New Year's day spent with friends at the Monkeybos

Wheeee!!

Little Jason Monkey

Daredevil Kelley

Jason building the big Lego set he got for xmas from Tracy and Kevin

Came out great; he loves to play with it

Painting a birdhouse (a birthday present from Opa and Oma)

New game: "Animal Upon Animal"

Olaf found a different way to play that ;-)

Trip to the Open Air museum in Arnhem, where they organized some winter activities

Kids were thrilled there was a bit of snow, even though it was only a little

Enough to make a snowball, though!

Also had some "traditional Dutch games" indoor (chance to warm up a little)

Kids got to bake some bread the old fashioned way

Mama and Kelley doing a maze game

Jason really liked those; did all three variants of them

They also had a little skating rink, Jason was a little insecure at the start...

... but was OK on single blades (his first time) very quickly!

Lots of roller skating practice is paying off!

All by himself!

Kelley loved skating with Mila

Cuties

Little artist

Just Dance on the Wii with Kayleigh

Jason switched to a new swimming school (our old one closed); got a sticker sheet he has to fill before getting his diploma

Two weeks later; got the second to last sticker...

... and one more week later he got his final sticker! That went fast! Doing great, and going to try for his diploma now in february!

Kelley and Hopey

Girls on tour: Belinda, Shelby, Marjolein, Elske and Brenda

Creative building with the pieces from a game

Jason the architect; learning how to use Google Sketch Up

And drawing his own building instructions

Which he used to build this house :-)

Yahtzee!

Got the drumkit down from the attic; kids love it!

Luckily it's an electronic one; so not too loud

Very proud boy went to the bakers' all by himself for the first time; did good!

Well, that's one position to read a book in...

Museum trip (Keith Haring expo)

Shelby's favorite artist; was nice to see

Kelley trying to create her own art, and Jason found a little drum machine

Baseball indoor practice started!

Throwing and catching

Fielding

and Batting... he's doing good! (And Kelley is going to try too next month)