he skates

School resumed for us today and with it came *the event* we've been talking up for weeks now. Ephram's first time on the ice!  

I'm not sure how the occasion has eluded us for so long. Firstly, being that we're from small town Saskatchewan and secondly that I'm pretty sure both mine and Rob's childhoods were spent as much in arenas and on backyard ice rinks as they were indoors. 

Yes! 

Even me, who really can't recall ever wanting to play outdoors, loved to skate and the proof is in the amount of pictures my parents have stored away of me in various neon colored snowsuits and figure skates on the ice my dad so lovingly, and maybe begrudgingly (those nights were cold I'm sure), built for us over the garden every winter. 

We have no excuse for not taking him until now. Just that time moves too quickly and it got away from us. But the day finally came for Ephram and after some trepidation the night before he took to it like a pro! Or at least with determination and confidence. 

Either way, he did it! 

And loved it!

And we are so proud.