Skating Update

Yesterday was Arabella's last skating lesson of the session. Even though she has a hard time making it through the whole half hour lesson, she has made great progress. I can't wait to take her to the rink in the park right up the street from our house to get some more practice in. Great job Arabella, keep up the good work, soon you will be skating circles around Mom and Dad!

Skating With Dad

Arabella has been doing good with her skating lessons even though she only lasts about 15 or 20 minutes of the 30 minute lesson. Usually she will say "All done, too hard" and we explain to her that it is hard since she is learning, but that over time it will get easier for her. She also asks for Jay to skate with her sometimes instead of me, so this week, he broke down and went and bought new hockey skates! Yesterday, he went on the ice with her and she had fun, but when she was done, she was done.





Hopefully, now that they have the rink up at our neighborhood park and once the ice is ready, we can go up and practice when we want. It still boggles my mind that a town park would take on the liability of having a skating rink that is unsupervised and open all the times on public property...must be the litigator in me!

Skating Update

Yesterday, Arabella had her third skating lesson and she did AMAZING!! She seems to only want to last about 15 or 20 minutes of the 30 minute class, but that is OK since she is working so hard. Yesterday, we used foam balls in the class and we would throw them and she would skate after them. I was so surprised when she was able to do this:

I think she was as surprised by her ability to skate by herself as we were! She did such a great job! Keep it up Arabella, you will be a little ice princess before we know it!!

Skating Lessons

Today, Arabella had her first ice skating lesson. It is a parent and tot class and I went on the ice with her today since Jay doesn't have ice skates. Not only did Arabella do great, but I didn't fall and bust my butt! She was very excited to get out on the ice when we arrived at the arena and after getting her skates and helmet on, we headed out. I was amazed at how well she did, even when she slipped and fell down, she still got back up and was a good sport throughout the 1/2 hour class. I have a feel that she is going to do great over the next 10 weeks and she will be having a fun time doing so!