Smell that?.....Smells Like Canada

The weekend was a lot of time spent indoors, like everyone else we had a lot of snow and nasty-cold winds. We did play in the backyard a little bit on Saturday. Played some field hockey on the tundra, no actual ice but the shoveled off grass works pretty well for boot hockey and tennis balls. There was enough snow to also break out the snow shoes for a romp around the back yard. Sophia's snow shoes fit her well and we found out that Sophia's snow shoes don't fit Merrick that well--however he was convinced that he was uber cool when he had them on--even if he didn't say as much. Sunday started off by feeding DVD's into the TV like Ritalin at an elementary school but then ended with some ice time for both kids. While it is Sophia's practice, Merrick too brings his stick and helmet, and loves to crash into the glass. This weekend was no different, although he seemed to get more compliments on his helmet this time than normal. Trucking two kids across a desolate parking lot to go to a Sunday night hockey practice did indeed seem very Canadian.
Sophia (orange #3) doesn't have an actual team but as the one picture shows apparently the yellow team used a textbook strategy of mini-mites--skate towards the net and then slide at the goalie (Sophia was the goal tender). They rotated her out of net and she is really skating well and even had a nice backhand goal. The day ended much as it had started with TV on, although the evening was permeated by the temperature induced requirement of the chicken noodle soup--with homemade noodles