Olympics

John and I love the Olympics. We don't follow any sports or team. We don't have time and are honestly not interested. We don't follow any of the Olympic sports outside of the Olympics either. However, every 2 years we lift the sports ban and watch as much Olympic television as we can. I just love the Olympics.

Most evenings when I am home from work, we have been going downstairs to watch the recorded Olympics. William has enjoyed pieces of the snowboarding and ski jump competitions. Amelia has been the best fan thus far, she's watched and enjoyed everything. William watches for a few minutes and then wanders off to build Legos within earshot. If something exciting happens, he will pop his head up and see what is going on. However, out of everything, Amelia and Gemma loved the ice skating. I was getting ready to fast forward through the skating*, when Amelia hopped up from the couch and began her own performance. It was gorgeous. She was so inspired by the jumps, leaps and twirls. She loved the dresses and the music. Before the segment was over, she was begging for ice skating lessons.

Just after these pictures were taken, Gemma hopped up and joined Amelia briefly in dancing.


* this is going to sound terrible, but ice skating is SO LONG. I enjoy it in very short doses. I'm a much bigger fan of the luge, skeleton, ski jumping, etc that is done and over in about a minute. I'm fine watching 1-2 ice skating routines and then fast forwarding through the rest.