Reagan had her first skating experiences last week. One unofficial lesson (more like a trial run in getting her skates and helmet on) with mom and dad and then an official lesson on Saturday. As you can see, the results of the unofficial lesson were not what we had hoped for, but she did look cute (and really that is all that matters.)
On Saturday, she had much more success and was actually moved from the white class (kids with no skating experience at all) to the green class (kids who had skated before). Maybe it was that unofficial lesson that made her so proficient and allowed her to move up so quickly. I think it was the fact that she did not cry when she fell, unlike most of the other kids. At the end though, she was sad and we asked why. She responded "my arm and my booty hurt!" It was pretty funny. She also said that she did not do a good job because "I couldn't skate fast." I think she is more of a daredevil than anything as was seen when she jumped off the big trampoline at gymnastics Monday night onto a wooden box landing on her knees (about 18 inches high) and started laughing (I about had a heart attack.).
She has her second lesson on Saturday so we will see how that goes, but I am not booking my trip to the 2014 Olympics in Russia quite yet.
Another update with Reagan is that she graduated from "pre-school" last week after mastering all of the lesson plans and started "kindergarten" on Monday. I guess she is the youngest kid ever at the daycare to begin the kindergarten classes. Great...so I have a child prodigy on my hands who will still be wearing diapers when she starts college at the age of 12! That for sure will make People Magazine.
We did make some progress there as well as she actually wore a princess pull-up last night and again this morning. She still has not gone on the potty yet, but I guess it is a start (although Pull-ups are really, really expensive so I hope she figures this out pretty quick).
Gotta "go, go, go,"
Reagan's mom
