Nora Evelyn

This past Monday was MLK day so Nora’s school closed and I got to spend the morning playing with her. We observed the holiday and Dr. King’s memory as I believe he’d most have wanted; we went ice skating. Nora’s friend Salomé reluctantly gifted these spiffy little skates to her last May when she and her family moved away. This was the first time we’ve gotten to use them and they fit absolutely perfectly. Unfortunately, I was too busy holding up a giggling, wriggling mass of hysterical Nora to get any photos or videos on the actual ice. We both had a wonderful time, laughed until our faces hurt, and then gorged ourselves on hummus and pita while watching professional figure skaters practice on another rink. Great fun.

Apparently these days kids wear bike helmets and use PVC walkers to hold themselves up when ice skating!?? I call bullcrap on this hyper-overprotective behavior. Kids are *supposed* to fall down and go too fast and bonk their heads and cry and get up and do it again. Am I the crazy one?

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