Katrine’s Ice Show

As you may guess, much of this school vacation (aside from actual Christmas festivities) was spent on the ice.  Partially that was because we went skating as a family on the local trail (good way to work off all of those goodies); and partly because Katrine was preparing for an ice show at the center where she skates mornings.  The first week wasn’t so bad as Glenn was off as well so we were able to divide and conquer.  Plus, who ever got the privelege of sitting in the cold also got the precious gift of an hour to themself!! This week was a different story.  Try keeping a two year old entertained for an hour and a half, at an arena for four days running.  At times it was good and at times…painful.  No matter though as all of Katrine’s hard work, Elspeth’s ability to find interesting things in the mundane and my willingness to go crazy pointing out the mundane resulted in a wonderful evening spent with the grandparents.

The show itself was really well put together and ran almost exactly according to plan.  All of the skaters knew what they were doing and ended up looking great on the ice (not surprising really as only dedicated skaters are on the ice five mornings a week before school and over their holidays).  The parent volunteers (sadly, to my shame, I was not one of them as I figured I had already put in my time keeping the wee one from tearing everything apart all week) put together a lovely gallery with bios of each skater, a professional looking program and great costumes.  The older skaters did the younger girls hair and make up.  As a parent, you got to see all of these great up and coming skaters looking their best and skating their hearts out and there is your child, among them.  It made us proud.

Elspeth lasted until just after Katrine skated her first time before she was done with seats, floors, candy, activities and grandparents (which is saying a lot as they are among her favourite people).  She was also suffering from mommy-itis (yeah attachment) so I had to miss the end of the show to bring her home to bed.  When he got home, Glenn told me that all of the kids in the dressing room were laughing and smiling when he went down to pick up Katrine at the end of the show.  They were all so excited at having been part of it all.  This morning Katrine told me that she loved doing the show with all of the stars (decorations), lights and clapping.  “It was so awesome.  I love, love, loved it.”  Guess that says it all.

Oh ya, sorry about the photos but with them skating so fast, all I got were some blurs.