Adam Sandler in the Making

In addition to mastering the finer skills of hockey on the ice, the boys have started working on it from the field. We got them a little hockey set for their birthdays and broke it out for the first time this morning. James was content to be goalie while Jonathan beat the heck out of the ball trying to get it into the net.

The boys have been in skating lessons for nearly eight months now and recently moved from "Hockey Tots" to a big-boy hockey class. Aside from the realization we need to start investing in real hockey gear (cha-ching), the transition has been a smooth one.

Both boys enjoy hockey and provide us with endless laughs and material to haunt them with later. James, for example, is a talker and loves to chit-chat with his pretty skating instructors during his turn in class. This has changed quite a bit however, since the big-boy class is coached by a real manly hockey player. We've never seen him so quiet.  Jonathan, on the other hand, is all business and is very fast and seems at-ease on the ice, turning, skating backwards and crashing into walls (all on purpose). He isn't afraid to mix it up on the ice, which has Dan believing he's got a little Happy Gilmore in him - enthusiastic and clumsy at the same time.

"Is that goal regulation or what?!"