Month: December 2015

After a week of not feeling well, Ajax was finally well enough to go to school on Friday.  He was quite happy about this as Friday was PJ day and spelling test day.  Ok, he wasn’t thrilled about the spelling test but he got 12/12 and was very proud.  Noomi seems to be a trooper and managed to avoid the nasty virus that ran through our home.

On Saturday we decided to take the kids to the East Lansing winter festival.  It went something like this –

Kids refusing to put on shoes or jackets meant we got a late start.  Because we got a late start we had to hunt college town side streets for parking and stood in the longest line ever to see Santa.  The line was so long it snaked its way through the Marriott lobby with dozens of screaming kids.  Dave was kind enough to stand in line and I took the kids to look around the rest of the festival.  Me: look kids a goat! how cool, wanna feed him?  Kids: nah.  Me: look kids hot coco, want some?  Kids: nah.  Me:  look kids a man carving a snowflake from a block of ice with a chainsaw!!  Kids: can we go back and wait in line with dad?

The only thing the kids seemed to take joy in were the hotel lobby escalator.  Up and down. Up and down.  We rode that thing for over a half hour.  Finally, it was time to see Santa and Mrs. Clause, the kids had been talking big for several minutes, this year Ajax promised to take a wonderful picture.  But when the elf came to escort them to the stage, both kids freaked out and I had to drag Noomi, finally gave up and held her in the picture.  And all of this with dozens of other parents watching.

After the picture fiasco, the kids were finally interested in the goats.  We tried to take a family photo on a sleigh made of ice… but well, the photo speaks for itself.

On Sunday, I took Noomi to a birthday party and Dave and Ajax did a bit of holiday shopping.  And then we all went to bed!

I’m having technical difficulties with the photos… here’s one –

 

 

A few weeks ago we headed up north to Mikado for a visit.  We headed up early on Friday and had a pretty easy drive up.  Theresa, Tim and baby Vivian were also up for the weekend.  With so many hands on deck Rod decided that we should take a giant 80 foot pine tree down.  While Rod knew what he was doing, the rest of us were pretty green.   With Dave on the tractor, Tim guiding the line and Rod working the chainsaw, we all watched from the safety of the house as the giant tree came crashing to the ground.

Ajax was a tremendous helper and a very hard worker.  He pulled branches, piled them up and hustled with the adults.  I was very proud.