Beginning of February

Millie and Max spent several weekends creating and playing with paper robots. They made so many and came up with each robot’s powers and abilities. Bonus: they got along so well too!

Millie got to have a play date with Vanessa and Gabby, while Max went to Oliver’s house. Pretty fun to just trade kids with one family!

We went to a park and ran/rode bikes around the lake there. We’d never seen these crazy tire swing trees before, but they were fun!

Poppy and Gigi put a beautiful fire pit in their backyard. We got to go over for a s’mores night and it was awesome! 

The kids were so funny. Harvey declared he didn’t want a marshmallow, just the chocolate and graham cracker. Of course, he said this after roasting a marshmallow! And then Max wanted no chocolate, just marshmallow and graham cracker. 

Hazel got impatient sitting in her high chair and somehow learned to wiggle out of the buckled straps.

Can’t even be mad at her!

Max’s spelling is my favorite. 

A little lunchtime batting practice.

We had some beautiful weather.

One of my things to do this year was to clean off the porch... there was bird poop all over from the birds who try to build a nest on our porch each year. I’m determined to keep them away this year!

Reading on the trampoline because he didn’t want to come inside to do his homework. Also notice how wet his little sweaty head is here!

Millie was showing Max how to find 1 Nephi in the scriptures. It was really sweet.

Thanks to Gigi for the huge box - it was a perfect setting for our family night lesson on Nephi building a ship! And coloring and forts and other stuff too.

Max wanted Poke balls incorporated in his 100th day of school shirt... this is what I found on the internet that I could replicate! The buttons didn’t last but it was sure cute for that day.

We hadn’t played with the Marble Works set in a long time and Harvey thought it was pretty great.

We started doing “special time” with the kids. Everyone gets one night a week where they get to stay up 15-20 minutes later than the other kids and have that time with just Mom (and Dad if he was home). Max chooses to play chess every time. And pretty much wins every time too!