Future Bribing Material

Love how the two little people can entertain each other and keep busy. Makes for sane parents and happy kids. Usually they're going on camps, adventures, playing "Starwars" and super-heroes. But this shows, shall we say, a slightly sweeter side to their shenanigans.

Belt Test

The family got all geared up for Yohan's first Taekwondo belt test. Our budding champ did awesome with the warm-up routine, his "Basic Form Number One A, Sir" move and his first official board breaking. He had to write down one bad habit he'd like to break on the board and say it to the audience before he broke it. His parents had to veer him away from his first choice of bad habits ("digging my nose") to something more ...ahem... acceptable to the audience. So we went with "whining". And what a diference breaking that board has made in our home. Not/ :)

Goliath

Yo: Is Goliath in heaven?
Parents (unsure of appropriate response): what do you think?
Yo: He's just dead in Israel.

The Ballerina

Malaika was sure she wanted to join ballet classes. Once a week, she gets to pack her pink ballet leotard and pink ballet slippers in her pink bag and head to a nearby "dance academy" :) Unfortunately, we've had to stay put in the waiting room watching through tinted glass as she twirls and whirls. So, no good pics of her in action, and the video has quite a bit of reflection from the glass.

  

Valentine's!

Pre-schoolers make "Valentime's" day super fun. Celebrations started with a Sunday pancake breakfast and crafts at their school church service. Malaika also got to join big bro on stage for some singing during service - for her first time, she did awesome...no signs of stage fright at all.

We spent some time making and signing Valentine cards for their classmates at school and both kids has small class parties with candy, cookies, red fruit and what not.

On V-day we had some friends over for a playdate and the kids got to make their own heart-shaped pizzas, drink strawberry milk and eat heart-shaped cookies.

This little light of mine

Last Sunday the church where the kids go to pre-school had a pancake breakfast as well as a special service where the kids got to sign. They both did great. This was Mika's first public performance, and she had absolutely no stage fright - just marched right up to the stage and took the front row spot.

 

Punishment

Not sure where these up-and-coming parents get their disciplinary ideas from. Certainly not from their loving and gracious parents.