Skiing

Quinn and I have started ski lessons at Mt. Baker every Sunday for 4 weeks! He and I are going up by ourselves most weekends, with Rich and Nolan staying home for some daddy, noli time. I was a little nervous going up last Sun because there was a prediction for lots of snow and I imagined the roads snowy the entire way. Nope, all was clear! It was a gorgeous day up there; much more so than down in town!

Quinn has been on skis a few times a year since he was three but these are his first organized lessons. There are 2 other parent/child sets in our lesson- nice and small! One of the kids is a girl who was in preschool with him! Bellingham/Whatcom County can be so small sometimes.

Waiting in line for the rope tow and watching people struggle with it, I thought two things: 1) I'm very glad my parents got me and my siblings on skis early (2nd grade) and 2) I'm very glad Rich and I are doing the same with our kids! Older kids and adults just learning had a much harder time with the rope tow than the little kids.

 

The mantra for the day became "Hands on knees, looking to the trees!" It was such a good day that he didn't want to leave! I knew it was time because he was having mini breakdowns at the top of the run when he'd get frustrated, then would be fine once he got going. We ended at a good time because he keeps asking when we get to ski again :).

Nolan REALLY wants to ski too. We'll get him up a few times this season. He has been practicing walking in his ski boots :).