So what do you guys like to do for fun?
Precious and rare free time is spent watching YouTube, cleaning the home, or blogging ;). When I was doing my internship as a senior in college I worked with a girl who was my age and married. She said her favorite thing to do with her husband was watch TV and make fun of people.
Without even trying, Tyler and I have taken up a new activity....
ROLLER SKATING! Whaaa???
Let's back up a bit. Ted is getting so good at skating in his class. I am completely bragging when I say he was probably the second best skater next to a little girl who is closer to 5 and has been taking classes for a while now. I only held his hand once in class and he was leading the pack in all the activities.
In the beginning of class the teacher told all the kids to warm up by skating to a far wall and back. Ted finished the task and came back to the shade to sit down and wait until everyone else was done. The instructor saw him and asked, "Don't feel like skating today?" I told her he had already skated down and back. With shock in her voice she confessed that she must not have seen him. It seems as though Ted was slipping under her radar quite a bit with all the different activities but he won't for long. He is proving to be quite the skating stud.
This class we learned about breaking and crossing one skate over the other when taking a turn. Crossing skates was pretty hard for Ted since they are so huge on him. At the park where class is held there is also a basketball court. The kids skated to the court and practiced skating on the lines in circles.
To my mom: skating on the lines in a circle totally made me think of you :)
Ted got a kick out of the teacher showing the little people how it is done. She whizzed around the circle crossing one skate over the other as she took the turns and showed what skating can really look like. I was so happy she did this because it was a visual to Ted of how fun skating can be. He loved it.
Now back to Tyler and me. When I signed Ted up for skating classes Tyler mentioned we should buy skates too so we can skate around with Ted. I wrote off the idea because I figured Ted would not be going that fast anyway and it would be more beneficial to him to be in shoes so I could catch him. But all this skating exposure has reawakened the skating bug in me. This past weekend we went to the skating rink and I picked out some roller skates. I opted for these over blades because they are more fun. Tyler was more into rollerblading growing up so we went to the sports store across the street from the skating rink to look for blades for him. After a few laps around the bike section in a pair of inlines he decided he liked the feel of skates over blades so it was back to the rink to get him a pair.
Thank goodness for a stroller! It is much easier to skate around the city while pushing a sturdy baby buggy. The Opfar family has taken a couple trips around the neighborhoods in our new skates (Ted either rides in the stroller or rides his bike for now). It is a blast and we finally have something we can tell people that we like to do :)
Oh, we also both have yoga mats we bought a few months back when I started taking a pilates class from a girl I go to church with so I guess we do that together too. Hahaha. We are a yoga/pilates and roller skating couple... who would have thought?
Funny Californian story...
As we were checking out at the sporting goods store I was hanging out with Ted who was holding his sand pale and shovel. A worker asked if we had just come from the beach. I replied no, Ted just likes carrying around his bucket. The worker began to talk to Ted about how summer is coming and he can go to the beach all the time isn't that exciting? It will be all sunny and warm in the summer!
What???? She does realize it is sunny 99.99% of the time here right? hahaha Oh I love it.
Looks like fun!
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