Caleb's Christmas Show

This is how Caleb participated in his preschool Christmas show. If he makes the choice to ham it up and be the center of attention he doesn't mind at all. If it's a planned activity ...... he hates it :) He did start to warm up and participate towards the end. His teachers were funny when we came in and he refused to join the others. In class he's silly and really, really into the songs and actions so they thought he would be great for the show. This has happened a few times...... he refused to be in the costume parade too.
Jackson was the camera man. He loved it. He took some videos too. I will try t post one.

Parkour

We recently decided to let the kids try out some classes and Jackson chose Parkour (also called free running). I call it unstructured gymnastics for boys - there is lots of running, jumping, flipping and doing tricks off of things in your environment (like walls). He loves it.
He takes the class at a gymnastics center (Caleb also has preschool there but it's not gymnastics based). They put on a holiday show that Jackson was really excited to participate in eventhough he had only had three classes. The parkour boys were dressed as "lumps of coal" and they did a little obstacle course to show off their tricks. After watching all the perfomance, Hailey wants to do cheerleading and Maggie wants to do gymnastics :)

This is only picture we have of the kids with Santa this year. Hailey was kind of mad that she didn't get to sit on his lap and tell him what she wanted :)

2013 Christmas card

Here is our Christmas card from this last year. I love that the kids are all still so cooperative in the photo studio. We have to enjoy that as it lasts :) It's been a busy year. If I didn't send you a card let me know and I will add you to the list.