I'm not sure what Jonah expected after describing the hotel as a building with lots of bedrooms for everyone in the family (aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.), but he loved it. (It helped that the hotel was yellow.) He loved exploring the game room, lounge, pool, ice skating rink, tower, etc. until he owned the place and would show us how to get around.
Jonah's first ice skating attempt went about as can be expected. Holding onto a chair, with Mommy holding both him and the chair to keep both from flying, he made it a couple steps before telling me he was all done. We had a lot of fun riding the chair around the ice, and he eventually gave ice skating another try, holding both my and PopPop's hands, while proudly shouting "I'm doing it!" to his adoring spectator (Grandmama) as if he had mastered the sport.
Elliott wasn't a big fan of the pool, but wasn't quite as fussy as I had feared. (He has been screaming at bath time for a while now, to the point where we didn't take a bath for a couple weeks!) As long as he could hold his new Minions ball (from Aunt Pamela) he was content - though not exactly happy about the whole thing. Jonah, on the other hand, bravely swam with a noodle "all by himself" with such surety he would be across the pool on his own before I noticed! Good thing there were two of us to chase the two boys, and Aunt Pamela and Uncle Ryan for back up!
