Busy week to finish out January

Playing in the waiting room at the pediatrician's office.

I was teaching Charlie how girls want to be treated. He started with being well dressed:)

Handsome kid.

Just Dance.

Grandma Lu sent Toby a garbage truck for his birthday. He loves it (and all trucks he sees around town)!

Toby's drawing - a person with glasses.

Grace had lots of free time this week with 3 days of online school. I supervised her making sweet and sour chicken (lots of vegetable and chicken chopping, plus breading and frying). 

BYU Creamery ice cream from Grandma Terisa, and brownies the girls made.

Clean room with the bunk bed taken apart.

Playing Flake-opoly on Sunday morning.

Swiss steak on Sunday. Not photogenic, but oh so tasty!

Cool kid.

That garbage truck comes with 4 different colored trash cans. So cool!

Paul's new microphone for podcasting. Everyone want to try it out!

Sweet and sour chicken. It took about an hour for her to prep.

Online school for 3 days this week when her school went past the covid threshold.

Toby thought it was hilarious when he'd put a wheat thin in his mouth vertically.

The teacher gave me this pic ahead of Danny's parent-teacher conference.

Sunset one night from our backyard.

Happy little guy!

Charlie made these from some insurance ads we got in the mail.

Typical Grace.

Lanky!

Thanks for the ice cream, Grandma!

Finally made this ministering "transfer board" the RS president has been wanting me to make for months. Grace and Alice helped, along with my friend and her daughter.

My cute girls.

Charlie's photo of Sharky for the pet parade in his class.

:)

New puzzle.

Danny had an hour or two when everyone else was gone, Toby was napping, and Paul was working (from home). So he spent his time doing sciencey stuff.

Toby's 3rd birthday and the end of Early Intervention

Let's start this week off with Danny trying on Grace's high heels.

Toby loves "reading" with the Tag pen.

Sister love:)

Charlie made a giant "burrow" on the guest bed with all the blankets, pillows, and stuffed animals he could find.

Before the burrow, cracking up on the guest bed.

Scrub jay outside our kitchen window.

Sewing with the kids. It was Charlie's first time!

Baking Toby's birthday cake. He was a good helper.

We moved Alice's bed away from the wall so she could clean out under it:(

Burrow buddies.

Looking at pics on my phone.

Toby's new birthday puzzles.

Weird boys waiting in the car.

Virtual sacrament meeting.

Story time practice for Toby.

Hanging out on the guest bed.

Grace organized the blanket closet!

Cute little guy and his sandwich.

Learning to sew.

Drive to Farmington Bay one day.

Alice likes to hang out with us sometimes.

So sweet:)

Yeah.

Paul grilled burgers and Grace made oven fries one night.

Learning to use a napkin.

Sweety in the bathtub!

The girls made vision boards in YW to show their Children/Youth goals.

Big boy.

This kid.

Paul making Toby laugh.

New blanket shelf for the family room.

Snow one night.

Alice helped me decorate Toby's cake.

They are good big sisters.

Playing Acquire with Paul last night.

Cute guy at breakfast this morning.

New puzzles.

Alice's cute hair.

Grandma/pa Gabe came for the gift opening time. The wooden stand mixer they gave Toby was a big hit!

He got such fun stuff!

Birthday lunch.

Cake time.

Bubble machine.

My wonderful husband giving Toby a bath.

Grace (and Paul and I) helped Alice clean under/around/behind her bed.

She's a pretty good girl after all.

Just eating a sandwich.

This is how Grace sits up on the barstool when she's actually excited about the book she's writing.

Charlie cut up a print-out of our family picture and did old-school photoshop with it.

He also dresses his hamburger like this.

He took this candid shot of dinner one night.

Charlie's drawings are SO cute. This is called "How to Exercise in the Pond".

Here it is in color. Fish riding a bike, swan boxing a punching bag, seagull karate chopping, salamander running, and then a frog wrestling match on the bottom, complete with a huge audience. So creative!

And, they covered their faces with stickers.

Sisters chat. Apparently when my internet cut out, my face was frozen like that for 5 minutes.

Hey, at least I had a good laugh;)