Week 50

Both kiddos had super great weeks!

Punky passed Level 2 Ice Skating.  She's getting pretty good.  She can skate forwards, backwards, stop and glide on one leg.  She's come a long way from her first lesson where she basically skate-walked or fell.  We are super proud of her hard work!

Buddy earned his yellow belt in Taekwondo.  He and Derek had been working hard for the last few weeks and were practicing his form for 5 minutes nearly every day.  The form "Chun Ji" was 19 moves.  He not only had to know which way to face but also which way to turn.  It was a lot for a 5 year old!  And he did it!  He came a long way from one of his first lessons when the instructor asked the class what the name of the form was and Buddy answered "uniform" instead of "Chun Ji".  

 In addition to the form, he also had to know the meaning of respect, the three areas of concentration and a self defense move.  At the end of the exam, Buddy was so excited to get to break a board!  

We also got to visit both kids at school this week.  Buddy's preschool sang songs and had snacks on Thursday.  Buddy is one of the tallest and oldest in his class.  He looked giant standing next to the littlest girl in the class!  

Sometimes when the kids aren't too excited to take a photo for me, I agree to let them do one silly photo after I get a good shot of them smiling.  This is what Buddy did for his silly photo.  Boys!

On Friday, Punky's class performed a play for the parents.  The play was "The Gingerbread Girl" and wouldn't you know our little girl was the gingerbread girl!  (The class did another play about a month ago "The Three Little Pigs" and Punky was the Big Bad Wolf.  She told me, "every play we do, I get eaten!"  Hahaha). She did a great job in the play and has such good expression in her voice- I am so proud of her!

On Saturday we headed to Grandma and Grandpa's for our first Christmas celebration.  

We spent the rest of the weekend baking Christmas cookies with Grandma Trudi and Great Aunt Traci.  Punky was a big helper while Buddy floated in and out.