Tai Kwon Do

We have taken the girls temporarily out of preschool to give our pockets a break during the holiday and also give mommy a break from all the colds and flu's they have been bringing home lately. As I am writing this I am recovering from a terrible cold. Aside from this, we have a rat eating holes through my car. The latest damages include a hole through my leather seats and my GPS system not working. Despite setting a dozen traps in and around the car each night, we were still not able to stop the dirty rat. So today we had an exterminator visit us. I hope this is the last we will be seeing of the elusive rat.

Other news, Sahara and Maya have started Tai Kwon Do classes. Their teacher, Master Jun at Sky Martial Arts, is amazing with the kids. Maya has become a star student. Sahara on the other had has been playing more than focusing, but I'm sure that will improve with time.

Sahara waiting in line to do a new exercise.

Check out Sahara stretching.


Respect and discipline is a big deal there and at the end and beginning of each class, everyone bows to the teachers and parents. Another cool thing is that the kids are training to say, "YES SIR !" every time the teacher asks them to do something. It's so cute !!!

Look at my happy campers in their new uniforms.

Here's the class waiting for the teacher to give them instructions. Aside from the main teacher, their are 3 - 4 assistant teachers that are giving they students one-on-one attention.

Here's a little clip from their first class. So cute !!!!

Happy Halloween

I think it is safe to say that we milked Halloween for all it was worth. We went to two pumpkin patches, had a Halloween party at school, had a Halloween play date, went to the library for a spooky story telling night and went to the Wild Animal Park on Halloween day. In addition to this, the girls made a ton of Halloween crafts and had a great time passing out candy and trick or treating on Halloween night. Needless to say I am very happy that we are past this holiday.

Here are a few of the pumpkin creations the girls made.

Here are the spiders the girls made at the Wild Animal Park craft table.

We had a little pumpkin carving competition. Daddy Nader was on one team and all the girls were on another. Here's daddy Nader's creation. Not bad....not bad....

Here's the pumpkin Maya, Sahara and mommy made. Now you be the judge on who won.

My two little dears petting a rather large deer.

Sahara didn't want to leave this deer's side.

Here's Sahara sitting in an egg. She is reenacting the hatching of a baby dinosaur.

We rode the carousel five times that day. As you can see mommy is enjoying herself.

Here's a picture of Sahara being Sahara. I say "smile !" and she sticks out her tongue.

Look how big Maya looks.

We went to a Halloween play date at our friends house. Here's the craft table we set up.

Here's Sahara going nuts with the glitter. Did I mention that blue is her favorite color. Oh, I forgot to mention that Sahara no longer uses a binky. I know, totally amazing.

Here's the girls preschool class getting ready to perform their Halloween program. It was mayhem but totally cute. Can you spot Dragon Sahara and Dalmatian Maya.

Here's a closer look.

Here's a picture of mommy messing around with her little monsters.

We went to the Murrieta public library for their spooky story telling one fine evening. Our little Dragon and Dalmatian was paying close attention.

Now that Halloween is over our only struggle is the candy of course.