"Cause this is THRILLER"

Thanks to freezing temperatures and an abnormal amount of snow in Paris, we have been forced to remain indoors.  As any of you parents know, staying inside all day means one of two things: kids are calm all day and then can't sleep at night, or the kids go crazy all day and leave the house in shambles.  Neither of these options are acceptable to me because I am in charge of bedtime and damage control, so it has forced me to be extra creative all week.  Luckily, daddy just came home from 9 days in China bearing many gifts, all in the form of games (Nico-3 points)!  When they got bored of games, we painted, when they got bored of painting, we had dance parties to Michael Jackson in the kitchen.  This has led to an odd fascination of Michael Jackson by Alice and Lucien.  They are requesting daily that we listen to MJ, and have actually begun memorizing the words!  So yesterday, I thought a fun activity for us would be to watch the Thriller dance, and then learn it.  I gave up quite quickly (it's harder than it looks!) but LuLu persevered and managed to complete the entire dance 3 times!  Lucky me, I was able to sneak a video of his smooth moves...(dang, I tried to insert the video, but it's too big!!)


Other fun things keeping us busy include:

~Alice's ballet "performance"

~Gingerbread house-making with Ally's kids:

Notice Lucien's house, err, pile of candy...

~More random dance parties, but this time with their new friends:

~ And of course, movies and DS occasionally:

All to stay out of this:

And then Ally and I celebrate like this:

That's our week in a nutshell!!  My family is on their way to Paris as we speak so I'm not sure how many blog posts I will get to in the next 2 weeks!  If I don't see you before then, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!