Hailey's New Sport

Hailey has been begging me to sign her up for skating lessons since the summer. We had to wait though as she was in cross country and wouldn't be able to make the lessons, and then the next session did not start until November. She even enticed one of her good friends into signing up too. 

She is obsessed with hockey - specifically the Chicago Blackhawks. She does this - she gets fixated on one thing and she is relentless in learning more about it and in this case - the team, hockey in general and learning how to skate. It's been a good 8-9 months where she's gone from just liking hockey to being all about it. It must have something to do with Connor Bedard. The season just started six weeks ago and she's already been to three games. But, let's see how long this obsession lasts. 

So each Friday at 5:15pm she goes to lessons and is on skating lesson #3 and making progress each week too. At her last class, she was definitely going faster and turning more so she fell four times but she absolutely loves it and never wants to miss a class. 

She may be the only one of my three kids who learns how to ice skate! I may have someone to skate with now! I actually used to own skates when I was a little younger than her. We had a pond behind one of the houses I grew up in so we'd go out to the pond and skate when time allowed. We didn't have lessons. We just figured it out. But I remember always knowing how to ice skate as well as roller skate. 

If she passes this level, she'll advance to level 2. And, of course she's already asked if she can sign up for that class. Her end goal is to get on the ice with a stick and puck!