Lorelei was quite lucky on the ice this past week. First, Tobias was a good coach to her, then, he started pulling her on the sled! This was loads of fun for Lorelei. It started out like this, with her sitting down, but later on she was lying on that thing face forward. She fell off once in a while, but that only created more fun and laughs, from both of them! On top of that, Tobias was sooooo proud of himself…!
Needless to say, lots of fun for me too :-).
If you look outside today it might just as well have never happened, but this picture was taken last Sunday, the last skating day of the season and the last time we went. It was just me, Tobias and Lorelei. Tobias is completely self-sufficient now, and as you saw in a previous blogpost, a pretty descent coach as well. And guess what, it worked! Here you can see Lorelei skating all by herself. Well, it was more like walking on the double gliders, but she did actually glide every once in a while. And she was actually going quite fast. Most importantly, she had a great time… at times she just could not stop laughing, this was mostly after falling though…
It’s a shame that it’s over, but it sure was great while it lasted!
So, yeah, obviously, if Tobias wants to skate, Lorelei wants to skate too! She has the baby skates with double gliders. It is basically walking on the ice with funky shoes on that make it extra slippery. Kind of cruel if you describe it like that :-).
Anyway, the three of us went to the ice yesterday to go skating. I put Tobias’ skates on first and off he went. I went with Lorelei holding on tight. Of course we went very slow and I was probably telling her the same things I have been telling Tobias when he was learning: Glide, one foot, other foot, calm, glide etc… So, after a while Tobias skates up to us to see Lorelei skate. He skates up next to her and goes: “Very good Lorelei, keep going, glide, other foot, calm… Good girl!”. Sooo cute! He is such a good big brother (most of the time :-)).
Lorelei said she enjoyed skating, but after about twenty minutes or so she said she was too cold. Good thing Lisa came by to pick her up. Tobias and I kept on going for a while, but before Lorelei left, I was able to get this shot of the two of them!
Lorelei is a genuine girly-girl, that is in the sense that she loves her dolls! She’s got a lot of doll stuff and plays with it pretty much every day. They are her babies… They laugh, they cry, they sleep, they go poo… everything :-). Anyway, all that stuff accumulates in a corner of our house in a big basket. Of course, sometimes the stuff is all over our house and the basket is empty. And when the basket is empty you can sit in it. And when you sit in it you can cuddle with your dolls. And when you cuddle with your dolls and call out: “Papa, look at me!” Papa will get his camera and take a picture. And when Papa takes a picture that is so unbelievably cute he puts it on your blog….
Well, that’s what happened :-).
Last week on Wednesday Tobias had a friend over and usually when that happens Lorelei kind of follows them around the house. Sometimes she interferes with their play or acts annoying, but sometimes it is just like: Tobias plays in his room, I play in my room. So, when Tobias and his friend were upstairs I assumed that Lorelei went after them to play in her room. I was downstairs, but at some point went to check on them. Well, no Lorelei in her room… So, I went to look for her and had a hard time finding her, even though she was not hiding… not purposely anyway.
This picture was taken in our room… what do you see?
Well, Lorelei, obviously, but what else? She is sitting there behind our drawn curtains with a book in her lap. That black thing is Jip and she is reading to him. That’s how I found her and she was actually reading (that is: turning the pages and kind of telling the story :-)).
That gave me a good laugh!
