It's almost hockey time!

Well, it is getting close to that time of year where skating and hockey sessions start up for the season. Nathan will be starting hockey lessons and needed all the gear to go with it. Here he is all decked out in pads and pants, socks and underwear with a built in cup (he isn't too fond of the cup, I can't imagine it is very comfortable, but invited Nicholas to "knock on it"). Nicholas will be starting skating lessons, but wanted to try on Nathan's gear as to not be left out, so included are some pics of Nick. The pants kept falling down, I guess he needs to gain some weight before he starts hockey next fall. It will be a busy season to say the least!

The Hobo Express

It has been six months since my last blog, sorry I haven't kept current with updates on the boys. Well now that it is summer and school is out for most, I now have time to work on the blog (I also figured out how to download pics with my new camera and computer). The pictures above are from an outing that my dad, myself and the boys took on the Winnipesaukee railroad
during one of the many rainy days we have had this past week. The boys were extremely excited to ride on the train. They got a hobo bag, stick and coloring books, while my dad and I got lunch aboard the train (Nate and Nick had their usual PB&J). We rode from Weirs beach to Meredith station and back to the Weirs. It was a one hour ride and Nathan asked if we could ride it for "three days" After the train ride ended Nicholas spotted the bumper cars and desperately wanted to ride them, however when the time came to actually ride he was a bit apprehensive until I got in the car myself. My dad rode with Nathan and they were constantly on our tail. The day wouldn't have been complete without an ice cream to top off the adventure!

Hitting the Slopes

Nathan riding the magic carpet at Gunstock

Nathan and Nicholas on the magic carpet with me holding Nick's hand

Me, helping Nick glide down the slope

Mami taking Nathan for his first ride on the chair lift

Nathan opening it up at the bottom of the trail with Mami chasing after him



Here are some pics of the boys skiing. It was Nathan's first time this season, he had been twice last year, and Nick's first time ever. The weather was clear but very cold and windy, Nick did not want to be in the wind so I figured he wouldn't even put the skis on. After he watched Nathan come down the bunny slope he decided to give it a try. I think mostly he wanted to ride the magic carpet. He pretty much glided down on his own with just me holding his hand or riding in between Mami's snowplow. Nick went down about 3 or 4 times and decided he was ready to go back to the car. While Nick and I were heading back to the car my mom and Mike stayed with Nathan. Nathan wanted to go on the chair lift so my mom took him up for his first ride. He did very well riding the chair, and skiing down mostly on his own. I think before the season is done both boys will have the hang of skiing!

Christmas 2008

Nathan decided he should try out his cousin Lux's baby stroller to make sure it was working ok

Relaxing with Uncle Mickey after all the festivities

Lux very interested in Nick's cars

Nick loves his firetruck/city which is on the inside

I am finally back up and running with the blog. We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year! One of my Christmas presents was a new camera which wasn't much of a surprise since Nathan was very excited to tell me all about my new camera. However, when Dan was getting the SD card out of the old camera to put into the new one he decided to take the battery out as well and then reinsert it (which I had done numerous times while trying to fix it) and the camera decided to work again. So now I have two cameras which is good in case the old one decides to take a break on me again. The last time I posted was back in October so since then Nathan has been taking skating lessons and is doing very well. Nicholas has gotten on skates and has made progress with standing and bearing his weight on the skates while holding hands with Dan and actually shuffling his feet a little bit. We had a wonderful Christmas filled with love and gifts. The boys were very excited for Santa to come. Nathan did ask how Santa was going to get through our fireplace since we have a glass panel on it? I told him that Santa could put himself inside by magic. He seemed to think a better idea would be for Santa to break the glass. I told him that if Santa broke the glass then he would wake us up and then he wouldn't be able to leave the gifts. That seemed to be a good enough explanation for now! Nicholas was excited as well but hasn't quite started thinking rationally about the entire Santa process, he was just happy to have lots of paper to rip into. Overall it was a great Christmas and a happy new year!