Lately Carissa has been kind of fascinated by skating. I’m not sure, but I think it may be because she watches “Pingu,” a Swedish claymation TV show about penguins who do things like go skating. It’s a little ironic because we took her roller skating once and she was miserable (and a few hours later was throwing up because of the stomach flu–so it wasn’t her fault).

In any case, she’s into skating. She wanted to go skating in our kitchen on a couple of wooden building blocks, but I told her I thought that was a bad idea. But I remembered how in my old aerobics class sometimes we’d use paper plates like skates to work our inner thighs. And voila–Carissa’s skates are born.