Hodge-Podge

January was filled with assorted activities that kept us busy and having fun!

Here are some pictures of our adventures...

We had heard about John's Incredible Pizza Company from our friends and decided to check it out in hopes of redeeming our failed Knott's trip. This was our last "big" family outing before Noah had to go back to work after his Christmas break.

John's has a bunch of games, rides, and a huge buffet of pizza, salad, pasta, dessert, etc.

We had fun exploring this new place and eating the yummy food!

Whack-A-Mole!

Skee-ball

Excited to ride the twirly, spinning ride!

Hmmm...maybe this isn't so fun after all...

Yeah, she was ready to get off!

Noah was asked to take engagement pictures for some church friends and Keira & I tagged along.

It was a bit cold, but a beautiful afternoon at La Jolla Cove!

Keira finished up the music class she had been going to since September.

She really enjoyed playing the instruments, learning about notes and rhythm, following the teacher's instructions set to musical songs/rhymes, and overall having fun. We're not signing up for the next session, but hope to get her back into a music class again in the future.

Following directions with the drum

Taking turns playing the xylophone

Crazy dancing!

Joy!

Here's the 100-piece princess puzzle again!

Hard at work!

The finished product!

Yep, she can complete the puzzle on her own!

Recently, some friends introduced us to the music of Jana Alayra. Apparently, Jana has been around for many years and she sings Christian kid songs and performs concerts (she also has worship CDs for adults and often is a speaker for MOPS groups, etc). Anyway, we have clearly been living under a rock and had never heard of Jana until a few weeks ago! We looked up some of her videos on You Tube and bought a CD to introduce ourselves to her music. Keira instantly loved the songs and really loved the You Tube videos because of the sign language/hand motions Jana uses when performing songs. So, after our introduction to Jana, we went to a local church to see her perform.

Jana in action!

Keira's main interest in the concert was getting to go up on stage to do the motions with Jana. Unfortunately, the 3-year-olds weren't called up on stage until the very last song of the concert, so that was a little disappointing for Keira. However, once her turn came, she LOVED being on stage!

Jump, jump, jump!

Praising Jesus!

Even the dads were called up on stage to perform!

Go, Daddy!

Bustin' a move!

Keira got to have more fun with music and dancing at Ethan's birthday party!!

The two "best dancing partners" ready to get their groove on!

Ice cream sundae bar for dessert--yum!!

Happy birthday, Ethan!

Ice cream smile!

Making a musical shaker bracelet to take home.

Thanks, Ethan, for a great party!

We are continuing our home preschool activities 1 day per week and Keira seems to thoroughly enjoy these days.

Art & craft time is a favorite activity!

Working on a counting activity

More art projects

One day we spent the morning at Art Soup and enjoyed lots more arts & crafts activities!

Let's paint!

It's okay to get messy here!

Painting a rainbow

We are so thankful for all the fun things we get to be a part of around town and with friends and family!