Hockey

Not much new to report on the health end of things--Jason is feeling well and he has a week and a half until his next treatment.

The kids are doing great. Each day is a joy to be with them. They are definitely a handful but really good kids. They have been in hockey for about 5 weeks now and I cannot believe how much they have improved in this short period of time. Taylor no longer complains about it being "hockey practice" and seems to be enjoying it. She didn't want to be in hockey practice, she wanted to be in figuring skating, however, for my sanity of not having to run around all week long to the ice rink, we chose to put Taylor and Easton together in hockey and then they both could learn to skate. Well, Taylor always said that she was going to "skating lessons" and Easton always said he was going to "hockey practice" even though is was the same thing. She no longer corrects us when we say hockey which is a good thing. We do have a deal with her though that if she likes skating and wants to continue with it she can do figure skating like her cousin Tana in the next session. Taylor is all about the music, the costumes, and the performance--she'll love it.

As for Easton, he is a bit of a challenge on the ice sometimes. Easton wants to be the best at everything and he can't stand it when someone is better than him. I have to tell you, Easton is a very good skater for being 3 years old, and I'm not just saying that because he's my son. He is just a natural born athlete. He either chooses to be on or off for each practice. Take for example this past week. Saturday they had hockey and my parents came up to watch. Easton would not do anything but stand there stiff as a board on the ice or follow Jason around the ice complaining and whining about how he can't skate, that he keeps falling (he doesn't realize that he just chased his dad around the whole rink and was skating just fine). Jason has a hard time dealing with Easton when he gets like that--he just wants him to stop whining and just start skating. So needless to say, Easton's hockey outing on Saturday was probably one of his worst performances thus far. Then, at Wednesday night's practice, Easton had his best performance so far. He did awesome. He's the youngest kid out there, yet he was doing all the drills that the other kids were doing, following directions, and yes skating very well. You could tell that he was having such a great time and when he came off the ice, he was so proud of himself. That's a much better Easton to deal with then his grumpy self! It was funny, he said to Jason before practice that day, "I don't want to skate faster than you, I just want to skate as fast as you!" You gotta love it.

Blessings on your day! Joslyn