I know it’s been a long time since my last post. I apologize. We’re here, we’re doing well – here’s a recap!
The kids are LOVING their classes. Noomi thinks everyday should be dance class. She asks almost everyday if she is going to dance class she loves it that much. Her teacher, a college aged young lady named Miss Olivia has the most patience I’ve ever seen as week after week she plays Mr. Sandman and tries to teach 30 or so 3 year olds 4 dance moves (involving – touching ones toes, putting their hands together and placing them to the side of their face, etc). It must be a skill. This past Monday the kids received their costumes for their recital and oh my goodness, Noomi wants to live in it. Right now it’s living in my closet.
Ajax has taken one belt test and is now a yellow-stripe (just above a white belt). He attends class two days a week and really enjoys it, though he won’t readily admit that. When you ask him if he likes class he says, eh I guess. If you ask him, do you want to keep going to karate class, he’ll say – I guess, if you want me to. When you ask him if he wants to stop and do something else, say baseball, he says – nah, I want to be a black belt. One of the questions for his belt test was – where does Taekwondo come from? Ajax – Indiana? Well he eventually memorized the answer and got it right for his test.
This past weekend we headed to Brooklyn to help out on the farm for a bit. The kids had fun and worked hard. The weather was lovely hanging in the 50s and today we’re under a winter storm watch and schools have already closed tomorrow. After dinner the kid went out with Dave to shovel the driveway and Noomi commented, quite proudly that these were her most best boots for going outside. It was pretty cute.
