Story told by: Henry
I’m seven years old today!
It was such a great day, and I’m so excited to be seven!
Starring Lainey, Henry, and Brody!
Story told by: Henry
I’m seven years old today!
It was such a great day, and I’m so excited to be seven!
Story told by: Brody
We love, love, love Valentine’s Day!
And because Mommy forgot to take any pictures after dinner, I’ll let you know that we had cake for dessert, and then snuggled up to watch a movie and eat our Valentine’s Day treats. It was a wonderful day!
Story told by: Lainey
We were supposed to fly to visit our family in Illinois for Christmas this year, but due to COVID, we decided to be extra safe and stay home!
It was such a fun way to end our day! We came home to eat our easy Christmas dinner, played some video games, and then went to bed. It was much different than normal, but also such a fun day! Merry Christmas everyone!
We invite you to grab some popcorn and hot chocolate and enjoy our ten-minute Christmas recital!
Story told by: Brody
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We have made the choice to spend the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays with just us this year due to COVID, and while we miss family, we’re determined to make the best of it and make fun memories!
We had a fun, relaxing day with lots of laughs and good family time together! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Story told by: Lainey
I had my dress rehearsal yesterday and was gearing up for my dance recital next weekend! They were going to let just one dance class into the auditorium at a time, and the immediate families could watch while spread far apart. Unfortunately new COVID regulations means that we just found out today that my in-person recital can’t happen. I was VERY disappointed. But Mommy talked with Chloe and Ani’s mom, and we decided we could do our very own recital! So while watching church we got to work!
Story told by: Brody
We weren’t sure what Halloween was going to look like this year, but I’ve got to tell you…it ended up being awesome!!
Story told by: Lainey
Distance learning started, and we’ve now been MIA! I know you’re used to much more regular updates, but the boys and I are very busy with school. And Mommy seems to be either running around between us or drinking lots of coffee! I’ll get you caught on what we’ve been doing in October (and some of September)!
Okay, there you go! Phew! You’re caught up! It’s been an interesting, different, and fun fall so far!
Story told by: Brody
I’ve been so excited all summer for my first day of kindergarten! That day arrived yesterday! It was distance learning, but I was still excited to get to meet my teacher and classmates online.
My first-day-of-school cereal!
My special jammies that I picked out for the first day.
I just decided that I’d like to be a barber when I grow up.
My very own work station!
Kindergarteners Zoom right away at 8:30, so I got to meet my teacher, Miss Carrier, first thing!
In between my assignments, I did some coloring.
My teacher is in for a treat with lots of these video assignments coming her way.
Miss Carrier sent bubbles in our take-home packets.
Lunch with my siblings!
Mommy is about on maximum overload with managing our schedules, getting us into the right platforms at the correct time, and helping us with assignments. Daddy showed up with the most beautiful flowers for her at lunch time. He’s the best!
Another good friend dropped off coffee. Mommy is so grateful for her support team!
We ended the day doing P.E. I don’t love P.E. as much as Henry does, but I gave it a good try!
I really, really like my teacher! And I hope to start to get to know some kids on our class Zoom calls. Here’s to a strange, but good year of kindergarten!
Story told by: Lainey
Henry and I had our first day of school yesterday! Henry is in first grade and I’m in third grade. (And Brody starts kindergarten in just a few days.) We’re going to be online until it’s safe to return to school, so it was bit of a different day, but we still made the best of it!
Mommy made us little treats that she placed on our works stations for the first morning of school.
We always get to pick out our very own cereal for the first day of school. But this time we went with Daddy to shop for our cereal, and he had no objections to us each getting a GIANT bag of cereal.
We were quite happy with this!
I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up!
To make things fun, Mommy let us pick out new PJs for the first day of school.
Henry wants to be a scientist when he grows up!
We started our day by starting a new read-aloud book. We are loving it so far!!
Mommy created different work stations for us, so at 8:30 we logged on and got ready to go!
Brody stayed busy with some online learning games while we listened to videos from our teacher and did Zoom meetings with our classes.
Mommy’s coffee cup remained full all day as she ran back and forth between all of us.
Henry read this story and thought it was quite hilarious. He said he wished that he could run the school.
Ava is going to a different school this year, but since they don’t start for a few more days, she got to come over to play once all of my schoolwork was done.
Mommy’s good friend, Liz, brightened Mommy’s day with a coffee delivery!
And here are our annual first-day-of-school interviews!
We can do this!!