Sports

As a child, I wasn't very athletic. I did dance, but other than the twice a week classes, I did almost nothing. So it's surprising to me that my kids and our whole family are so active.

Hockey Practice

Their chosen sport is ice hockey. Strange to me, but they love it. They have practice twice a week where they rotate through drills and games. They come out completely sweaty and with giant smiles.

Monkey Bars

We also go on long bike rides at least once a week - by long I mean 5 miles typically. Both kids ride without training wheels and they think it's fun, not exercise. We often stop in the middle to play at a park. Sometimes we stop at multiple parks so the kids can run off extra energy. She will do loops of monkey bars for 30 minutes. He usually climbs and runs around the playground.

Wordless Wednesday

Hockey Academy!

Ice Hockey (part 2)

More of our introduction to hockey class! You can see just how much fun they are having.

Another day, another game

Break away and go after the puck!

There's Sweet Daughter checking someone twice her size... It only took her a few weeks to figure out how to do it effectively rather than just bouncing off of them. (No, they are not supposed to check at this age.)

Go for a goal!

It's like watching little kids play soccer only much, much funnier.

Ice Hockey (part 1)

The kids love the Little Rookies program. I mentioned it last month when they started. Here are some photos from the end of the 4 week session. You can really see just how far they have come.

Ready to go on the ice

That looks difficult

Everyone this way!

Time for a hockey game

There is a feeling of pride when your kid is the only one standing at any given moment.

Switching stations to keep it interesting

Hockey

Here are the best photo from the kids first day of little rookies hockey.

They don't look very intimidating.

The first thing they teach the kids is how to raise their sticks up and not hit people.

Once all the kids are on the ice they lay down and learn how to stand up. There are a ton of kids, but there are also 10-12 coaches. After practicing standing up they told everyone to skate to one side. This is how they divided up the class. Those that could skate went to one side. Those that couldn't make it were in the other group. Very effective.

Sweet Son made it into the "able to skate" group. Sweet Daughter who can skate pretended she couldn't so she could stay with the female coach. She only made that choice once, haha.

Sweet Son is getting ready to score a goal! (He's the one in the center of this photo.)

Sweet Daughter scoring a goal. This group spent most of their time learning how to stand up.

After class they were so happy. We knew they were hooked. This is the first sport they have both really loved.

Ice Skating

The hotter it is outside, the more we appreciate ice skating. This post has a surprise at the end.

They are becoming more confident on their skates.

They are skating faster and without help. Clearly it is time for a new challenge.

That's right. We signed them up for hockey. There is a great program near us called Little Rookies. It is a month of once a week hockey classes. It is FREE and includes the use of full equipment. This is a great chance to find out if they like hockey before making a full investment. Come back tomorrow to see photos of their first class.