Random photos from the last few months of 2021

Well, here are some random goodies.  The kids' favorite things to take pictures of are their pets.  We had plenty of good time that I can't justify as separate blog posts so here's a bunch. 

Ozzi decided he should be a driver's ed student with Kayda.  He got up on the chair like this by himself.  He has NEVER sat on one before.  It looked pretty funny. 

Buddy is the most chill pet ever.  He was falling asleep on Carson's back while we were playing board games.  Carson even started crawling around and Buddy just sat there. 

Dillon hates hugs and snuggles.  Every now and then I still manage to trap him though. He pretends to hate it but secretly I think he likes the attention. He's just a teenager. 

One evening we came home to this.  The boys cleared off the table and played ping pong on it using plates and a bouncy ball. They also tried Carson's mini volleyball.

I stuck Buddy in Dillon's hood while we played board games.  He didn't like how he had to hold his head so he wanted Buddy out.  Buddy was content though. 

Carson was given access to a math game called prodigy for school.  He logged on unprompted and played for a couple of hours at home. 

Kayda made this timeline for a class project.  

We had a door decorating contest at school.  Kayda and a few of my students worked with me to decorate.  We had a really good time...and even did the walls near the door.  It was obviously a Grinch theme.  There were several of them, but that's what the kids wanted to do. 

For the month of December we decided to watch a Christmas movie a day until Christmas.  Daddy and Kayda are the only ones that managed it.  One was playing every day but sometimes the boys would stay the night at a friend's house and some days I just had to sleep.  My body has been crashing hard and when I hit the wall that's it for me.    We watched some of the "classics" ..."A Christmas Story", "It's a Wonderful Life", Disney remake of "A Christmas Carol" and "Nightmare Before Christmas" .  We hated them.  Absolutely awful.  We watched a lot of our favorites though "Klaus", "Arthur Christmas", "Christmas Chronicles", the "Santa Claus" series and of course the "Prep and Landing" series.  We also spent a couple days watching cheesy Christmas movies, playing board games and doing other activities.  

 

Off to the Movies!

We took the kids to see their first big screen movie this evening. We went to see Alvin and the Chipmunks 2. Both kids were pretty good. When we got in the theater Kayda kept talking about the big screen and was very excited for the movie. She did exceptionally well, she ended up standing most of the time but we were seated right behind the handicap spots so it was just a railing in front of us. She would dance to the music and get all excited when something good happened. We had to remind her a couple of times that we should try to be quiet so we don't bother other people. Dillon did well for the first hour. After that his attention started to wander to the lights along the walkway. We had to take him out twice but only for a few minutes. Considering he's just barely two he did great. When we left Kayda wanted to "go see Chipmunk again".