WE STARTED HOCKEY ON OCTOBER 1st...
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| JUST GETTING THE HANG OF IT |
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| KEELY OFFERING SOME MORAL SUPPORT |
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| TRYING TO LEARN HOW TO GET UP |
The IP hockey program started and guess who's in it :) He was soooo excited. He's number 9, the same number Danielle was in basketball. However the first thing he said when he saw his jerseys was, "My jerseys say 'donits' on em". HUGE HIT! Then when we were driving home afterward he said, "I call my brudder and say, 'Bady, I pay hockey wike you.'"
That first day, I cried watching him hang over the skatebuddy and start to move his little feet on the ice. I was so proud of him. I was afraid it might be kind of a big deal that I couldn't go out on the ice with him; he kept saying he wanted me to go with him. But he was ok with it since Chris (Keely's dad) was one of the coaches.
A lot of the 4-year olds started with skatebuddies. They have to be able to stand up and move on the ice before they can use a stick, of course. Today we were one of two still using the buddy, but he's doing much better. He's sturdier on his skates now and can turn the buddy to get where he wants to go.
We usually last about 20 -30 minutes out of the hour-long session. Last week, if he was done and was on the other side of the rink, he'd drop and actually roll across the ice to the door and lay there and holler for me. Now he can push himself to the door with the buddy. He also couldn't get himself up at all after he'd fall. Now he can roll over, sit up and sometimes pull himself up using the buddy to get to a standing position. We're making great gains! And all of his coaches are awesome!
Speaking of gains, he's also started pooping in the flush. Believe me, there were some pretty good prizes for that - a stuffed seahorse, construction dinky trunks, a Buzz and Woody T-shirt, a couple of new books and now we're down to a few Smarties each time. It's wonderful to see how proud he is of himself.
Tomorrow we're off to the dentist, then to Public Health to get a flu shot and his 4-year needle. I'll need to come up with a pretty good prize for all of that, too.
I registered him for Kindergarten last week. I still can't believe it. We've got some open-houses to go to and some testing to be done for that. Kindergarten. Wow. And he's growing so fast lately. I've had to completely outfit him again - everything from socks and undies (I found digger undies!!!), to pants, shirts, shoes, pjs, jacket and next will be ski pants and boots. It seems like we can watch him getting taller every day.
Brady had his wisdom teeth out the Friday before Thanksgiving. It made for a blucky couple of days, but he recovered pretty quickly. He was a bit sleepy though. Kellan had a cold, so the boys settled down on our bed since they weren't feeling great. I snapped pictures of them.
One thing he loves to do now is help with the wood. He asks Sherman every day if they can put in wood. Sherman splits his wood at my dad's shore. So, they go in the truck and load it up and bring it home, then pile it in our basement. He's actually a big help. He throws the wood from the back of the truck to the tailgate where Sherman can get it. He's got these little work gloves like Sherman's that he wears. The problem is, the wood's all in and it's like his most favorite thing to do now. Honestly though, if there's work to be done, this boy wants to be in the middle of it. I bet it won't be too many years before he's begging to go set traps. Heaven help me.
Halloween's coming right up. I'll try to post something as soon after as I can. We've had his costume for about a month and a half now. He's pretty excited to wear it. We're going to make cookies for his party at Preschool. More to follow...
