Logan Learns to Skate!

Last week was a blur.  Both kids were sick and we were dealing with all kinds of crazy stuff around here.  Logan got a cold and started to have his croupy cough at night, but luckily he kicked it pretty quick.  Bennett doesn't seem to fight things off as well as Logan.  When he started to get sick, he just got sicker.  He had a fever for almost the whole week.  It was so sad.  Our poor Benny boy was not himself.  The best medicine: a quiet weekend at home!  We had a really great weekend nursing the kids back to health.  Lots of rest, playtime, and snuggles.  It was so awesome!  On Sunday night, Bennett's fever finally broke and we went with to watch Logan at his first Learn to Skate class!

Logan was on skates a few times last year, but of course he needed "new" (new = used from Play It Again Sports!) ones this year for his growing feet.

Logan was so excited for his first lesson!  It was actually the third week in the session, but we've been gone the last two weeks, so it was Logan's first time.

Logan calls it, "hockey".  Oh boy.

Logan practiced walking around the house in his skates and here he practiced outside the rink with John on how to get up: one leg at a time.

I wanted to be sure Logan wore a helmet.  I just kept envisioning the kids falling and whacking their heads on the ice.  I thought we could probably find a sleek helmet, like a ski helmet that could be used for multiple things.  We had this hockey helmet in with our toys at home and Logan loves to wear it when he runs around playing hockey downstairs.  John had it fitted with a new strap and its good as new.  It fits him perfectly, so I guess its appropriate!  This helmet was given to us by the Donnellans - it was David's when he was little and now he plays D1 hockey in college!

Hockey mom in the making?  The jury is still out...

Logan and Daddy got about 30 min on the ice together before it was time for the lesson.

Logan needed a little pep talk from his teachers.  Poor guy was a little behind the other kids since he missed a few lessons.  He was sad to be on the ice so much and not able to walk and skate around easily, but it will get much better with a couple more lessons.

At one point, Logan came off the ice because he was getting a little sad.  We talked to him and he decided to go back out on the ice.  We were so proud that he went back out and kept trying!

I think this was Logan's favorite part: watching the Zamboni!  Ned and Lisa Donnellan came to watch Logan's lesson.  Here is Logan with Lisa watching the Zamboni.  Lisa watched Logan every Monday night for almost two years and their favorite book to read was "Z is for Zamboni".  Cute!

Very special thanks to Baggie and BopBop for sponsoring Logan's skating lessons and for the new skates!  We are thankful and Logan sure loves "being a hockey player!".  Love you!