Yading!

Julia discovered ice skating today: the world will never be the same. With Mama watching coverage of the Olympic figure skating, Julia starting doing pretty accurate mimicry of a skater's footwork: step-sliding each foot outward in turn while also advancing slowly across the room. She kept saying, "Yading!" but I only caught on after a minute or so. Perhaps to drive home the point, she also did "yins" that were really just her twirling in place for a few seconds - to the verge of tipping over in dizziness. In a hopeful development, she soon abandoned the in-place yading for yading sideways down the hall and back. She readily agreed with my assessment that she was now speed skating.