Seth's 1st Day on Skis

Yesterday we were crazy Colorado parents and decided to spend a day taking Seth skiing! We'd bought some little strap on skis from a family on Craigslist and pulled him around the living room and the front yard snow a couple of times but we decided to see how he'd like skiing on a real hill. We took it slow, gave him a good morning nap and all of that, so we didn't get up to the ski hill until 11:00am. This is a tale of our fun adventures! He did SO much better than I thought he would. I wasn't sure he'd be able to keep his skis together at all but that turned out to be pretty natural for him. At first we'd hold him under the arms and he'd sort of put all of his weight on us as we went down. But then I tried skiing backwards in front of him and he got the hang of holding his own weight up. The funny thing was that he always wanted to try to walk with them so you'll see in the video how he slides one foot in front of the other as we go down the hill. The biggest bummer is that the guy manning the rope tow decided that Seth needed to have metal edges on his skis (instead of the hard plastic ones we were using). I've never heard of this rule and was pretty disgusted by it-- it meant that we had to spend the rest of the time walking up and down the hill instead of taking the free tow rope. Good grief. BUT, we made the best of it and really had a great time. It was so fun to watch him giggle and get excited. The sunglasses turned out to be great ski goggles in the snow, and his skis worked great. In case you wanted to know our inspiration for taking a toddler on skis... You'll see my cousins in the video too. They had their daughter Claire on skis before her first birthday! We did some skiing with them and some on our own. We were exhausted and my arms are pretty sore today but had so much fun with this first attempt!