A couple of weeks ago, Dan moved from a condo to a townhouse. It's a much bigger place, where he can have a few people over if he wants. He finally bought some living room couches, so he had a little couch celebration with a frew friends. I took all of my girls (Katelyn, Ashley, Natalia and Indira) over to his place to check it out.
Ashley and Katelyn danced their little tails off all evening! And Dan's friend Dave even joined them for a bit! It was very cute :)
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Cake for Mom & Chuck's 15th Wedding Anniversary
On Labor Day weekend Mom and Chuck celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary with a BBQ party at their house. Per my mom’s request I made them a special wedding anniversary cake. I made a 16” round butter cake with raspberry mouse filling and almond flavored Italian meringue buttercream.
The plan was to decorate the cake with stargazer oriental lilies like the ones my mom had in her wedding bouquet, little did I know that those flowers are not that easy to find. I went all over town looking for them, and when I was almost ready to give up, I found a few in an arrangement on display at Foodtown. The florist was not for the day, so I had to convince the store manager to take apart the arrangement and sell me the flowers. Luckily they agreed, and I was home free!
The plan was to decorate the cake with stargazer oriental lilies like the ones my mom had in her wedding bouquet, little did I know that those flowers are not that easy to find. I went all over town looking for them, and when I was almost ready to give up, I found a few in an arrangement on display at Foodtown. The florist was not for the day, so I had to convince the store manager to take apart the arrangement and sell me the flowers. Luckily they agreed, and I was home free!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
First earthquake and now a hurricane!?!
As if the Earthquake, on August 23rd, wasn’t enough excitement, we were now in the path of the Hurricane Irene, heading straight for Monmouth County, with expected arrival of early Sunday morning, on August 28th! It was a very serious threat to our area. Haven’t seen how other parts of the country have gotten devastated by hurricanes in the last five years, we wanted to make sure that we were prepared. With two little kids at home, we didn’t want to take any chances.
On Thursday, we stocked up on food, water, flashlights, batteries and candles. Every supermarket was packed with people buying everything and anything! All of the water and bread shelves were empty! It was craziness, much worse then what we see before a snow storm. We purchased plastic in case a window gets blown out and we need to seal it. We also got a backup battery powered sump pump for the basement. If we lost power, our regular pump wouldn’t work, and our basement could flood. We bought two car batteries to power the backup pump in case we needed to.
On Friday, Indira spent the whole afternoon at Lowes waiting for a generator delivery. We don’t have one, and if we lost power for a week or more, all of the food in our two fridges would not survive for more than a couple of days max. A thousand dollars later, we had a generator in the garage, along with 15 gallons of gasoline. We didn’t open up the box, hoping that if the generator doesn’t get used, we’d return it back to the store.
Also, on Friday we made sure to secure everything outside, here’s some picture of the stuff on our deck:
We put as much stuff in the shed as we could fit, some stuff in the garage and the rest we had to tie down with rope. One of our neighbors was away on vacation, so we got together and secured their front and backyard as well. The concern was that if we get a 100 mile an hour wind gust it could blow a heavy object into someone’s house window, door or even knock out a wall.
Saturday we woke up to an overcast sky, and by afternoon the rain started coming down. Mike was busy working with the town’s emergency team to make sure everything ready. He brought home an SUV to use for the weekend, in case the streets got flooded and he needed to get to borough hall. He also brought home a police two-way radio so that he could communicate with the police if power went out. Everyone was concerned about what was to come, lucky for us though, we have great neighbors, so Saturday night we went next door for a hurricane party! Everyone brought something to eat/drink, and we had a good old time, cheering all the tornado warnings that appeared on TV and drinking Hurricane cocktails. Being occupied and having fun totally took the mind off the hurricane situation outside. We stayed until 10pm, and then had to return home so that the kids could get to bed. We had a full house of people, Joan and David were staying over, Indira and Natalia were here, as well as Dan. We figured, there’s safety in numbers, and being all in one place would be better in case an emergency happened.
