Sunday, April 3, 2011

Madelyn's finally on skates

Madelyn has been begging for ice skates all winter.  We finally got her a pair for her birthday, but hadn't made it to the rink.  Today she finally got her turn on the ice.  She was SO excited to go.  We got her skates on and put her on the ice, she went "boneless" and said she was all done.  It had literally been 30 seconds.  We sat down on the bench.  After awhile I finally convinced her to try again.  This time she did it, and once she figured out how to stand she thought it was so great.  Her and I spent over an hour going out the door on one side of the bench, skating the 15 feet to the door at the other end of the bench and then walking back to the first door and starting over.  She must have made this loop 50 times.  She kept saying "I want to go on the ice"!   She has literally spent 100s of hours at the rink and never even stepped a foot on the ice until today, it was definitely her turn to shine.  Collin and Ella were adorable cheering her on every very slow step of the way!!

Here's a short video clip of her first time on skates.....


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