Last Weekend

Sledding in the backyard.

"Again, again!"

Helping me assemble my Valentine's Day gift.

 Complete.  

"Do a nice smile, Jack."

"Mom, can you take my picture?"

- S.

Snowshoe, Again

We made the best of the recent snow and went snowshoeing again, this time down the street at Lynn Woods.  The temperature was reasonably mild and the car ride was short enough to not hear, "Are we there yet?" from the backseat.  

Much of the snow has melted at this point, so it remains to be seen whether we will get another snowshoe excursion in this season, or if we will have to travel some distance to do so.

- S.

New Hampshire

A few weeks ago we went up to Lincoln, NH to see the ice castles.  I made the plans before fully realizing all the other stuff there is to do in the area is not open during ski season.  But we managed to keep busy.

First of all, Jack was excited to find a vintage set of Lego at the condo.

Ice castles in daytime...

...and at night.  We went around 4:00 so we could see both versions.

Small ice slide.  

There was a larger (faster) one that Derrick and Jack went on together.

There were also tunnels to climb through.  Here is Derrick's bum.

And a picture Derrick took of Jack climbing through the tunnel in front of him.

This picture makes my breath go shallow every time.

There were rooms of different colors to go in and explore.

And this ceiling was particularly neat.

Waiting for pizza after ice castles.

The next day we went to Cannon Mountain and rode the tram to the top.

It was a beautiful day to go to the top of a mountain.

 Jack was much more relaxed on the way down 

when he finally realized we weren't going to make him ski. 

(See previous post.)

 We also visited the New England Ski Museum.

Perhaps we will go back up to this area in the summer when there are a lot of different things to do.  Though if Jack had his way on this trip I think he would have been happy to stay in the condo and play with Lego, go up and down the ladder of the bunk bed 100 times, and marvel at having a TV in "his room."   

- S.

A few weeks ago, Derrick took Jack to try out skiing for the first time.  They went with Derrick's friend John and his son Nate.  Long story short, Derrick reported that Jack was doing well and then decided he was done via an epic meltdown.  We can only speculate what exactly happened since Jack was unable to articulate a reason, but he has stated maybe he will try skiing again when he is 10.

The day was not a completed loss though as Jack had fun hanging out with Nate and pretending to play video games and everyone enjoyed going to the bar for some lunch and hot chocolate.

Jack has maintained he did have fun snowshoeing and is open to going again, so there's that.


- S.

Four Eyes

Jack looking good in my glasses.

- S.