Ice Skating

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We met up with three other families at the Seattle Center ice rink for an outing. Neither Audrey or Charlotte have ever been. Charlotte considered it for about five seconds before deciding not to try. "I might fall down!" Audrey was game, though, especially with the walker-type devices they have for little kids.

I skated with Audrey for a while, mostly trying to convince her to avoid swimming upstream in the crowd. Then Carol took over and I got to shoot some video. Audrey skated for nearly an hour.

We went across the way to the Center House food court for lunch, where we happened upon a huge holiday model train layout and the entrance of a youth pipe and drum band. After that we visited the Children's Museum downstairs where the girls had a blast for another couple of hours.

Oh, by the way, yesterday was Charlotte's first day leaving the house in underwear. She managed to tell Carol two of the four times that she had to go before doing so. Carol had come prepared with three changes of pants. Charlotte has been getting close to being toilet trained. Carol had a goal of getting there during my Christmas break (by New Years), but Charlotte had some kind of intestinal bug for more than a week that presented a setback. Now we're back on track. We're looking forward to celebrating our last diaper fairly soon.