Blessed Beyond Measure: Catchup: January 2021

A2H Week 2021.03 (January 11-17)

Monday, January 11

Avery wore the same shirt as Mrs. Lawler today and he was thrilled! He loved her so much. Just the other day I was asking him about his teacher this year and he was telling me that she was the best teacher ever. Surprised, I said, "even better than Mrs. Lawler?". He looked back at me, shocked and said, "no, Mrs. Lawler was the best best best...I could marry her!" 😳 Sorry Buddy, she's already taken. 😂

Tuesday, January 12

Hazel LOVES her baby and is always taking such good care of her!

Video: Mommy Hazel

Wednesday, January 13

What it looks like when the kids get home from school.

Video: Into the Unknown

Hazel's favorite sing-a-long during these days.

Hazel & Daddy making Brinner

Video: Cooking with Daddy

Friday, January 15

Saturday, January 16

FB Post: When Daddy makes you your very own snowman

#littlemisssunshine #daddysgirl

Video: Daddy Snuggles

Hazel was totally relaxed as Daddy stroked her hair

Sunday, January 17

Video: Belated Birthday

Hazel got a belated birthday gift from Auntie Julie & Co.

FB Post: When your wife (me) wins at scrabble for the first time in MANY years, you check your math! #iwoniwoniwon

Avery's Lego Creation 😝

A2H Week 2021.04 (January 18-24)

Monday, January 18

Tuesday, January 19

Wednesday, January 20

FB Post: I knew this would be the result of virtual learning and was just talking to my mom about it at Christmas. I understand it for extreme winters when school has to be canceled a lot, but in general every kid should be able to enjoy a snow day once in a while. It is one of the few perks of living in the north.

Thursday, January 21

Eric had a field trip to a mustard factory for work.

He brought home 'souvenirs' for the kids 😜

Friday, January 22

FB Post: Rose Boileau: remember when you asked me if Asher would like your old labeler? He spent a good chunk of the morning using mine to label his bedroom.

The results of having a very organized & possibly OCD son...

Coloring with my little man.

Saturday, January 23

Today Hazel got a haircut, her second one ever. It needed to be done to try and even out the lengths and get ride of split ends, but I did tear up a little.

Sunday, January 24

FB Post: So this weekend, this happened... not gonna lie, I almost cried #littlemisssunshine #mybabysgrowingup

Hazel cleaning up Baby. We went through a LOT of wipes during this Mommy-ing Phase.

We went to Sam's Club this afternoon and Hazel fell in love with this playhouse. I wanted so badly to get it for her, but couldn't rationalize the cost or the face that our backyard is a postage stamp. Little did a know that a few months later a neighbor down the street would give us this EXACT SAME playhouse, which was brand-new for FREE!!

Little Miss insists on bringing her purse with her every time we go out! :)

2 Videos: Hazel Being Hazel

FB Post: Eric often says he thinks she may be our weirdest one. I think he may be right

#littlemisssunshine

A2H Week 2021.05 (January 25-31)

Monday, January 25

Tuesday, January 26

Today we got a snowstorm. After the announcement of no actual 'snow days' from KUSD the week prior, this meant that rather than having the day off of school and sending the kids to daycare as we would have done in the past, Eric and I had to work from home for the day so that the boys could participate in virtual school (thank you KUSD). We were both pretty annoyed with this new situation as the school's decision made it harder for us to work and also took a fun day off from the kids. Thankfully though the teachers (who I'm sure were even more annoyed by this change than we were) made the days pretty simple and cut the day a little short telling the kids to go out and play and enjoy the snow...and so we did. In the afternoon, we all bundled up and headed to a nearby hill for some fun in the snow!

The boys enjoyed the snow during their lunch recess.

2 Videos: Snow Much Fun

When school was over, we all headed to the Velodrome to sled.

FB Post: Even with virtual school and the lack of snow day there was snow much fun to be had!

2 Videos: Go!

Thanks for throwing snow in my face big brother!

Video: Snow Angels

Wednesday, January 27

When you forget to bring a bowl to work for your salad.

Friday, January 29

On Friday morning I had an eye appointment and then needed to pick out new glasses. Picking glasses is always hard enough, but picking them during a pandemic proved to be even moreso as I felt guilt grabbing pairs because they had to sanitize each pair I touched and also I was supposed to wear my mask so it was hard to see what I looked like in the glasses. Eventually I removed my mask so that I could see better.

I really liked these red ones, but was afraid that I couldn't really pull them off and that would get sick of them.

I picked these. Of course they were the most expensive pair I tried and also looked almost exactly the same as my last pair. I am so bad with change.

FB Post: What’s more fun than a pandemic?

Pandemic Eyeglass Shopping 

Later that day, I got to enjoy some quiet snuggles with my little miss!💗

FB Post: My heart needed this snuggle today #littlemisssunshine #littlemissbusy

We also worked on a little potty training...9 months later and we haven't made any progress.😓

Even Baby got to give it a try.😝

We ended the day by making cookies!

FB Post: If you could do anything in life and be successful at it, what would it be?? Some days I can’t help but wonder what life would be like if I pursued music or baking...

Pretending to chat with Grandma on FaceTime I'm sure 😜

This made me laugh today.

Saturday, January 30

My Littles. They can be oil & water or best friends within seconds. :)

Dried Pineapple

Attemped to make fruit roll ups with some strawberries that were a bit too ripe. They were OK.

The end result...from the next day. I think maybe I should have strained out the seeds?

Sunday, January 31

Today we had our 2nd snow day of the week, but thankfully this time we didn't have to worry about school and work and could enjoy the winter wonderland.

Video: Snow Blast

This was highly entertaining to watch, but I warned Eric that it is also very dangerous as there could be a projectile in the snow, so he no longer does it.