Saturday we headed off to the ice park with Alek (a friend of Arthur's) and his family. It's sort of a family tradition to walk through the park and look at the beautiful ice carvings (truly, some are amazing!). This year didn't disappoint. We, unfortunately, did not get any pictures, but there must have been some kind of aquatic theme...many of them were of fish or other sea creatures.But I digress.
With an almost two year old, things have to be done differently. Arthur just doesn't have the stamina it takes to wander through each row, commenting about what he likes about this block of ice or that one.
It's just not going to happen.
So, this year, Robinson and I decided that it was probably better for all involved to just check out the ice slides. We went to the small slides first - just to get Arthur familiar with what we were going to do. He loved them! He wanted to go again and again and again. He even tried going down the hill on his stomach. Then, we saw the even bigger slides just down the hill. We went down the smaller slides a few more time, then showed Arthur the big slides and he decided he wanted to go over there to check them out.
We didn't bring a sled with us, but Alek was nice enough to let us to borrow his. Arthur was a little hesitant at first, after going down with Robinson once, he absolutely loved them. At the bottom, Arthur signed "more, more!" and he and Robinson went down again. And again and again. I even went down one of the sides with him. For a split second, I thought I was going to have a heart attack because I hadn't expected the slide to be so damn fast. I think I absolutely would have loved this as a kid. I can't wait until Arthur's old enough to actually enjoy these slides and want to stay half a day to play.
Afterward, we went to lunch with Uncle Johnny and Uncle Paul. Arthur had a ham sandwich with extra pickles, a hard-boiled egg, tomatoes, and cucumbers.It was a perfect, fun-filled winter day.
Blessed be.
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