Thanks for the suggestions!

I have managed to find an age appropriate gymnastics movie to show the kids. I'm hoping it gets here this week! The kids actually got to try out the bar this past week in class & that was something to see. They both even going to the point where both their hands & feet were on the bar & they turned over it.

I forgot to take my camera for that, so these other pictures will just have to do. They are from last Sunday when we went to church.









I hope everyone is doing well!

Catherine

This will have to do for now...

We're getting ready to head to Gymnastics now, so thought I would post a few pictures before I head out. Sorry a couple of pictures are a bit dark, not sure what is going on with my camera...


Here are both kids giving the Vault a try. Ian is getting really good at hitting the blue box to bounce on to the mat well. Leah is still working on it a bit.



Here is Leah getting up after trying a sommersault on the foam incline.


Here is Ian giving his sommersault a try.

The teacher is helping them learn how to hop on one foot through the rings.


Here's Ian after going across the beam.

They are learning how to do several different things and seem to be having fun with it. After each thing they are learning to put their feet together and their arms up. It was the first thing the teacher taught them to do. Now, I just need someone to remind me of a couple of gymnastics movies I can show the kids so they can have some idea of what they are doing. They haven't shown anything on our TV channels relating to gymnastics and I kind of wanted them to see what gymnasts do. I should be able to get it from Netflix or the library, I'm just drawing a blank.

Someone e-mail me with some ideas!

Ian's Pre K Graduation

This past Friday Ian graduated Pre K. Yup, this means he'll be starting Kindergarten in the fall.

They worked really hard getting ready for the graduation by practicing songs:




Ian sang loud enough for everyone to hear & he knew MOST of his hand motions!




Each child in the class received a special award based on their talents. One got most creative, one got best manners, etc. What did Ian receive? Most Energetic Boy. Yup. That's Ian!




He got hot after the ceremony, so took off his cap right away, but was so proud of himself to have graduated. We were very proud of him, too. He learned so much and is starting to read some words now.


A picture with his teacher, Miss Simone, that Leah had to get in on too. She came to drop Ian off every morning to class, so probably felt like she was a part of the whole thing, too.


After the ceremony we let Ian pick where we would go to lunch, so we of course went to McDonalds. For dessert we surprised him with a stop to our local ice cream shop for a treat. The Italian Ice Cream they serve is delicious & Ian got one they shape into a snowman while Leah got the mouse. All in all a very enjoyable day!

Let's Go See DORA!!!

So the kids were all excited last week to go see Dora the Explorer that they had visiting one of our other nearby bases.  Turns out that Dora wasn't able to make it but instead they had Dora's cousin "Nora" and Barney there.  Leah was afraid of Barney & Nora, so 

Here's a picture of Ian shaking her hand:

Ian also was chosen to pick the winner of the $25 gift card giveaway (no, I didn't win).  The kids had fun doing crafts, running in a blow up maze castle thing they had there, bouncing in the bouncy house, and they each got some goodies out of the Pinata they had there.  All in all both kids slept REALLY well that night! :)

Here's a shot of them coloring & Leah is wearing her princess crown that was one of the other crafts.  

A Quick Trip to Idar Oberstein

Hope everyone is doing well & those of you who are Mothers had a Happy Mother's Day!!

The kids & I had Flat Stanley visit us a couple of weeks ago, so we took a little trip to Idar Oberstein to get a couple of Pictures over there.  

Here's one of the kids in front of the Church in the Rock with Stanley:

The kids also wanted to take a few minutes to play on the equipment along the main street there:

They ran around the fountain a couple of times, and then sat and posed for a quick picture:

Finally the view from the top of the town taken from the overlook by the Church:

It's a nice little picturesque German town.  It turned out we got lucky and had a very nice Spring day to go visit over there. 

Let's see if I get another post done today.  I feel like I took some pictures somewhere else, but I have to find them...

Say Monkey!

I think Marc has shared enough matching Christmas PJ pictures with everyone to know that I do like to put the kids in matching pj's from time to time.  Well, I saw these monkey pj's & knew that I had to get both the girl & boy ones for the kids to wear this summer.  They think it's kind of fun, so I guess Marc & I can use these pictures against them when they get older. :)

Enjoy! 

Catherine

The Puppet Show...

Who knew that a cheesey little German Puppet show could make the kids stay quiet for 15 minutes?!?  They were extremely excited to go & the show was in English.  Ian kept looking back & pointing to things so I semi-staged this pic so the flash could go off.  He was very happy, Leah wasn't moving she was happy & mesmerized by this show.  

Yes, unmoving, quite kids!!

A very happy Ian...

After the show they had a Fairy Tale Village where the kids could do some crafts & Leah mad the bracelet she is wearing in the following picture & the kids jumped in the bouncy house.  They also had fruit out that made a nice afternoon snack.

Leah chose the banana.

Ian chose the apple.

Hope things are going well with all of you!

Catherine