Karate Man!

If you would have asked me if I would ever put my kids in karate, the answer would have been NO, but brock has found such a passion for it and is actually pretty good. One of the things that i love about Peru is the fact that activities like this are so cheap that your child can have the chance to try a variety of things to find what they like. Unfortunately, Brock wants to do everything, football(soccer), swimming, karate, tennis you name it he wants to do it. I think we will stick with swim and karate for now.

Brock and his teacher striking a pose. Brock takes his class very seriously, and always has such a look of determination.

Well, and the the occasional smile. His teacher is really fun, and makes the kids laugh which I love.

Dia de Abuelitos!

Every year the school the boys are in have a day to celebrate grandparents, and since we do not have any within 100's of miles Chris and I always go to represent. They always have some sort of show that just makes your heart melt and this year was no different.

Brock's class sang a song and recited a poem from memory. It is always fun for me to see Brock in this type of setting, he is such a performer.

Brock and poppy decorating their project for the grandparents. Man they look alike don't they?

Zander's class however did a dance to Elvis with guitars and the whole deal. It was so darling. This is Zander getting jiggy with Ximena.

They were all supposed to dress like rockstars for the day.

Mini Mundo

Since chris has been working and traveling insane amounts, i have decided not to wait for him to explore more of Peru with my kids. So usually every weekend we try to go someplace new and exciting, which being prego is not always the first thing that mom wants to do, but realizing that i only have a few more months with just two I go for it anyways!

So a few weeks ago, still trying to catch up, we went to a place called Mini Mundo. i had heard great things about this place and was excited to finally take the boyuus there. Well, within about five minutes of being there Brock asks me if it is time to go! I had no idea what it was going to be like, and had much higher expectations, bummer. It was neat to see and go once though. Basically it is a park that has all of Peru displayed, but miniturized with cars, people, airport with moving planes, a stadium etc. But nothing for the kids to touch just to look at. It was amazing to see the replicas but that was about it. Thank heavens for bounce houses though. We ended up staying for a while to let the boys play on the bounce house which they loved. So all in all a good day, but not ready to go back anytime soon.

I love this picture! He looks so devilish but cute at the same time. It truly captures who he is, that is for sure.

A picture of one of the mini models.

I just thought this was a cute shot of Brock. They sat in this tree house overlooking the mini airport watching the mini airplanes drive around.

The Puma!

Ok so it is Zander's turn! His class was in charge of making the Puma for the display, so in his theatre class they pretended to be Puma's. They were so cute!

Zander and his theatre teacher doing improv. I have noticed such a difference in my boys since having the opportunity to do these activities. Such is the life in Peru!

My little Puma, he still to this day pretends to be a Puma at home. In fact I have some sort of animal in my house every day between the two of them. They love to pretend to be animals, and more importantly love to play together.

The puma's attacking their teacher Miss Alyssia.

Catching Up!

So I have been so slow at updating my blog because I have been waiting for my husband who is eternally traveling to download the rest of our summer pictures, but i have now given up and will just have to back later. So here I go backtracking through the last few months!

Brock and Zander's school is awesome. They have a guy who comes every Thursday that goes around to all the classes and teaches them a theatre class, which I love. The teacher is fantastic and i love that my boys get to learn their imagination in different ways. Well, last month the school put together a tour of Peru. They built all the different regions of Peru with the animals that live there, and each class was an animal. So here is Brock being a bird from the Jungle. The teacher has them pretend to do all the things that the bird does in its natural enviornment, it is always so fun to watch my boys learn.

Here is a picture of part of the display they did in front of the school. Each class was in charge of an animal to create for the display. Zander was in charge of the puma, and Brock a bird from the selva, can't remember the name isn't that horrible!

We are just entering into spring here and it is still cold, but I decided to put Brock into swim class to get ready for summer. Well as soon as I did Zander wanted to do it as well, but they dont accept kids until they are 3. So I went in and told them that Brock has brother that is almost 3, not lying right he is closer to 3 than to 2, and if he could try a class to see how he would do. To my surprise they said yes. Well, did I mention that this class is in the big pool, with no shallow end! I was for sure that he would freak out and not eant to do it, but boy was i ever wrong. He is a fish with no fear!

My lil men ready for class. Man how fast they grow!