“Unprecedented”

 

More COVID-19 things that are worth remembering: drive-by birthday parties. 

So. Much. Bike. Riding. It was the best! Gigi and Poppy were so nice to get all of us adults new bikes, and we got new bikes for all the kids (except Hazel). Harvey even learned to ride a “pedal bike”!

Lots of time for exploring once the kids’ school work was done. We found some duck eggs unattended and not in a nest this day, everyone was very concerned.

Waiting in long (socially distanced) lines to get into stores. They limited the number of people in stores at a time, so sometimes you had to wait to even get in. Oh and masks all the time.

Juergens family game night! Thank goodness for technology!

Unprecedented is the word everyone uses to describe these times - and then explain what they’re doing by saying “out of an abundance of caution.” Two phrases I’d be happy to not hear again! 

Easter weekend 2020

 We had a great Easter weekend with family. It was very weird not being able to attend church like we normally would, but having church at home has sure been special. On Saturday we got together with the Juergens crew. We got to swim and Gigi and Poppy spoiled the kids with a fun egg hunt. Sunday we had the Andersen crew over for church and dinner. It was so fun to put Hazel in the same dress Millie wore and compare the two girls. They look a lot alike but also very different! The pics are, again, out of order. I can’t figure out how to fix it!

The Bakers blessed their baby Levi and we got to participate via Zoom. 

A Trip to see the Bluebonnets

March 29: I’d heard about a church out in Chappell Hill that had a beautiful field of wildflowers in the spring. Since we didn’t have long church meetings pulling us away from home, we decided that’d be a perfect day to make the trip out. These pics are out of order but still do the job. I couldn’t resist an opportunity to match the girls and take pics of all the kids!

We walked behind the church and saw the cemetery for a few minutes.

Harvey wasn’t super cooperative on his first try at taking a picture, but before we left he wanted to try again and was much happier!

This was his first attempt. Oh Harvey!

Hazel did NOT want to walk in or touch the flowers! No thank you!

Walking Hazel

 Hazel was our earliest walker! She started around 10 months, really took off at 10.5. She just had to keep up with the big kids I guess!

Most pics of Hazel are at least a little bit blurry - she just doesn’t stop moving and my camera (and I!) can’t keep up with her.

Some other random Hazel happenings, like using her as weight for a leg workout:

Playing under the coffee table outside at Gigi’s:

Looking super cute with her hair combed after a bath:

I just love that proud-of-myself smile.

I don’t get to spy on her asleep as much as I’d like to. This is one of my favorite sights.

Another bike accident

Poor Max had another bike accident! Tyler took Millie and Max for a ride while I bathed Harvey and Hazel. I got a phone call from Tyler, on their way home in our friend’s truck because Max had crashed again. Ironically, this is the same friend that grabbed our bikes the last time Max crashed on his bike! We just need to pay them to be our official bike chaperones or something haha. Anyway, they arrived home and Tyler and I looked at Max’s mouth and decided he should probably go to the urgent care. Tyler took him and I put the other kids to bed. Just a warning that these pics below are a little gory!

Miraculously, Max’s tooth did not go through his lip. The cut was only on the inside. And they were *pretty sure* that the tooth had come out, not gone up in his gums. So they basically sent him home after cleaning him up a bit, didn’t do anything else really.

After we got Max settled at home Tyler went back to the scene of the crash and FOUND the tooth! Pretty crazy. The longest tooth root I’d ever seen. Just shows how not ready it was to come out.

Max was so excited to wake up to a generous gift from the tooth fairy - his first visit ever! And a super swollen lip. Poor guy.

He really couldn’t/didn’t want to eat anything but popsicles for a few days. He got by with that and applesauce pouches. Gigi was so nice to bring him several different kinds of popsicles - his favorite were the fruity ones. Though his inability to really close his mouth made it a very messy business!

Max healed so crazy fast. I told him he was like a Pokémon with healing powers or something. This pic below was taken 4 days after the crash.

And then 2 days after that! Amazing! We’re so grateful that he was protected from serious injury and that his body healed so quickly. He will be toothless for a while, good thing it’s adorable!