Ice Skating!

Samantha has been begging us for a few months now to take her ice skating.  We didn't mind doing it, but just haven't had much time...until yesterday.  We woke up with nothing too important to do, so we finally took Sam skating.  Actually, Jeremy did and I took pictures and watched Parker.  Fun!  She was so excited and acted like she'd done it a million times.  And to our surprise, she did amazingly well.  We rented a "walker" for her to skate with and after a little while she didn't even want to use it.  At first she fell, but after a few tries she was doing little twirls and skating all by herself!  I was worried that after one fall she'd be done, but she was a trooper and kept on going.  We got her on video doing her freeskating, but no pictures.  I want to try to post a video, but I need Jeremy's expertise, so that will have to wait until later.  Now Sam wants to take ice skating lessons, she tells us.  She'll have to do it a lot more than once before we'll pay that kind of money.  She was very impressive though!



She kinda did look a little old lady at first with that walker.  She kinda walked at first intead of skated.



This is her first attemt at skating by herself.  She did pretty good, but quickly learned about balance. 



After skating she walked around in her skates like they were shoes, no problem!