"I look like a professional!"

Connor got a dirt bike helmet and pads for Christmas (to wear while riding the minibike). He couldn't have been more excited! I asked him to pose in his new gear, and he got a huge grin and said, "I look like a professional!"


We didn't make it outside onto the mini bike Christmas day, but he spent a couple hours on it over the next few days. We even had to go back and buy the goggles for the helmet because "the really professional guys wear goggles with their helmets and I need to practice for when I'm famous." Gotta love a gift that provides safety AND boosts his ego. LOL!!!

Holiday Madness

After a morning of being up early, the frenzy of opening gifts and stockings, and having bellies full of "breakfast casserole", you can't help but flop down and relax...


*grin*

Santa!

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(The year of the troll Santa!! We weren't happy, but had no time in our schedule to go back and hope for a better one!)


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Connor's 1st Wrestling Meet

Connor had his first wrestling meet last night. He wrestled in three matches. He lost the first one fair and square, but he lost the second one due to a misunderstanding. He was ahead by quite a bit in points, and definitely had the upper hand during the bulk of the match, but almost at the very end of the third round, the kid sat on Connor's stomach, which Connor thought meant he'd lost, so he lay there and waited for the kid to get off him, but since the match wasn't actually over yet, Connor lay there and gave the kid an easy pin. Afterwards, his coach told him to keep going if he's ever confused again, because if the round is truly over, the ref will put a hand on him to let him know if he doesn't stop right away. In the third match, Connor won by pinning the kid, and also with a score of 25-0. You can tell Connor took the coach's words to heart, because after he pinned the kid, Connor stayed right on top of the kid in the pinned position until they lifted him off. ha!

These pictures are from the third match. I took a bunch of video, which blogger won't let me upload for some reason. I'll get my BFF Kaci to do it for me since she seems to have the magic touch, and I'll share them another day. I belatedly thought to toss Emily my phone to have her take a few pictures.

Almost has him pinned!


Pinned!


They did a second round, even though Connor pinned him in the first round. This was basically just a practice meet, and they wanted all the kids to have the experience of starting in the different positions and putting some of their learned skills from practices to use, so they had the boys do a second round anyway.

Connor came away with a few wounds, but nothing major, and he's VERY pleased with his evening. He LOVED the meet, and kept such a great attitude the whole time. I was very proud of him.









There was another huge red one almost the entire width of his back, but I forgot to take a picture of it once he was out of the shower...

Despite the fact it was bedtime and we still had a 30+ minute drive home, we stopped for ice cream to celebrate!

Wrestling

Tonight will be Connor's very first wrestling match (meet? I don't even know the lingo! ha!). He got his singlet at practice Monday night, which he calls his "single-ette". *grin* He's pretty darn proud and excited!


I checked the size once he VERY unwillingly took it off; apparently they don't believe in children's sizes? Adult 4XS?


The coach said the other team has a TON of first graders on the team, so Connor would probably be getting to wrestle multiple times. We'll see how this all goes down. Wish him luck!

Zebra Hats

Back in November, I got an order for baby boy and baby girl zebra hats for boy/girl twins due late February or early March of 2013. Once the hats were completed, the lady ordering them asked me to do a pink/blue combo one for the mommy-to-be. I finished the orders awhile ago, but haven't coordinated getting delivering them yet.

I actually meant to post this picture yesterday, but I messed up the "schedule" feature and it didn't post.


Later in the day yesterday afternoon, as I was realizing my post hadn't posted, I also found out that the babies had been born that day--at only 26 weeks gestation. The girl weighed 1lb 4oz and the boy weighed 1lb 8oz. Please keep the two babies in your thoughts!

Nutcracker artwork

Jared's class made giant nutcrackers as an art project this month, which were used to help decorate the gym during the "Winter Breakfast for Dinner" event last week. Now that the event is over, the nutcrackers have been moved onto either side of a long hallway in the school. It's pretty neat to walk down and see 24 huge nutcrackers standing at attention! This picture was taken while they were still hanging in the gym. Jared's is the one is the middle. He calls it "Angry George Washington". haha!!