Catching Up: Christmas activities
Lily has been taking piano/music lessons from one of Jacob's violin student's mom. We trade lessons and it's worked out great for Jacob to teach the daughter in one room and Lily to have her lesson in another. Lily's been learning composers, rhythm, theory, fun songs and games. She loves it! She had her first recital right before Christmas. There were 4 or 5 other kids her age/level and they performed two songs in the recital. Lily did great and didn't have any stage fright. I was preparing myself for her to get nervous because I HATED recitals when I was taking piano lessons, but she was just excited and didn't act nervous at all!
The last storytime at the library before Christmas break. My kids love going to storytime every Monday morning! The teacher is so great to keep their attention and do really fun things.
Singing to elderly friends and family. We missed going singing last Christmas because Ava was just a month old and it was freezing cold. The kids had such a good time this Christmas! They know lots of the Christmas carols so they joined in singing. So precious!
Our kid's co-op Christmas party. We do a twice a month co-op with some other families at church. We do a different theme each time - not super structured because our kids are still young. Myra's mother-in-love came with salt dough ornaments and helped each child paint a couple ornaments each.
We also acted out the Christmas Story! We were missing some children because of other obligations, so some of the kids were shepherds and wise men. :)
There is this awesome trail of Christmas trees in a nearby city where you can walk through for free. All the trees are decorated with a different theme. We went one evening after Christmas and really enjoyed it. There were some really creative decorations!
Right by the trail of Christmas tree is an outdoor ice skating rink. The kids had never been skating before, but they wanted to try. Asher tried for about 2 minutes and then cried until we took his skates off and let him sit on the side and watch the others. I didn't skate, so I kept Asher and Ava on the side. Jacob, Lily and Levi had a blast! L&L pushed the green push thingys and they whizzed around the rink. There is a homeschool ice skating day each month at an indoor rink closer to where we live, so we are thinking of trying that since they had so much fun.
We had so much fun making memories over Christmas. I'm thankful for everyday I get to spend with my family.
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