monday, brian called the assistant coach of the dartmouth women's hockey team so he and rory could go watch them practice. so that afternoon, they went over to the arena to watch and apparently the women LOVED rory. they kept waving at her and talked with her and even gave her a hockey puck. she was on could nine when i came home monday night and could chatter about nothing else. she's been trying to hit the hockey puck around the dining room with her liitle boston bruins souveniur hockey stick, it's a little tough but she does it.

we'll let her play hockey when she's older as long as she's not a goalie (too much equipment!). first we have to get her out on the ice in skates-maybe next year. brian took her out on mike and laurie's pond at some point this year-he was just holding her while he skated around and she did NOT like it at all.