Three (not so) little kids and whatever words come to mind…
All three girls participated in RMU's local figure skating competition, Shamrock Skate. De skated Pre-Alpha, Ana skated Beta, and Jenya skated Delta. Plus Jenya and Ana's Little Blades team gave an exhibition. They all had a wonderful time.
Here are the videos:
LIttle Blades Exhibition
Ana's routine
De's routine
The girls have fun climbing the giant mountain of snow left over from all the plowing.
De decided she wanted to get a short cut — quite a different look for her but very cute.
There was a scheduled synchro competition this weekend, with all 3 RMU teams supposed to be competing. However, due to a slapstick-worthy series of miscommunications and changing decisions centered around the snowy weather, Jenya and Ana wound up being the only two girls on their team to actually show up.
However, they did get to skate on the practice ice all by themselves for quite a while, which they enjoyed — even De! Here's Jenya showing off her lovely spiral. And later on the girls on the older teams made quite a fuss over them, gave them pins and taught them cheers.
Went to Hershey, PA this weekend. Jenya and Ana's Little Blades Synchronized Skating team competed in the Reflections competition. They placed 3rd, and did a nice job especially considering that several new girls joined the team just a couple of weeks before the show.
The day before the competition we spent some time at Hershey's Chocolate World. Everyone had a great time. It's a nice small place, perfect for a couple of hours' entertainment. Plus lots of chocolate samples, can't beat that. The girls also liked the singing cows on the "how milk chocolate is made" tour (don't ask). All in all a very nice weekend.
Two feet of snow on the ground so far, and it's still coming. Lunn and the girls are working hard to dig out the driveway, although the roads still haven't been plowed.
The snow is so deep the girls can build tunnels under it, as well as sled on top of it.
De finished up her entire 2nd grade math book and has now started the 3rd grade math program. Very cool!
Jenya and her FLL team, Brick Busters, competed at the Western Pennsylvania First Lego League Robotics competition. It was the teams' first time participating, so they had made a fairly simple robot and went in not expecting to do very well.
To their surprise and satisfaction, their simple robot proved very effective, and they wound up placing 6th out of 72 competitors. Not bad at all! They all had a wonderful time, and I think it was an excellent learning experience as well.
In their new competition dresses…