After kids went to bed, it got a little scary, you could hear the winds gusting outside, and the power was flickering. Mike was at the townhall and reported that north and south of us there was no power, so it was inevitable that were going to be next. The tornado warnings kept flashing on TV, and that was the scariest part of all, would we hear it coming and have enough time to get to the basement? And Mike wasn’t even home! Finally around 1 am, Mike got back home. All of the emergency personnel and police were spending the night at the borough hall. The plan was that no one was to go out on the streets until the storm was over. It wasn’t safe, since tree branches were breaking and power lines were all over the streets. It was a night from hell, but when the morning came, we realized we didn’t even lose power! Our garbage fence fell over as well as a few trees in the back, but that was it! We were very lucky! There was no flooding on our street and looked like everything was just fine! So, what are we to do? The answer was simple, have an after hurricane party! Since we stocked up on bread and cold cuts, I invited our neighbors over to our house for a grilled cheese party! We spent the afternoon and evening drinking sangrias and eating grilled cheese with turkey, ham and tomato. Everyone stayed for dinner, and we were able to free our grill of rope and grill some hot dogs and burgers! It was another awesome night!
Ashley took some pictures..
The month of August brought three times the amount of rain we usually get. Because the water levels are so high, not everyone was as lucky as we were. Many people didn’t have power for a week and some even longer. People in other parts of the state had major flooding. Luckily all of our family and friends got away with minor damage and short power outage periods!
I think we got lucky because we were very prepared for whatever was to come. Some way say that we overreacted, but I disagree, you can never be too prepared for something like this!
On Thursday, we stocked up on food, water, flashlights, batteries and candles. Every supermarket was packed with people buying everything and anything! All of the water and bread shelves were empty! It was craziness, much worse then what we see before a snow storm. We purchased plastic in case a window gets blown out and we need to seal it. We also got a backup battery powered sump pump for the basement. If we lost power, our regular pump wouldn’t work, and our basement could flood. We bought two car batteries to power the backup pump in case we needed to.
On Friday, Indira spent the whole afternoon at Lowes waiting for a generator delivery. We don’t have one, and if we lost power for a week or more, all of the food in our two fridges would not survive for more than a couple of days max. A thousand dollars later, we had a generator in the garage, along with 15 gallons of gasoline. We didn’t open up the box, hoping that if the generator doesn’t get used, we’d return it back to the store.
Also, on Friday we made sure to secure everything outside, here’s some picture of the stuff on our deck:
We put as much stuff in the shed as we could fit, some stuff in the garage and the rest we had to tie down with rope. One of our neighbors was away on vacation, so we got together and secured their front and backyard as well. The concern was that if we get a 100 mile an hour wind gust it could blow a heavy object into someone’s house window, door or even knock out a wall.
Saturday we woke up to an overcast sky, and by afternoon the rain started coming down. Mike was busy working with the town’s emergency team to make sure everything ready. He brought home an SUV to use for the weekend, in case the streets got flooded and he needed to get to borough hall. He also brought home a police two-way radio so that he could communicate with the police if power went out. Everyone was concerned about what was to come, lucky for us though, we have great neighbors, so Saturday night we went next door for a hurricane party! Everyone brought something to eat/drink, and we had a good old time, cheering all the tornado warnings that appeared on TV and drinking Hurricane cocktails. Being occupied and having fun totally took the mind off the hurricane situation outside. We stayed until 10pm, and then had to return home so that the kids could get to bed. We had a full house of people, Joan and David were staying over, Indira and Natalia were here, as well as Dan. We figured, there’s safety in numbers, and being all in one place would be better in case an emergency happened.
After kids went to bed, it got a little scary, you could hear the winds gusting outside, and the power was flickering. Mike was at the townhall and reported that north and south of us there was no power, so it was inevitable that were going to be next. The tornado warnings kept flashing on TV, and that was the scariest part of all, would we hear it coming and have enough time to get to the basement? And Mike wasn’t even home! Finally around 1 am, Mike got back home. All of the emergency personnel and police were spending the night at the borough hall. The plan was that no one was to go out on the streets until the storm was over. It wasn’t safe, since tree branches were breaking and power lines were all over the streets. It was a night from hell, but when the morning came, we realized we didn’t even lose power! Our garbage fence fell over as well as a few trees in the back, but that was it! We were very lucky! There was no flooding on our street and looked like everything was just fine! So, what are we to do? The answer was simple, have an after hurricane party! Since we stocked up on bread and cold cuts, I invited our neighbors over to our house for a grilled cheese party! We spent the afternoon and evening drinking sangrias and eating grilled cheese with turkey, ham and tomato. Everyone stayed for dinner, and we were able to free our grill of rope and grill some hot dogs and burgers! It was another awesome night!
