Little things January

The kids get a little puff every time they respond to a request with a "Yes ma'am" or "yes sir" or "I'd love to!" or some other positive yes and then follow through. When they fill up the jar, they get some kind of reward. The first time we did a little mason jar and they filled it up really quickly, so we upped the game with a vase. One time that they filled it up we got donuts and they were pretty happy!

You know you're tired when you sleep through a diaper and outfit change.

Poor Millie got sick. After a couple of days I took her in to the doctor, where we learned she had both the flu AND strep. Who knew you could have both of those at once?? Poor thing. So thankful for modern medicine that had her feeling so much better within 12 hours. Also very thankful that no one else got sick! That was a miracle.

Grandma made the kids new hooded towels and the kids love them. Harvey didn't love that I wanted to take a picture and thought he was so funny taking it off over and over.

Sweet little baby profile - sucking her thumb too! 

We thought this street was maybe going to go through to the next neighborhood over, but it looks like we're safe for now. I'm so glad - we love having this little area to play in!

Max requests bubble baths a lot lately. They're not my favorite but I love how happy it makes him! Max saw this picture and thought he looked like a Transformer, which also made him very happy.

Doing some object lesson with light during scripture study. The kids listen so well in the dark for some reason.

Gigi and Poppy got the coolest swingset in their backyard! The day it was set up was very cold but these kids were not going to wait for warmer temps to play. We had so much fun and have lots of times since!

Millie gave me a pedicure. Sweet girl.

Since Millie has an early January birthday, we were invited to the "8 is great" meeting the Primary does with all the kids turning 8 in the next year. Crazy to think this girl will be baptized soon!

Tyler sometimes brings me home leftovers of the yummy stuff he gets at work. Silver lining of busy season! This margherita pizza is amazing.

I love having a little one-on-one time with this cutie when Millie and Max are at school!