Gage's first ski lesson!

Gage loved skiing right away!  Look how legit he looks in these pictures.  Like the real deal from the outset.  He's been asking about when he gets to go again, and it must be hard for him to understand that it will be many months from now when we can get back at it.

He took a half-day lesson and was definitely getting the basics by the end of his first day.

That's Gavin in the yellow coat, heading up the "magic carpet" on the beginners' hill.  On this particular day, this was the ONLY time he went up and down that hill with his ski class.  They spent a lot of other time playing in the snow and doing very little related to skiing, so my friend and I both expressed our concerns at the end of the lesson, and Eldora gave us a voucher to come back.  And you better believed that we did!

We've decided that Gage always looks like a different boy when his hair is flat.  Different and about three years older.  Spike it back up, Baby, you're already growing up way too fast!  Here he's eating his post-ski-lesson snack in his snow pants.