Spencer has been waiting a week to do this and here he is loving it. I really thought he would be the one on the floor crying, but that was Alexis for most of her lesson. Spencer just kept smiling and getting up everytime he fell, I was really impressed. Maybe someday he will play hockey!
So when Alexis was up it was usually with a death grip to the side of the rink. She did manage to stand up for a few minutes, although I don't really think she moved, until she fell. Poor girl. Here she is after her lesson with gloves from the lost and found since I left hers and only hers in the dryer at home. She hates using other people stuff, she is a germaphobic and I don't blame her, the lost and found is a really gross place to borrow from. She did spend quite a bit of time on her booty and crawling around the ice crying. One of the guys who works there, the only one I have ever talked to said that sometimes he lets the parent go out on the ice with their kid to help, but then he looked at Gavin and said, "But you have him!" I think he thought I was nuts with all four of my kids at an ice skating rink. I guess sometimes us moms would rather be crazy somewhere else besides our own homes so thats why we do it!
Ok, this is as bad as it looks. Arden I think, has been waiting her entire lifetime to go ice skating. She was actually doing really well at her first lesson, when I look over from Spencer's lesson and see that Arden's class had migrated to the other side of the rink. Arden was out of the rink, barfing in the closest garbage can. Poor girl spent some time hovering over an auto-flush toilet in the women's restroom (so gross). I just happened to have the camera around my neck, she was like, "Mom, why are you taking my picture?" Because this is kinda funny I told her. She did not get that of course. When she returned to her lesson it was over, although she still got to skate for 20 minutes until she found her next garbage can and... What a trooper, Arden will do anything (even sick), except be alone!
