Finn Gretzky

This is the newest post school and dinner activity for the boys.  It gets dark early right now, so we hook up the light from the hockey rink and the boys rollerblade on the driveway and play hockey.  It makes me dizzy just watching....

Finn trying on Aiden's hockey gear

Finn and his gear

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Finn loves hockey.  Actually, he is borderline obsessed with hockey.  Considering Finn spends so much of his time at the hockey rink watching his brothers or in the driveway playing street hockey with his brothers (see above picture), he is exposed to the sport of hockey a lot.  If you ask him how to sharpen skates, he will walk you through the process of sharpening from start to finish including the sound effects and where you need to go to sharpen skates (John has a sharpener in our basement).  For months, he has been talking about the ice rink that Daddy is going to build in the backyard and he even makes ice rinks from lego blocks and other miscellaneous items.  I have a feeling that he will be asking to go on the ice a lot this winter so he may learn to skate before his third birthday.

During one of our recent trips to the ice rink, Finn continually asked me to see the "coonie" (i.e. like raccoon without the ra)  He didn't ask once or twice, he literally repeated the words "coonie" over and over and over again until he was basically in tears asking for...the coonie.  I had no clue what he was talking about until the end of practice when the zamboni came out to clean the ice.  Yes...Zamboni=Coonie.  And believe me, we all know that now.