Mandy Irwin: these small moments: First Hockey Game

What an early morning! Today was our first hockey game for the boys. Of course it was at a rink an hour away at 10am! Could be worse. Some of our games are at 9am which means out of the house by 7:30 which means up at 6ish..... Sounds like a lazy weekend morning to me ;)

The boys did not pull out a win but sere super cute to watch. The funniest is the fact that they have never practiced face-offs or game play at any of the practices so for the most part they were not knowing where to go. I was yelling at Hudson from the stands at one point, "Go Hudson! Skate hard buddy!". He stopped dead in his tracks and yelled back "What did you say mom?" I guess that means this new hockey mom is going to have to zip her lips.....who said my boys never listened to me though? Sure proved me wrong ;)

Another time, after Hudson finally figured out where to stand for face-offs, the play was still going and he skated over to the bench to ask "Where do I go now?" He thought he was supposed to be standing somewhere rather than chasing the puck.

Graidan, on the oterh hand, was not feeling very well and in hind sight I likely should have forced him to stay off the ice. He had a lot of trouble standing up today and basically skated around with one hand on his stick the whole time....not in a big hurry at all!

Pre-game cheering on by the coaches and parents in the dressing room as the boys line up to hit the ice

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Hudson (#22) takes his first face-off. After the game when we were back at home he told me "That game kinda stressed me out. I never knew where to go. But later, I figured out where the face-offs circle was so that was good." Haha. Sure enough, the little bum went skating hard to take the face-offs after that revelation!

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