Library, Sleeping Beauty and roller skating

I so appreciate public libraries.  It has been really fun to attend the library programs here in Charlottesville.  We are on our second round of weekly story times (they are registration required not drop ins) and are always looking for more fun programs.  Last Saturday we headed out to the Library in Crozet for their Mitten program.  We have done quite a few "the Mitten" activities at home and had a great time enjoying the ones the library put together.  Crozet is about 25 minutes away from "central" Charlottesville and a potential place for us to move as there are more affordable houses there.  Their library is really nice which helped me feel more open to moving there. (It just seems inconvenient to me, and gets us farther from DC which I really don't want to do) They had a really fun program with lots of stories and snow themed activities.  Jared and Lydia had a great time. 

 SNOW

 Jared is approximately 10 mittens tall. 

 Wax paper ice skating.  

This was super fun.  It was nice because all the parents got involved pulling their kids around so you really felt like you were at an ice skating rink. We got to some pretty decent speeds. It was Jared's favorite activity.

 Using magnets to get bells through the "Snow"

Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip:  This is the pinkest dress up outfit Lydia has so it is now the Princess Aurora dress.  A superman cape works nicely for Prince Phillip's cape. 

For last Friday's family movie night Lydia picked Sleeping Beauty.  Every day now she tells us she is Princess Aurora and then asks each of us who we are from the movie.  I always pick a fairy Mark is King Stefan (Aurora's dad after all) and Jared is King Hubert or Prince Phillip. I love watching Jared and Lydia play.  Dancing is currently one of their favorite activities. (seen above courtesy of Sleeping beauty)  They really are great friends right now which is so nice.  After their classes Sunday whoever I pick up first is always super excited to go pick up the other kid and give them a great big hug. I love that they are so excited to see and play with each other.  Whether it is Pirates, Fairies or Nerf guns they have a great time together.  Makes me so happy. 

Saturday night Mark and I went roller skating (also in Crozet so it has 2 things going for it).  I absolutely love roller skating!  Love it!  I used to sweep my parents drive way each day after school then put on my skates and skate around for as long as I could.  I still love it and was so excited to go.  Mark actually really does not like roller skating so it was very nice of him to go with me for our date night.  I think it has to do with how tall he is.  We went to a little community center and I had a blast.  I wish it was a bigger place but it was so great to go skate. We were just a little out of place.  It is on the far side of Crozet so it is definitely a "locals" hang out. Somewhere they all go each Saturday night.  It was no Cal-Skate but plenty fun. It only took me a few laps to remember how much I love it and to get my confidence back.  I can't wait to go again!

 He had taken his skates off to go get the camera for me. We asked one of the teenagers there to take our picture.  They were happy to oblige.