by the second half of the lap he was able to skate in front of Rob.
On to the third and final lap Caden insisted Rob let go of him!! And he didn't want any assistance when he fell. Until he felt how cold the ice is without mittens on that is!! We were so proud that Caden was so brave! As many of you know he is generally slow to warm up to new situations, so his instant love and excitement for skating was very gratifying! He still has a long way to go before he'll be skating on his own, but so far he is making great progress.
Next week if all goes well he and Cole S. will have their lesson together! Right now we are just renting skates from the rink, but now that we know he likes it if he continues to like it we'll get him some hockey skates.. he doesn't use the toe pick now, so hopefully it'll be an easy switch.
3 comments:
Yea! It looks like they both had a great time!! It stinks we missed it- we'll definitely be there next week.
Love, love, LOVE the new photo of the boys as your header. It is adorable.
We are looking forward to next week! I love the pic too.. Rob took it one day when I wasn't home when the boys were eating lunch. I just wish he had wiped the cream cheese off of Cole's face first! I guess it just adds to the photo?! haha!
The ice skating legs makes perfect sense. He is 1/4 Toledo-an, where all children are born with ice skates. Soon he'll be playing ice hockey with his Dad, and probably beating him by age 5! (Take that, Robbie!)
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