Classes, Roger's Birthday and Life Between Thanksgiving and Christmas

Cleo has continued her love of ballet.  Here she is waiting for her class at the Adamsville Recreation Center to start. Starting Jan. 10, we are trying out a different ballet class at the Southwest Arts Center where she took art and theater a few years ago. The end of season at the Adamsville Recreation Center show costs $300 and that's too steep. I am hoping the end of season performance at the SW Arts Center is more affordable. We are looking into Sidney taking a one on one musical instrument lesson. He says he's interested in learning to play the violin.  We shall see.

They will both continue to take swim lessons at 10am on Saturdays at the Adamsville Rec Cntr. We want them to be able to be strong swimmers. They don't have to stick with it as a sport once they learn.  Sidney has made great strides. Cleo just needs to be more confident. She actually did much better yesterday at her lesson. We were nicely surprised. They've been taking lessons for a little over a year.

We took the kids to Toys R Us to create gift registries for Christmas. While there, they got to meet Geoffrey the Giraffe.

Appreciating our decorated Christmas tree.

We celebrated Roger's birthday at the Hammock, a seafood restaurant in the Sandy Springs area of Atlanta.

Roger's college friend, Wendy, joined us. Cleo and Sidney are enjoying their s'mores dessert.

Sidney was selected as the International Baccalaureate ambassador for Caring for the month of December. Each teacher in each class selects a student who the teacher thinks embodies the principle being celebrated that month.

Here he is with his teacher, Ms. Edwards. She was also Cleo's kindergarten teacher. Sidney was so incredibly proud of himself. Ms. Edwards told us that when he returned to school after Thanksgiving, he told her that he was ready to be an IB ambassador. She had already selected him at that point.  Whenever anyone at the ceremony congratulated him, he was quick to point out that Cleo was IB ambassador for Openmindedness for November. He is the true embodiment of caring.  We are so proud of him.

After the ceremony, we went to Ms. Edwards' classroom. Sidney lovingly kissing Cleo on the cheek.

Sidney on a field trip having fun with his bestie Shane. Shane's mom sent me the photo.

Tendu and out.

Plie

Doing ballerina exercises.

Sidney with a karate pal waiting to perform for us.

Cleo and Sidney enjoying some coffee at Dunkin Donuts after a long day of running the streets doing Christmas errands. Just kidding. It's water.

Cleo and Sidney posing in front of the Annie poster when they saw Big Hero 6 with Roger.  We saw Annie in Jacksonville.  We went with Kaelin and Makayla, Roger's god-mother's granddaughter.

Posing next to Baymax, one of the characters in Big Hero 6.  The last day of school for the kids was Dec. 19, but we didn't head down to FL until Dec. 24. I had to work Dec. 22 and 23.  They spent Dec. 22 with Roger and went to Kids R Kids on Dec. 23.  Their school resumes on Jan. 6 so they will be going to Kids R Kids tomorrow. Quintin and Alexandria are making surprise guest appearances at Kids R Kids tomorrow so Cleo is ecstatic to see Alexandria.

More to come. I will update my blog with our Christmas adventures in Jacksonville.