Skating

It takes me fifteen minutes to get them all laced into their skates. I always help Bentley first because he likes to spend the most time on the ice. 

Viva spends a good deal of her ice time collecting ice shavings to form ice balls. I ask her not to do it because I'm afraid someone might skate over her fingers while she's collecting the shavings. If there aren't a lot of other skaters, I let her do it.

Bentley likes to see how fast he can skate around the rink. Jake sometimes joins him. On this particular afternoon the boys talked the skating rink attendant into timing them. Two young men (adults) were at the rink that day practicing their hockey skills and they noticed the boys were playing some type of game, so they asked the rink attendant what Bentley and Jake were doing and how fast Bentley and Jake's times were. Then they timed themselves. Bentley didn't notice that they were playing his game--which was just as well because they were much faster than he was.