December 07

December 07: Now we were decorating our pad for the holidays. Kade and Kai loved putting up our rescued fake tree (which I just can't bear to throw into some landfill, even though we are its second owners and has seen much better days)! It requires some attention to detail if one wishes to have it look semi like the real deal. The boys both donned on gloves and helped spread the branches and put them on in order. Decorating at our house is a hoot...because the kids do most of it. This means that our decorations a few years ago were all located about 2 feet of the floor. This year we managed to have things between 3 and 4 feet up (depending on who held the hammer!) and they were more spread out! The tree looked great once decorated. The walls looked great because there was nothing on them to interfere with the kids' creativity of design (and today we still don't have pictures up!!!) We also were blessed in having all our new friends over to help us bake cookies...and did we ever have fun! We even managed to make some raw gingerbread cookies (which although they didn't get crunchy were gone in short order with that luscious raw frosting dolloped on top).

Kade found Lynn Forbes Studio this month. If you follow the link and go to the side bar, click on 'Youth, Family, Homeschool' Kade is in the first picture there! At the time, we were checking out the karate studio across the way, and Kade walked into Lynn's space and made himself at home. He spent a total of 90 minutes working with clay and she was great enough to let us sign up for week/by/week lessons. This lasted for a while until Kade decided he missed family time on Saturdays. We really appreciate his priorities! Eventually he may decide to return to the clay work and I hope he does, because he was quite good.

We found a Karate Studio for Kai! Kade decided he wanted to try it out too, so we had 2 boys in for the first 3 months. Thankfully, our true lessons waited till the first of the year to begin.

Christmas came and found us the proud owners of a Wii. SO, we lost the boys for at least a month in between the cool gifts and the cool Wii.