Daddy and Phoenix had a lovely time on the last day of school at Santa's breakfast. Here is a picture of Phoenix with one of her friends. They had a two hour breakfast with Santa and then had early dismissal. I picked up Phoenix from school while Axel attended Kristin's b-day celebration as it was her birthday.
When we got home, we had a little scare as I was putting Rubix down for a nap. Phoenix was playing with her barbies in the play room and I suddenly heard popping noises and then smelled an awful gas smell coming from the guest bathroom. I quickly called Keith and then 911. We thought it was a natural gas leak, but luckily it was nothing. We think we have a clogged ventilation duct, but we still have another 3 weeks to wait for our plumber to come. Let's just say everyone gets busy, or takes time off during the holidays, which makes for slow fixes in the Szolusha house!
The awesome thing is we have an AMAZING fire department and they entertained the kids and made sure the house was safe.
On Christmas Eve we had a lovely day of baking cookies, Tirmasu, pumpkin scones, ham and more. Phoenix and I spent most of the day in the kitchen. We were both glad to enjoy a beautiful Church service and the yummy food. Axel happen to be at a friend's house most of the afternoon. One of his Harker buddies moved in half a mile away. It was a pleasant surprise!
Here are the boys all dressed up for church, except Rubix who refuses to wear winter clothes or anything other than cotton lose shorts and t-shirts.
I love this picture of Keith and the kids.
My loves!
The kids in their new PJ's. We didn't do matching pajamas this year because Rubix doesn't wear any and I didn't have a chance to go shopping until 2 weeks before Christmas and they were all soled out!
The kids opening their stockings Christmas morning.
Rubix figuring out what presents are.
Axel smiling, knowing that this heavy rectangular box is his own new laptop computer!
Phoenix loving Christmas morning!
Phoenix and I got hula hoops for Christmas. We have so much fun doing this together!
Thanks little Grammy!
Daddy trying to figure out what Mrs. Szolusha bought for him....a small day luggage bad, that isn't as good or useful as I hoped :(
We headed to Auntie's house at noon and made great time. We enjoyed an afternoon and evening filled with fun games, conversation and a delicious grab leg meal. Here is Aya and Rubix playing with her new Lego table.
Braylin, Phoenix and Axel enjoying dinner. We got home quite late, but it was a wonderful day. The kids slept in until 8:40 am the next night which was an awesome treat for Keith and I.
Phoenix finally had her play date with Kyla. She actually had one at the park and one at the house. Here they are playing school. The girls get a long so well. It was really nice for her to have a couple of play dates because Axel got to see his friends 4 times over the 2+ week break.
Axel has been swimming and running the mile with Daddy. He also has been enjoying the virtual reality bike at the gym. He swam and hour and then rode for 30 minutes one day. The really cool thing is that his mile time went from a 9+ minute to a 7:58 pace over the course of 3 or 4 weeks. He even ran an 8:30 today in the rain with me. He is even talking about wanting to continue to work on his speed as he wants to be a good runner and swimmer. I am so proud of him starting to enjoy physical activity and seeing that he likes trying hard.
I had to work New Year's week so Keith stayed home with the kids. They had such a good time with Daddy. It was really nice being together as a family during Christmas week, although Daddy worked a couple of days to make up for the days he was missing during New Year's week.
On New Years Day we went for a hike to Deer Hollow Farm. The kids had fun despite the very cold (low 40's) temperature.
Rubix won't wear pants so he had to stay in the stroller until he put pants on. He is so funny with the winter clothes thing.
We all had fun watching a cow get milked. It was a bit ironic as Keith mentioned how we should go to a dairy farm and watch a cow get milked. We just lucked out on timing!
The kids and I and Rubix is shorts in 45 degree weather!
The other big surprise was a few days ago when I saw the big whole in Axel's tooth. He was talking about hard white chunks coming out of his mouth for a week. I didn't realize he had a huge cavity! I am waiting to have him get evaluated by a pediatric dentist as his dentist says the cavity goes very close to the nerve and he will likely need a "kids root canal". They were closed this weekend so I will see how quickly we can get in. Hopefully, sometime this coming week.
We are feeling so very blessed in the Szolusha household. We have such wonderful family and friends. We spent New Year's Day, after the hike, with my best friend from high school, Tiffany's family. Keith has been very supportive in all of the deadlines I have coming up. I likely won't post until late January after Phoenix's birthday party. We have another fun filled month of activities. Until then, God Bless!
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