Kach This! Catching Up With the Kachmariks: Skiing!

February 3, 2013 – A day that Dan has looked forward to for over 4 years……

I am actually not exaggerating. I remember being pregnant with Connor and having discussions / debates on how old he or she would have to be when we finally introduced skiing. Dan thought sometime shortly after walking sounded about right. I remember saying that they had to be able to “run, fall, get up and not cry” before we would even think about it. Looking back now we both laugh at how much fun it is to anticipate something and how your ideas of parenting change over time. There have already been lots of things we’ve changed or done that we said “we’d never do”…. haha! I’m sure there will be lots more too!!

Connor’s introduction to skiing came on the perfect day. Super Bowl Sunday was a beautiful “blue-bird” ski day, with temps in the 20’s and a beautiful sun with bright blue skies. Perfect Montana skiing as I remember it. My parents took Drew for a little one-on-one time and we took Connor to the mountain for his special Mommy, Daddy & me day. After the chaos of getting all of his ski clothes on, only to have to decide he then needed to use the potty (oh – yeah – I think I can officially say we are POTTY TRAINED!), and then putting ski clothes all back on, we hit the mountain. Dan & I had all of our ski clothes, helmet, goggles, etc on just to provide an example, although my grand total on skis was skating over to the magic carpet and Dan put his on for a lovely ride up the magic carpet and 1/2 of a trip down the magic carpet run. Never have either of us been so happy to be at the mountain and not even get to ski!!! I would NEVER have guessed that of Extreme Dan!

Connor did absolutely wonderful and kept saying how much fun he had. His dad beamed from ear to ear as he was watching his future ski / snowboard / mountain buddy being formed. We tried to teach Connor pizza wedges, but he much preferred to put his hands on his knees and effectively tuck it to the bottom! The kid hasn’t learned how to stop yet --- but I guess that can be for a different day. Thumbs up!