Skate time!

Today we took a trip to Oaks Park with our playgroup for some preschool skate time. It was an hour and a half of learning to skate for 6 year olds and younger. They tought them some basic balancing rules and such and then played some hokey pokey, did a choo choo train line, and then some on your own skate time. Then snack, then Chipper the squirel came out(a person in a big costume)...which Zach LOVED and wouldnt stop touching him. Chipper then did the chicken dance with all of them. And then they served cookies and milk to the kids for snack and then it was back on the floor for more skate time. Zach however, at that time, decided he was done and took off his skates and just ran around the rink with his cousin Gwen while Eli continued to master skating...and bruising of his bottom. He was such a trooper! The boy was doing so good for his first time on skates, but the poor kid would fall occasionally and it wasnt very pleasant. STRAIGHT down on his bottom every time. He would tear up, sometimes a real hurting cry, and get himself back up on his skates not wanting me to help him..and off he'd go again to try some more. It gave me such flashbacks to my days as a kid and loving the skate rink. I remember those awful falls, and not wanting to quit no matter how bad my bottom hurt. When it was time to leave, he was very sad and begged to stay. So I think we're going to have to go skating more often now...