Ashley took some pictures..
The month of August brought three times the amount of rain we usually get. Because the water levels are so high, not everyone was as lucky as we were. Many people didn’t have power for a week and some even longer. People in other parts of the state had major flooding. Luckily all of our family and friends got away with minor damage and short power outage periods!
I think we got lucky because we were very prepared for whatever was to come. Some way say that we overreacted, but I disagree, you can never be too prepared for something like this!
Earthquake in NJ!!
The first week of Natalia’s stay with us wasn’t without an adventure. Five days after she arrived at our house, on August 23rd, we had an earthquake! In New Jersey!! This is totally unheard of for this area, it was the first for all of us (other than Indira), it was an experience like no other, pretty scary not knowing how long it will last.
What happened is that a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit in Virginia and it was felt all the way up the East coast. The intensity in NJ was estimated at about three. I was at work, and saw the wall of my office and the floor under my feet do a wave, and then it did it again. It felt very strange, but luckily there was no damage in our area and it was over in under a minute. I called home right away - kids were napping and didn’t even realize what happened, and Indira and Natalia were in the basement, they thought it was Natalia moving the couch. After checking in with everyone to make sure that everyone is alright we were happy report that we survived our first Earthquake!!
What happened is that a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit in Virginia and it was felt all the way up the East coast. The intensity in NJ was estimated at about three. I was at work, and saw the wall of my office and the floor under my feet do a wave, and then it did it again. It felt very strange, but luckily there was no damage in our area and it was over in under a minute. I called home right away - kids were napping and didn’t even realize what happened, and Indira and Natalia were in the basement, they thought it was Natalia moving the couch. After checking in with everyone to make sure that everyone is alright we were happy report that we survived our first Earthquake!!
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Ellie's Visit from Germany
This summer Ellie came to visit us for a month from Germany. Ellie became our au pair when Nastya left us unexpectedly. Ellie was already in country and was in transition from another host family with only 5 months left of her au pair year. We had to find someone quick since we needed help and Katelyn was barely two weeks old. We couldn’t be happier when Ellie arrived. She was a great help with new-born Katelyn on a heart monitor and a super jealous 2 ½ year old Ashley. Ellie returned back to Germany in December of 2009 after Indira got here. We loved the five months that Ellie spent with us and were very excited when Ellie asked if she could visit this summer. It’s been a year and a half since she saw everyone.
When Ellie arrived here, it was as if she never left (other than the kids being older). It was cool to watch her get to know the “big girl” Katelyn and our four year old going on 13 Ashley. When Ellie left Katelyn was a little baby, and now she’s a walking-talking toddler monkey girl! And Ashley’s changed quite a bit as well; she talks like she could be a teenager, she likes to have long conversations, and is very particular about her clothes. She can also write and draw real pictures of stuff.
Ellie came here with a suitcase full of food for us from Germany, everything from pounds of chocolate for me and beer for Mike, to German mulled wine, canned corn and even bread! It was like we got a taste of Germany right here in our house! Ellie had a long list of foods that she wanted to have while she stayed with us so she kept me busy cooking up her favorites, including cedar plank grilled salmon, Thai curry, chicken fajitas, chocolate chip pancakes, breakfast turkey sausage patties, just to name a few! Apparently, in Germany, they don’t have frozen yogurt, so that’s another thing that Ellie missed a lot.
We spent an awesome month with Ellie. We went to the beach, peach picking, birthday parties, swimming to neighbor's pool and to see my mom. We all enjoyed her company, and I especially appreciated all of the help Ellie provided with my house projects. Thanks to her, we now have a new powder room on the first floor! (More about that in another post) And I think Ellie enjoyed being here as well, besides having fun with us, she also got to do a lot of shopping! Also, another au pair, Geli, who watched kids one town away was also here during the time of Ellie’s visit. So, it was like an au pair reunion. Ellie and Geli were friends before, and now they got to see each other again!
Ellie left to go home right after Natalia arrived here. For a weekend, we had three au pairs in our house – Ellie, Indira and Natalia! When we went to drop off Ellie at the airport, Geli came along as well! Wow, four au pairs in one minivan! We definitely made some great memories!
