The Great Skate

Taylor and I promised James we would take him ice skating and yesterday was the big day. Matthias went to play (sleep) at his friend Ian's house and off we went.


James was SO excited...he was grinning ear to ear and bouncing up and down. He got the cutest little pair of skates and put them on. Taylor and I held his hands and skated around the rink for a while.




Then we went in the middle and let him skate back and forth to us...like a baby learning to walk again! Taylor and James then began skating together as shown...


Taylor held James up and in balance and James moved his feet as fast as he could, propelling them forward. It was great! We really had a blast!

We made it 45 whole minutes before sustaining injury of any kind. James then fell and hit his chin on the ice, splitting it open wide and bleeding everywhere. We had a to buy a $2 bottle of water to clean him up and get a bandaid to hold him together until we got home. He refused to let us take his skates off, so we did a couple more rounds of the rink. By this time he was going into shock and was very compliant to removing the skates...in fact he mostly stared blankly around for the next 30 minutes while we bought butterfly bandages, picked up Matthias, and went home.


After butterflying him together he was in high spirits again, jumping off the couches and running around the room. The whole adventure was great fun!