Our Skating Adventure!

Here's Auntie Kathryn and Alex "The Wet Noodle" Beck, ha ha!


Here are the boys and the ladies leaving the ice


Joseph posing for Uncle Jeff


Halleluah! We survived skating!





Tonight was lesson #3 for the boys and lesson #1 for me. Aaron was feeling a bit under the weather tonight so Auntie Kathryn volunteered to take his spot and Uncle Jeff offered to be the camera man. The boys skated up and were really excited to get on the ice. And then they had split personalities: Joseph seems to have been born to skate and Alex got the nickname Wet Noodle from Uncle Jeff for obvious reasons. Joseph also got to be the wolf in "What Time is it Mr. Wolf?" He felt like a total celebrity, it was hilarious! I talked to the skating teacher about getting bobskates for Alex but she thinks we should just tough it out and perservere. She said it'll be harder in the long run to try and switch him from the double blades to a single blade. After skating we picked up coffee for the big kids and timbits for the little kids and headed home. It was a great evening all around!
We've made our plans to head down to the Hat this Thursday. The plan is for Auntie Kathryn to pick up the boys Thursday noonish, the dayhome kids will be picked up by 1 and then Aaron and I can head down to the Hat and hopefully be able to check in to our hotel and have a quick bite before we go to Jeff's prayer service. Friday is the funeral service at 11 so I imagine we'll be home late Friday evening. The boys are looking forward to having a sleepover with Kathryn and Jeff. We would have gladly taken the boys with us but in reality we know they'll have more fun if they stay here than if they go with us. It sounds like they're going to the zoo and maybe swimming, and they've also got Lyla and Hamish (K & J's chocolate lab) for entertainment. Alex really loves Hamish, he talks about him all the time and always wants to know what he's doing.
Tomorrow Aaron runs the PARE and from there he just has to submit his application to the Calgary Police Servies and then it's the waiting game...