Another day at the pond

It was a nice warm day outside, so we couldn’t skate on the pond out of fear of completely ruining the surface.  Instead, we played a little boot hockey and let the kids slide around on the hills.

Thanks to Phil and his expertise, we were able to dig the hole and flood the rink fairly quickly.  Hopefully, we’ll have a beautiful smooth surface soon.

Lazy bones here was able to convince Daddy to tug him home instead of walking.

Here are Jack and Daddy playing with one of Jack’s Christmas gifts.  I suggested that my parents get him some imaginext stuff for a gift (it’s like the new little people for older kids.)  They ended up getting him this huge castle with smaller battering rams, catapults and a giant fire breathing dragon.  What we didn’t know when they bought it was that they all take batteries and are interconnected.  So, when you start to attack the castle with the dragon or battering ram the castle talks back (it’s super cute with thing like “man your battle stations” “dragon!” etc. etc.)  It was definitely a hit.