The first weekend of dry weather Cole and I took the Christmas lights down and decided this year to make a tool to help with this. Oh sure, it took longer for us to build the tool than actually take the lights down but we sure had a good time. And next year should be even quicker.
Yum, Cookie Tooth
Jo is baking more and more these days and my pants are
tighter and must be shrinking. Coincidence?
I think not.
This day while she was eating bites of cookie dough because
she just couldn't wait for the cookies to bake, her loose tooth fell out. Teach
her to steal the dough before it's baked!
Fly Away
The family joined me for a paper airplane competition at my
work. I was asked to be a judge so I
decided a judging hat was in order.
Oma, however, thinks I do these things to embarrass her.
Cole's plane almost got the longest flight and Jo's cotton
ball drop almost won for hitting the target. But "almost" didn't win any
prizes.
SICK!Oh, the flu hit our household and Oma and I think we might be on barrowed time as we have both avoided this so far. But not the poor kids.
Cole missed a Friday of school and was down for the count
until the medicine kicked in and then he made himself some zipper bag ice-cream
and followed by another nap.
Jo on the other hand got it much worse and went down for many days.
Window seat for Xena
I decided to build a prototype window perch for Xena.
We all like it well enough and so does Xena, so the next
step will be to make it out of wood and have a nice looking cat tree inside the
windowsill.
Jo's Art
Jo is taking her first drawing class and really enjoying
herself, it's very low key and there are not many kids. We bought her a new drawing book with a
couple new pencils, erasers with a zipper case to carry it in.
She is also learning how to put her art up for critique at
the end of each class which, I know from personal experience, is quite hard the
first few times. Jo has gotten nothing
but positive feedback from her teacher and other students like it should be for
all the kids.
Gift Cash!
My dremel is like an extension of myself. I use it for everything like for cutting
holes in walls, cutting screws shorter, sanding rough edges on items to sanding
a mouth guard for a custom fit. You
name it...I can dremel it. Well my old
dremel died and that means, TOOL SHOPPING!
So with last years Birthday money added to this year Christmas money I
upgraded!
Xena and Doug are still loving each other!
School Concert
The kids had eight weeks of music at school and this musical
gift came to an end at school with an evening concert.
Cole played the keyboard and also the xylophone.
Jo played the maraca. I asked Jo why she chose that instrument when there were so many other choices. She stated "All the other kids like playing the xylophone and I really like the sound the maraca makes so that's what I chose." I sure love that she likes to do her own thing. You can say Jo shakes to the beat of her own maraca!
Basketball
Cole didn't want to play basketball this year so he is taking a break...no, wait. One of Cole's coaches from last season called and asked him to play keeping the same group of boys as last year. So if Coach asks you to play ball...you play ball.
