Winter activities

Austin is done with his basketball practice now.  He did a good job listening to his coach and learning triple threat position.   He now dribbles with one hand most of the time now.  He would run laps around the outside of the gym track.  The coach would work on listening skills by they were not able to start until the start of the whistle.  Coach would say go but they weren't supposed to go until the whistle.   At his last basketball he got a trophy and got pizza afterwards.

Sydney and I were not able to go to the last basketball practice because Sydney had a school friend's birthday party.  Sydney was so excited.  Sydney doesn't get invited to as many parties as Austin and that makes her sad.  She finally got to go to one.  She had a great time!

Sydney continues to do her gymnastics.  She loves it.  She can now do a backwards somersault.  She is also can do a handstand next to the wall with the teacher holding her.  She flips over on bar too!

Austin, Sydney and Kaitlyn have been taking swim class together.  They are in level 2.  They all do a great job.  It's fun going because we can talk with our friends while there.  We are going to change to different night since we have more Cavs games to attend at the end of the season.

We took the kids to a Monster's game.  Austin loves it!  He enjoys watching the puck and loves it when they score.  Sydney enjoys going for the snacks.  Austin likes to wear his Monster's shirt he got from the airshow last year too to the game.

Both kids can spell their last names and they can spell each other's name.  They also can spell cat.  They both like to spell "at" words like cat, bat, mat.  Austin knows how to spell zoo.  Austin can read words me, we, my and are.  We are working with Austin and sight words.  I made a matching game with words on them.  We also have sight word Zinga.

Austin and Sydney love art projects.  They had a large box and they decorated it and made it into a car garage.  They have a lot of matchbox cars and they put them all in there.  They also love to use tape.  They put tape all over the box.  They like to tape pictures to the walls too.  I don't mind much in the downstairs play room but don't like it as much in the main level of our house.

They also enjoy playing school together in the basement room.  They like to play by themselves there.  They will do that for 30 minutes at a time.  They have notebooks and will take attendance.  They do a good job taking turns being the teacher and kid.  The one time they played I was the kid.  Austin was the teacher. Sydney was the mommy.  She dropped me off at school and picked me up.

Also I finally took them to go get their hiking sticks.  In the fall, we walked 8 metroparks together.  I had the forms completed but had not dropped them off.  I took the kids to go pick up the sticks.  They were excited.  They can't wait to walk the trails again next year.