Month: January 2016

For Christmas this year the grandparents gave gifts of classes for the kiddos.  Ajax signed up for tae kwon do classes and Noomi signed up for dance.

Ajax has attended three karate classes at Master Shinn’s in Okemos and loves it.  He’s in the Tiger Tots class and so far has been the tallest in his class, which he thinks is pretty cool since he’s one of the smaller kids in class.   He attends class two day a week, which seems a lot, but he’s starting to get pretty excited at the prospect of earning higher belts.  I’m not sure if that’s the right lingo or not, but he’s got his eyes set on the yellow belt.

Noomi has attended one dance class (Creative Movements)(ages 3-5) and she was beyond excited.  Excited doesn’t even capture it.   When I got home from work, Noomi was already in her ballet outfit spinning in the dining room.   As she’d been talking about dance class for month she was over the moon that she was really going.  On our drive there, however, she started to get nervous and said that maybe she would only watch the class.  When we got there she met several of her friends from school and all nervousness went out the window.  I watched her through the window (apparently we’re not allowed in) and she was the only little one break-dancing and spinning on the ground… thank you Mr. Ajax.

 

This New Years we spent the evening with friends in Williamston.  The kids had a blast playing, we ate a ton of unhealthy food, and everyone (except the baby) made it to midnight.

We played an exciting game of Settlers of Catan (one of Dave’s Xmas presents), which brought us up to midnight.

I cannot believe the kids made it up that late but they did and we all watched the ball drop.  We had sparkling cider and the kids had noise makers.  It was a good time all the way around!

Well our family had a wonderful holiday!

The kids and I volunteered at St. Vincent sorting gifts and afterwards I treated them to lunch out and then several hours of fun at Jumpin’ Jack (a large inflatable playground).

Dave was able to take several days off, so we had plenty of family time!  A large part of our family time was spent watching the original 3 Star Wars movies.  And then Dave treated Ajax to the new movie- The Force Awakens.  The kids are all about Star Wars these days.  Noomi has also been watching them with us and loved Darth Vader. She said his cap was so pretty.  And then in the middle of one of the movies when we were all snuggled on the couch she turned to me and said, mom, I like ponies. Do you like ponies?  (on another occasion she suddenly stated, oh I love sparkles, do you love sparkles?_ what a little girl).

Christmas Eve we hosted dinner out our house which was wonderful.  The kiddos enjoyed their holiday PJs and then slept in till almost 7:30 am.  Grandma Dara and Grandpa Rod stayed the night so everyone got to open presents in the morning.  After gifts we headed to my Grandpa Nader’s house and then to Theresa and Tim’s house for dinner.   It was a long day and everyone had a great time.

Oh, on a side note Noomi couldn’t quite pronounce Christmas, so she was saying Smis-Mis.  It was darn cute.