Little Rookies Part Two

This week went much better.  At least Ben didn't cry!  We put Ben in figure skates instead of hockey skates and went to open skate before Little Rookies to warm up.  Ben is still not loving it, but he's tolerating it.  I think all the equipment is just a bit too much for them.  They'd rather just do the open skate and have fun with their friends.

Green Belt

Sam is still going to karate twice a week and took his green belt test today.  He loves grappling but doesn't much care for sparring because he doesn't like wearing all the pads.  He smiles so much during class that you can't wipe the grin off his face.  It's all just one big, fun game to him!

Honesty

Sam's homework

Little Rookies

Hockey equipment fitting for Little Rookies.  It's a free four week intro to hockey.

The equipment was HUGE.  I ended up putting Ben in all of Sam's old gear and Sam wore most of the stuff they had sized for Ben.

They were sooo excited!

Big mistake!  I put Ben in hockey skates.  He couldn't stay up on them. And after falling a few times he started doing what I called spaghetti legs.  The coaches would try to stand him up and he just wouldn't even try to stand up.  Awesome.

Sam had fun and did a great job in the "advanced" group.

Mustache Day

The day that almost wasn't!  The boys stayed home sick the day before mustache day and they were so glad they were going to be able to go to school the next day.  They didn't want to miss it!  And then I completely forgot about it the next morning and sent them off to school without mustaches.

I suddenly remembered about an hour after I had taken them to school so I rushed back.  Poor Benny had thrown a fit when he realized what day it was and didn't have his mustache.  He didn't want anyone else's mustache either!  He wanted his super special green one.  He agreed to wear a borrowed black one on his shirt "until his mom came with his green one."  So so glad I remembered.