Ice Skating

There is an outdoor skating rink at the outdoor mall where Ryan's firm move to over the summer. We were meeting a family there for dinner and to see a little Christmas parade one evening and it happened to be the opening night for the rink. They had Elsa, Anna, and Hans skating out there. It was so cute and Willa was entranced and pretty much pestered us non-stop to go ice skating.

Finally a week later, it was her turn. Ryan started with her while I stayed with June, but I took over after a bit. Ice skating with a child is a labor of love. It probably took us 30 minutes to get around the tiny rink once, but slowly and surely she got used to the feeling and movement and was doing much better. She was in absolute heaven and wanted to stay out forever. She got brave enough to even skate a little without holding onto anything. There were a couple of hard spills, but she loved it. The next day at preschool she drew a picture of us skating at the rink with the Christmas tree in the background. She was so excited to show me the picture, it was adorable. She is dying to go again, but next time I think we will try to find an indoor, less touristy and expensive rink. It was fun for the experience, but now can go the cheapy route :).

It was a really pretty and festive setting with lots of holiday music.

Her drawing, the tree with the star, the blue ice. So sweet.