When Ellie arrived here, it was as if she never left (other than the kids being older). It was cool to watch her get to know the “big girl” Katelyn and our four year old going on 13 Ashley. When Ellie left Katelyn was a little baby, and now she’s a walking-talking toddler monkey girl! And Ashley’s changed quite a bit as well; she talks like she could be a teenager, she likes to have long conversations, and is very particular about her clothes. She can also write and draw real pictures of stuff.
Ellie came here with a suitcase full of food for us from Germany, everything from pounds of chocolate for me and beer for Mike, to German mulled wine, canned corn and even bread! It was like we got a taste of Germany right here in our house! Ellie had a long list of foods that she wanted to have while she stayed with us so she kept me busy cooking up her favorites, including cedar plank grilled salmon, Thai curry, chicken fajitas, chocolate chip pancakes, breakfast turkey sausage patties, just to name a few! Apparently, in Germany, they don’t have frozen yogurt, so that’s another thing that Ellie missed a lot.
We spent an awesome month with Ellie. We went to the beach, peach picking, birthday parties, swimming to neighbor's pool and to see my mom. We all enjoyed her company, and I especially appreciated all of the help Ellie provided with my house projects. Thanks to her, we now have a new powder room on the first floor! (More about that in another post) And I think Ellie enjoyed being here as well, besides having fun with us, she also got to do a lot of shopping! Also, another au pair, Geli, who watched kids one town away was also here during the time of Ellie’s visit. So, it was like an au pair reunion. Ellie and Geli were friends before, and now they got to see each other again!
Ellie left to go home right after Natalia arrived here. For a weekend, we had three au pairs in our house – Ellie, Indira and Natalia! When we went to drop off Ellie at the airport, Geli came along as well! Wow, four au pairs in one minivan! We definitely made some great memories!
Welcome Natalia!
On August 19th, our new au pair, Natalia, has finally arrived at our house from Germany! Here’s a picture of our first lunch together on the day she arrived with our three au pairs - past, present and future :)
She’s great, just like we thought she’d be when we chatted on Skype leading up to her arrival. Her family is originally from Kazakstan and they moved to Germany when Natalia was 2, so she speaks Russian, German and English. The plan is that she’ll continue to help me teach the kids Russian little by little.
I must say, she’s the tallest au pair we’ve ever had at 5’ 10” everyone in the house looks short! We’ve gone through the evolution of au pairs, with Nastya being the shortest, Ellie a bit taller, Indira being my height, and Natalia being a perfect model height! Check out a few fun pictures of how Natalia measures up:
Both Ashley and Katelyn liked Natalia from day one. She’s fun and energetic, and you can tell that she genuinely loves kids! So far, the transition has been very easy for us, besides Natalia’s great English, she’s familiar with everything that we have or do. I can’t seem to impress her with anything! She knows how to use a dishwasher, washer/drier, drive a car very well, use kitchen sink grinder, 3D TVs, etc. Her standard reply when I show her something is, ”Ahh yes, we have that in Germany too!”. It’s become a joke around the house. I told her to act surprised once in a while, and pretend like she doesn’t know how something works just to humor me I think so far we’ve only discovered a few things that we have in America that she doesn’t have back home: DVR feature on the TV, full-service gas stations, and something else, I can’t recall at the moment.
I’m impressed with Natalia’s easy going attitude, I thought that for sure we would overwhelm her with our busy lives.. We constantly have a full house of people and it can get a bit crazy, but she seems to enjoy it, being that she comes from a big family (she has an older brother and a younger sister, and lives at home with parents and grandparents!). I think we’ve found another perfect match and will have a great year with Natalia!
She’s great, just like we thought she’d be when we chatted on Skype leading up to her arrival. Her family is originally from Kazakstan and they moved to Germany when Natalia was 2, so she speaks Russian, German and English. The plan is that she’ll continue to help me teach the kids Russian little by little.
I must say, she’s the tallest au pair we’ve ever had at 5’ 10” everyone in the house looks short! We’ve gone through the evolution of au pairs, with Nastya being the shortest, Ellie a bit taller, Indira being my height, and Natalia being a perfect model height! Check out a few fun pictures of how Natalia measures up:
Both Ashley and Katelyn liked Natalia from day one. She’s fun and energetic, and you can tell that she genuinely loves kids! So far, the transition has been very easy for us, besides Natalia’s great English, she’s familiar with everything that we have or do. I can’t seem to impress her with anything! She knows how to use a dishwasher, washer/drier, drive a car very well, use kitchen sink grinder, 3D TVs, etc. Her standard reply when I show her something is, ”Ahh yes, we have that in Germany too!”. It’s become a joke around the house. I told her to act surprised once in a while, and pretend like she doesn’t know how something works just to humor me I think so far we’ve only discovered a few things that we have in America that she doesn’t have back home: DVR feature on the TV, full-service gas stations, and something else, I can’t recall at the moment.
