We absolutely love our membership at the YMCA. So many fun opportunities for Ben to try new sports and activities. This month, we started up with "Intro to Martial Arts", which my mom takes him to on Wednesday afternoons. It's a fun way for him to get some energy out and play games like "Samurai, Samurai, Ninja" (a take on Duck, Duck, Goose).
Here is a picture from his first class. It looks like it could easily be confused for a Cheer-Leading practice.
Shauna and Brandon threw a "fancy" party for Alivia's first birthday. We had fun dressing up and visiting with some friends - some of whom I hadn't seen in years or since high school!
Me and Kim:
Kim, Shauna and Me
The birthday girl enjoying her cake!
Me and Greg - rare opportunity to be dressed up.
Party boys waiting to sing Happy Birthday (and sneaking frosting).
Ben loving his color baths.
Fun with emojis
Mira and Callie came over for a play date (Maylee was sick).
Ben came up to me one evening and told me he wanted to "be by himself with me". So we read books. With this particular book, Ben is able to read about 80% of it on his own!
Lisa's birthday was last weekend, and she has had several years of having extremely fun and unique parties! (Last year, for example, we were trapped in a room with a zombie).
This year, she and Evan rented out a roller-skating rink and we all had a BLAST! Since it was kid friendly, we decided this would be the perfect time for Ben to try skating for the first time!
It was 80's themed, so I tried to make my hair as big as possible...which was more challenging than I expected.
I brought a cake :)
The boys :)
Me and Benny.
Skating for the first time is HARD. This is how most of the night went:
And by the end, he only required one hand to hold and was doing a great job! He had the BEST time and told us afterwards that he felt so proud of himself. (I was so impressed that he never gave up, even if it was super hard).
Me, Lisa and Crystal
The cake lady at the bakery convinced me to get trick candles ;)
The party was from 8:30 - 10:30 pm, so Ben predictably crashed on the ride home.
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