Sledding and a few random pictures from Albany

Today we took the kids sledding at the cardboard park. I only had my phone but got a few short videos of the kids and Miriam going down the hill in the sled. See the videos here.

While I was going through the pictures from my phone I found a few from our Hanukkah trip to Albany as well.

Christmas Eve at Lita's

Per tradition we all went over to Lita's for Christmas Eve to have dessert and open some presents with Lita and Natania.

This year clothes, socks, Star Wars and Little People were the themes.

After presents, the kids wanted to put cherries on the Lemon Meringue pie...I am not sure why, but they had fun.Not to disappoint, the Fiber Optic Christmas tree and "Fiber Optic Santa" made an appearance in the video as well...a Hungry Caterpillar Monster!!! Don't miss the it!

See a few more pictures and the video here.

Hanukkah Albany/Michigan

This year we spent Hanukkah in 3 states; New York, Minnesota and Michigan.

We kicked off the celebration in Albany at Grandpa & Grandma's house with Stacey, Josh and Gabriel. Each day Grandma Hillary had an activity planned for the kids, Grandpa Ricky made sure we had dinner plans and of course there were candles and presents. We were also able to see the rest of the family; Billy, Joanne, Jessica, Nadine, Michael, GG Pearl, Rene, & Aunt Barbara. See our pictures and a 3 videos from Hanukkah here.

After a few days, we headed back to Michigan, with Grandpa and Grandma a day behind us. They stayed with the kids while Miriam and I spent a few days in Minneapolis.
See some pictures of Grandma and Grandpa's 3 days with the kids as well as Grandma's pictures from Albany on the lower right corner of the page in the "Other Lubin Photos" Section.

Isaac's Songfest at Pre-K

Isaac's Pre-K class had there "Songfest" on Wednesday. They have been preparing for this for several weeks now and we were all really excited to see the kids put on the show. They sang three songs; "Children of the World", "Happy Holidays" and "Jingle Bells". For the first song the kids sang it with sign language which was really sweet, there were a few tears shed. The "Happy Holidays" song was a bit funnier...pay special attention to Isaac and his letter "A". He did a great job correcting himself....



After the songs we all had a snack and got to spend some time with Isaac's friends and their parents.

Isaac also made us a calendar with a picture of Cosmo on it and all of our Birthday's identified with a star.
There is a video of the song fest and some more pictures at the link.

Olivia and the Caramel

The other night Miriam left Olivia alone for a few minutes with a some caramel....see the video.

Jeepers

We took the kids to Great Lakes Crossing to get some shopping done and ride some rides. Check out the video of Isaac and I on the bumper cars.

Isaac Ice Skating

Isaac started Ice skating a few weeks ago. He is really enjoying it. He can now stand up on his own, touch his toes, "march" and glide a bit.

This week after the ice skating class there was a hockey game which we were able to stay after and watch. He was very interested in the game, and is starting to ask questions about the rules. For some reason he is especially interested in the penalty box....

By the way the girl next to him is not Olivia....just the other student in his class.

Also here is a picture of Isaac pretending to be me....