I’m impressed with Natalia’s easy going attitude, I thought that for sure we would overwhelm her with our busy lives.. We constantly have a full house of people and it can get a bit crazy, but she seems to enjoy it, being that she comes from a big family (she has an older brother and a younger sister, and lives at home with parents and grandparents!). I think we’ve found another perfect match and will have a great year with Natalia!
Ashley's Swimming Lessons
Unlike Katelyn, who’s a fearless monkey, Ashley was afraid of the water, and would cling to us in the pool every time we went swimming. She was afraid to let go. But, at the beginning of this summer Ashley asked me to sign her up for swimming lessons. She told me she wants to learn to swim like our neighbors Emma and Liam (her two best friends), it was obvious that she was ready for it. I signed her up for a 10 week session at the Five Star Aquatic Center next to my office, to go once a week for 30 minute class.
The first class Ashley was terrified, she saw the other two kids putting their faces in the water with goggles on, and floating on their backs, and she took off and ran out of the pool. The instructor was very patient, and he helped her get over her fear and by the end the first class she was so excited that she could do what the other kids were doing that she didn’t want her lesson to end. That day we went out and bought Ashley her own pair of goggles.
The second week when we returned, she floated on her back by herself for 5 seconds!! And wasn’t afraid to put her face in the water and blow bubbles. The one week improvement was unbelievable! Ashley gained confidence in the water really quick, plus with some practice in our neighbor’s pool, she actually figured out that she can float and swim by herself with a bubble on. Here’s a video of the first day that she swam by herself with a bubble on:
Yesterday was Ashley’s last swimming lesson of this session. She’s mastered swimming short distances with her face in the water, and floating for 10 seconds. She’s not afraid to jump into the pool from standing position at the edge, and she can pull herself up and out of the pool by grabbing to the side!
Here are some videos from her swimming class two weeks ago:
Out of the four kids in her class she improved the most. She can swim on her back holding on to a board, she can float on her back for 10 seconds or more, and yesterday she was able to swim without any help all of the way across the short end of the pool! She was the only one in her class to be able to do it! We couldn’t be more proud of her! She’s ready to move up to the next level, and that session will start in September and go all the way through December. I can’t wait to see her do even more!
The first class Ashley was terrified, she saw the other two kids putting their faces in the water with goggles on, and floating on their backs, and she took off and ran out of the pool. The instructor was very patient, and he helped her get over her fear and by the end the first class she was so excited that she could do what the other kids were doing that she didn’t want her lesson to end. That day we went out and bought Ashley her own pair of goggles.
The second week when we returned, she floated on her back by herself for 5 seconds!! And wasn’t afraid to put her face in the water and blow bubbles. The one week improvement was unbelievable! Ashley gained confidence in the water really quick, plus with some practice in our neighbor’s pool, she actually figured out that she can float and swim by herself with a bubble on. Here’s a video of the first day that she swam by herself with a bubble on:
Yesterday was Ashley’s last swimming lesson of this session. She’s mastered swimming short distances with her face in the water, and floating for 10 seconds. She’s not afraid to jump into the pool from standing position at the edge, and she can pull herself up and out of the pool by grabbing to the side!
Here are some videos from her swimming class two weeks ago:
Out of the four kids in her class she improved the most. She can swim on her back holding on to a board, she can float on her back for 10 seconds or more, and yesterday she was able to swim without any help all of the way across the short end of the pool! She was the only one in her class to be able to do it! We couldn’t be more proud of her! She’s ready to move up to the next level, and that session will start in September and go all the way through December. I can’t wait to see her do even more!
Monday, August 22, 2011
RIP Blue
When Nastya came over for Katelyn's birthday, she brought Ashley a blue fighting fish. It's called a fighting fish because they'll attack and kill other fish. Ashley was very excited to have her own pet, she named him Blue. We put the fish bowl in her room, and it was her job to feed him every morning and evening, and I'd change his water once a week.
