More of this month

"Mel-Mo" and Hadassah

girls at children's yoga class at the library

 Improvised sippy cup (only water!)

valentines

front yard picnic

my ruby slippers

Dinner event that Chris and I went to with an Arabian Nights theme 
and a live camel at the entrance!

February Dates

This month, Corban and Abigail both drew Daddy dates from the date jar again!

Daddy/Son breakfast date at Panera

Abigail's date included a walk on Las Olas 
(with some skipping!), dessert at a yogurt shop, and then to see some puppies at a pet store!

CC Picture Day

after studying Michelangelo for art one week, the students painted lying down!

Happy Birthday Mr. President

For President's Day, we looked at president cards, 
sang the president's song, and Corban did his president's puzzle

We focused on Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, 

by reading a couple books on his life and presidency, Corban made this log cabin (with pennies under the roof!), and then all the children made edible log cabins 

(I helped Hadassah with hers!).  

Swim Meet

Corban swam in his first swim meet!  

He was hesitant about competing, but agreed to try the Valentine Sizzler meet for 8 and under.  Corban swam 4 events (25 meters each butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle) and he did super! He was the heat winner in his butterfly and breaststroke races and came home with his first two ribbons!  He had a great time with his team and can't wait for his next meet!

 heat winner in his first race! 

 snacks with other swimmers from the Hammerhead Swim Team!

Our Ballerina

More Celebration

Before driving home, we had a delicious lunch at Capital Grille--they had decorated the table with birthday confetti and card and then brought cheesecake with a candle for dessert!

 cup of Cuban coffee

My birthday week of celebration continued Tuesday evening, when Chris and I went to see the musical Wicked!

Free Falling

The next morning, we left the hotel early and drove to a small airport.  Chris reminded me of the time we went on a hot air balloon ride just after we got engaged, so I thought that was what we were doing...until I saw a sign for Miami Skydiving Center! 

ready to go!

My instructor, Chris, could tell I was nervous and said that he would jump with me (he was the most experienced with over 10,000 jumps!).  He asked in what order I wanted to go and I said first! There was one single jumper that went before us, and then we led the 4 tandem jumps.   

Chris said his scariest moment was watching me disappear out of the plane!  Chris with his instructor Anthony (the horse!), they did a flip out of the plane!

we jumped out of the plane at 12,000 feet

and free fall for 7,000 feet at 120 mph (in about 40 seconds)!

Then parachute down 5,000 feet for about 7 minutes.

walking on clouds and spinning in circles with the parachute!

we all landed safely, in a bean field!