Fun times

Here are the kids having some fun.

Painting pottery

Here is Montgomery Moose

David learning to chop mushrooms

Snuggles out for a spin in the crazy coupe

Snuggles has a play date with baby sitter Nuria's bear

Peanut butter bear (birthday gift from Maddy) checks out Daddy's monitor

Easter egg hunt at home in the snow

Checking out the loot

Not the real Easter bunny, but still cute

Dude, it's a llama...

Kung Fu Demontration

Kids are participating in annual demo. Here they're doing nunchucks.

 

Musical interlude

Here the kids are having fun with the "drums" and guitar.

Snuggles goes for a ride

Maddy just loves her giant bear Snuggles. Here is going for a ride in the mini-van.

Hatchimals

Maddy just loves her new hatchmals twins.
Here is the video of them hatching.

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Kids winter concert

Here are videos from the kid's winter concert. Maddy's class sings "Shalom" and David's class sings "In the living years".  Both kids are on the top row, far left.

David speaks Spanish

David is learning to speak Spanish at school.  Here is a doing a dialogue with a friend at assembly.

Christmas 2017

Ho Ho Ho, another year of Christmas cheer.

Annual Holiday photo

One of Laurent's favorite ornaments-the Chestnut Hill Local Newspaper

Maddy gets one of the "hot" Christmas toys-Hatchimal twins

Tyler the tiger, (another "hot" Christmas toy) and Snuggles the giant bear

Christmas at the Russells

Playing with Holt

Playing the piano at Holt & Karsten's house

Fall fun

Here are some pictures from the fall:
The first 2 are drawings by David and Maddy, respectively, drawn on my old thesis paper (the $0.50 per sheet paper, I might add!).  Glad to see it got put to good use.

Progress Halloween party

Maddy checks out the balloon guy

David's minecraft creeper

Kung Fu belt tests: David is now blue, and Maddy is green belt.