An Ice Skater?

It's spring break for both of the girls this week. Carli was very excited that we were going ice skating. With swimming Carli is very happy to just watch from the sidelines. But ice skating, no way, she wanted on the ice!

They gave her a car to help at the beginning

Then they took it away and the girls thought they should hold hands.

The instructors quickly stopped that.

Carli's up!!! But that didn't last long.

Part of beginning ice skating is learning how to get yourself up once you fall. Carli mostly just yelled for AnLi to help, but the instructors did not want that. This man sat down to show Carli how to get her knee down, etc., but she was NOT listening to that. She just wanted AnLi.

AnLi gave it another try, but that didn't work so well.

So she sat...and sat...and sat.

Her tush had to have been freezing!

The instructor got Carli up and then let these two skate together. It was no use trying to keep them apart. It wasn't going to happen.

And then another little spill. She was half laughing and half cryingSo we'll give this another shot...Didn't work, so this time the instructor just came right over to help.

Thank goodness! Finally ice time was over!

Even though Carli spent the hour mostly sitting on the ice, AnLi getting frustrated that the instructors wouldn't help Carli up or let her use a car, they both really had a good time. Afterwards Carli kept saying, "Carli LIKE skate!" We celebrated their hard work with DQ afterwards.

We won't be doing that again, at least not for a while, and I'm sure the instructors will be happy about that! Maybe dance or piano for Carli instead? :)