Delaney's first lesson!

Getting in on Delaney’s first piano lesson. Her teacher is part of the teaching staff at Charis, where Brienzi, Adian, and Delaney go to school. We’re very thankful to have Sharon here in town and working with our kids.

Marble Coaster

Like almost every boy, Aidan is enthralled with building. He could build something out of crumbs if he had nothing else. So for Christmas, we got him the gigantic Ultimate Building Book (I think it took a tanker to get it over to Indo, it’s so big) along with a tool box of toothpicks, popsicle sticks, glue sticks, paper clips, straws, Q-tips, and a bunch of other things you can build with. We then set out to build Aidan’s Marble Coaster:

 Straws used for tressels and paper towel centers cut in half for tracks.

S - U - M - O

The other day at the table, we started talking about what the word Sumo means. Well, that got us on one of our favorite pastimes . . . acrostics:

Super Unusually Miniscule Outfits

Swollen Undeterred Men Oscillating

Some Unclothed Massive Ones

Sweaty Underdressed Marshmallow Olympians

Somewhat Unmotivated Man Ogres

Seriously Uninhibited Mushy Orbs

Well, you get the idea. Once you get on a role, you can lose sleep trying to think up new ones. Give it a try! And while you’re at it, here are a few pictures to get you motivated.

 We were introduced to an awesome playground that included the chance to find out what Sumo wrestlers feel like. Brienzi and Preston T were eager to try it out.

Aidan and Joshua T. Aidan is definitely proving the S in Sumo stands for sweaty.

Ahem . . . would that be Kim and Patrick? I'll tell you this, once you go down, 

you can't get up unless they help you up!!

Tree Tops

At the end of last year, we traveled with a group of friends to do a ropes course. They had five levels of difficulty. All the kids did great, but Brienzi was impressive getting up to level three – VERY high up in the trees.

Laney getting started on the beginner course. She went up to the next level with dad, but that was all she wrote for this first grader.

Aidan was tearing up the course on the zip line, or also known as the flying fox on this side of the planet.

Brienzi and her friends getting started on their first trek around the forest tree tops.