Thursday, September 24, 2015

Soccer Kids


Lev is having fun in a soccer class with 9 of his classmates.

All grown up

Boy in the Bubble


We had a nice day at the preschool Fall picnic.  It was a very hot day and the kids loved the entertainment which was a bubble guy.

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Soccer


The kids' after school activities are in full swing.  Zoe is just doing (a lot of) gymnastics at the moment.  Lilia is playing soccer which she loves, and taking ballet and gymnastics classes.  Here she is in her first soccer game of the season.  She's on an all girls team with many of her best friends/classmates so that helps make it lots of fun.  Lev is taking soccer and swimming and gymnastics.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Ballet


Here are some pictures of Lilia in her first ballet class of the year which she is taking with two of her good friends from preschool.

All spiffy for the new year


Shana Tova to all!

Rock climbing


Lilia had a lot fun fun recently at a friends' rock climbing birthday party.  At first she was afraid to climb high but once she got started she climbed to the top and was very proud of herself.

Floor routine



Here is Zoe's floor routine from her 1st gymnastics meet.  I felt horrible that her scrunchy fell out during the backward roll!  I will definitely be looping the scrunchy a few more times for the next meet as she actually received a .1 deduction for this (which wasn't a big deal as she was completely oblivious to the scoring).

1st meet


Zoe LOVED the experience of her first gymnastics meet and can't wait for the next one.

Gel!

Apple Farm


We had a nice day at an apple farm followed by dinner on the beach with some friends.  Lev particularly enjoyed feeding apples to the cows.  He wore his t-shirt from Slide Ranch, which is another farm that we've visited.  One of the employees at the apple farm asked him "Have you been to Slide Ranch, isn't it beautiful?" to which he replied "Yes but it's not called Slide Ranch it's actually called Sea Ranch."  Funny, he had no idea he was wearing a Slide Ranch shirt and does not remember our trip there but he does remember our trip to Sea Ranch last Spring.

Beach and Burmese


We had a nice afternoon visiting the beach, eating at our favorite Burmese restaurant, and following it up with ice cream.

Practice meet


Zoe enjoyed the practice meet at her own gym.

Gymnastics party


Zoe has become friendly with some of her gymnastics teammates.  Here she is at a party that one of the parents hosted before the start of the meet season.

Lilia's big day


Lilia and I visited Build a Bear on her birthday.  It was our first time there and we had a lot of fun.

Back to preschool


Lev's year in the Elan class is off to a great start.  He has one of our favorite teachers (each of the girls had her at this age and she sometimes babysits for us).  He is the youngest in his class this year (whereas last year he was one of the oldest) and he seems to enjoy playing with the older boys.

Then and now


The bottom picture was taken 2.5 years ago.

Monkey bar boy

Lilia is 6!