Art Project Time

Today we had a little art project time. We were making special projects for Daddy (sh! don't tell). Alia enjoyed using our new little roller tool. Max did his first ever finger painting. I think he enjoyed it, but I had to cut it short when he tried to taste test the paint.

Hugs & Love

Hair Cuts

We took the kids in to get hair cuts today. It was Max's first haircut and Alia's third. Alia did a great job! She hopped right up in the chair and watched Toy Story while getting her hair cut. She did such a good job that the lady gave her a princess braid and a sucker ... big excitement! Max did a great job too. He was very interested in everything going on in there. He liked watching Toy Story and driving his little taxi cab. He was absolutely fine until the razor thing came out and then he was just annoyed! Both kids are looking pretty sharp and ready for their big trip back to Indiana in a couple of weeks.

Swim Class

Here are a few short clips from the kids last swim class last weekend. As you can see, Max LOVES swimming! Alia likes swim class, but mostly likes walking around in the shallow end. There was no talking her into going down the big purple slide this time.

Playing Babies

Yesterday Alia and Max had a great time playing with her baby doll and its accessories together. It was adorable. Alia would feed her baby doll and then use the pretend food and bottle to feed Max and he just played right along. It was one of the first times that they really played "together" and happily. I got to sit back and watch and RELAX :-)

Group Fitness

Ok, so I don't usually do posts about me, but there is some exciting news in my world. A couple of weekends ago, I attended an initial training to be an instructor for BodyPump which is a weightlifting group fitness class by Les Mills. It was three days long and about 8-9 hours each day. It was brutal and tons of fun all at the same time. I passed that portion of the training and then had to team teach 4 classes and then submit a video of me teaching an entire class. That video is off to the Less Mills office to be evaluated, but in the meantime I am able to teach as I await my official certification. I managed to accomplish all of that in less than 2 weeks because the teacher that was working with me at the gym is going out of town next week and wanted me to sub for her. SO, I'll be subbing for my first two classes next week. It all happened so fast, but it is a ton of fun and I am loving it. I'm hoping to do some subbing throughout the summer as people go on vacation and then maybe even squeeze my way into having my own class eventually :-) Here are few pictures from my training class a few weekends ago.

Sunday Dinner

One of our little routines around here is that Jason makes Sunday dinner. He loves to cook and he loves to do long involved recipes. He doesn't have time during the week so on Sunday he goes all out. Last weekend, he had a special helper in the kitchen. Alia helped brush the red pepper with olive oil and salt and pepper them ... needless to say the red pepper sauce ended up being a hair too salty, but a certain little two year old had tons of fun helping!