First Tracks

Yesterday LT went sledding at Jefferson park with some of his little friends. Left to right above is LT, Sofia, Dylan, and Z.


LT's sled was a big hit with the boys and lots of exercise for the parents.

But then Dylan (who's mom is a former pro skier and dad works for one of the major ski rags) suggested that maybe we should take it up a notch and offered to let us borrow his ski gear.

LT thought, "hey, why not?"

So Kari strapped on the boots...

and she was nice enough to let me take LT on his first ever ski run.

He was laughing and smiling the whole way!


Kari took a video of us on run #2 but let's just say it wasn't her finest work - it bounced around so much that it nearly made me sick watching it. We switched for the third run and I managed to get some video that, while not great, is at least watchable. He still had fun but three runs seemed to be the limit and at the end of the video you can her LT say, "off, off" to announce that he was done with the skis for a while.

Z was next up on the skis and you can see that he enjoyed himself as well.
Apres ski activities included making a big snow man.

Admiring the snow man.

'Cooking' with snow.

And admiring the snow man some more.

At one point LT wondered over to the skis all by himself and tried to clip in wearing only his shoes.
So Ben (Dylan's dad) was kind enough to gear LT up for the second time.

And help him get in a little more vertical for the day.