He was doing alright for a couple of months, until he got more and more lethargic over a period of a week, and then one morning Ashley and I found him on his side on the bottom of the tank. Ashley thought he was sleeping, but it was obvious that he wasn’t. Once I told her that he was dead, she got very upset. It’s the first time that something she cared about was no longer living. She was crying so hard and I didn’t know what to say. We needed backup, so Nana came to the rescue. We called her up on the phone and she explained to Ashley that Blue went up to fish heaven, because God needed him to help him take care of the fish. Ashley had a lot of questions about everything, especially how does Blue get to heaven, so Nana explained that it’s God’s secret, and that when no one is around he takes him to heaven. Ashley felt much better knowing that Blue is ok and she talked about him a lot and how she missed him, but it was ok. So, while Ashley ate breakfast, I flushed Blue down the toilet and put the fish bowl with water back in Ashley’s room. When Ashley came up to brush her teeth she saw that Blue was gone and that he was now in heaven. We said a little prayer for him and that’s it. Ashley asked for another fish, but I don’t think we want to do this again right now, perhaps when she’s a bit bigger.
He was doing alright for a couple of months, until he got more and more lethargic over a period of a week, and then one morning Ashley and I found him on his side on the bottom of the tank. Ashley thought he was sleeping, but it was obvious that he wasn’t. Once I told her that he was dead, she got very upset. It’s the first time that something she cared about was no longer living. She was crying so hard and I didn’t know what to say. We needed backup, so Nana came to the rescue. We called her up on the phone and she explained to Ashley that Blue went up to fish heaven, because God needed him to help him take care of the fish. Ashley had a lot of questions about everything, especially how does Blue get to heaven, so Nana explained that it’s God’s secret, and that when no one is around he takes him to heaven. Ashley felt much better knowing that Blue is ok and she talked about him a lot and how she missed him, but it was ok. So, while Ashley ate breakfast, I flushed Blue down the toilet and put the fish bowl with water back in Ashley’s room. When Ashley came up to brush her teeth she saw that Blue was gone and that he was now in heaven. We said a little prayer for him and that’s it. Ashley asked for another fish, but I don’t think we want to do this again right now, perhaps when she’s a bit bigger.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Tinton Falls Summer Rec Camp
This year, we signed Ashley up for the Tinton Falls Summer Recreation Camp to give her something to do in the summer other than hang around at home with her sister. It ran for five weeks from beginning of July, four days a week, from 8:30 – 1pm. Ashley had to bring snacks and lunch every day. Since we usually feed kids real food for lunch, finding food to bring for lunch wasn’t easy. We agreed on a cinnamon raisin toast with butter, along with some fruits. (Ashley can’t have peanut butter because it makes her itchy, and she’s not a fan of cold cuts.) She had the same toast EVERY day for 5 weeks and didn’t get tired of it!
They had to wear her green shirt every day (they gave us two, so we can wash them), which was interesting - the shirt was so large that it was like a dress on Ashley! Here’s a picture of her heading out the camp on the first day:
I can’t say enough good things about the program. Ashley, who’s not a morning person like her mommy and daddy, didn’t complain once about getting up early to go there! Every day they had a new theme and a new activities to do, they went to the Spray Ground, on a pirate ship, to gymnastics, on a Fun Bus, to the Movies, and other trips all in a five weeks time! Every day when we went to pick her up, she was happy to show off her hand-made crafts. It was an awesome program! When I asked her what her favorite theme was, she couldn’t decide on one, she loved them all! Can’t wait for her to do it again next year!
They had to wear her green shirt every day (they gave us two, so we can wash them), which was interesting - the shirt was so large that it was like a dress on Ashley! Here’s a picture of her heading out the camp on the first day:
I can’t say enough good things about the program. Ashley, who’s not a morning person like her mommy and daddy, didn’t complain once about getting up early to go there! Every day they had a new theme and a new activities to do, they went to the Spray Ground, on a pirate ship, to gymnastics, on a Fun Bus, to the Movies, and other trips all in a five weeks time! Every day when we went to pick her up, she was happy to show off her hand-made crafts. It was an awesome program! When I asked her what her favorite theme was, she couldn’t decide on one, she loved them all! Can’t wait for her to do it again next year!
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