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Month: April 2020

30 Apr

April 30, 2020

Someone was thoroughly enjoying his quesadilla for lunch today.

30 Apr

April 30, 2020

Wade always has time for a hug with Kaitlyn.

30 Apr

April 30, 2020

These three are constantly building couch forts or just dogpiling on each other.

29 Apr

April 29, 2020

He ventures outside when requested and seems to enjoy it, but I wouldn’t say he loves basketball or being outside.

29 Apr

April 29, 2020

Kaitlyn chose a GoNoodle for her movement break today. Ben wanted to participate too. As soon as Ben saw the iPad he ran to get the headphones – note that they aren’t actually plugged in.

29 Apr

April 29, 2020

Today they played cars.

28 Apr

COVID Haircuts

Today I attempted real haircuts for the boys. I really just attempted to barely trim the boys, but everybody is starting to look shaggy and it doesn’t appear haircuts are going to be normal again anytime soon. In general, the haircut went about as well as the pictures I asked Alex to take. (Here’s hoping the world opens back up soon.)

28 Apr

April 28, 2020

Behold the rare sight of these two working together on a Lego project.

27 Apr

Latest Attempt

After Kaitlyn’s latest haircut session with her dolls, I kept worrying she would attempt to cut her own hair again. I have talked to her several times. I thought I had hidden all of the scissors. Obviously those weren’t working. It was time for a new strategy. She and I got on Amazon and we picked out a doll with long hair that was bought just for haircutting. I told her she could cut all she wanted. When the doll had no hair then we would buy her a new doll. Fingers crossed that this works…

27 Apr

April 27, 2020

Family movie.

26 Apr

Fixer-Upper

Our old house didn’t sell immediately and we were anxious to move last summer. We moved some stuff and furniture, but left the majority of our things for a few weeks knowing that a house sells better when it is staged. Then we moved it all and left the house on the market. The house still didn’t sell. We didn’t officially pull our house off the market with the pandemic but we knew no one would be looking. We used this time to do some of the upgrades we had been hoping to avoid. We painted, put in new carpet, and upgraded the fireplace area. We also decided to remove the large green hutch in the kitchen area to make the room seem bigger. During all of this we got a new listing agent and decided to try again knowing we would be one of the few houses on the market because we weren’t worried about having people walk through our house, which is thankfully empty.

26 Apr

April 26, 2020

The boys.

26 Apr

April 26, 2020

Sunday morning silliness.

25 Apr

Finally – The Weekend

We were all ready for a break. Today we did chores, played outside, and finally got around to some chores at our old house too.

25 Apr

April 25, 2020

These guys spent the day cleaning up the leaves at our old house. Here’s hoping it sells this spring.

25 Apr

April 25, 2020

Kaitlyn spent the afternoon talking to her friend across the street with the street between them. At one point, that involved them both getting umbrellas.

25 Apr

April 25, 2020

Throughout the day, I gather books from all over the downstairs and put them in this basket at the backdoor. Ben loves to sit and go through them. His favorite are the ones with pictures.

24 Apr

Life With Ben

Keeping up with Ben while keeping everyone else on track during school hours is proving to be very challenging. My favorite time of day is nap time. Today, I walked into the kitchen to find HUGE purple circles all over the bench cushions in our window seat. There were no markers in site so I am hoping and praying they were made with washable marker. I have no doubt which child decided to redecorate for me.

Update: I washed the covers and all the marker came out! Crisis averted.

24 Apr

April 24, 2020

Alex’s choice in clothing is getting wackier and wackier.

24 Apr

April 24, 2020

Daddy did the reading tonight about Dr. Seuss.

24 Apr

April 24, 2020

All of this schoolwork is rubbing off on Ben. He wants to practice his writing.

23 Apr

Horse Anyone?

Alex convinced Teague to play basketball and before long Ben was trying to join in too.

23 Apr

April 23, 2020

Now the question is whether he is really doing schoolwork or just watching YouTube.

23 Apr

April 23, 2020

It seems like everyone everywhere has made loaves and loaves of Banana Bread this quarantine. I will on occasion bake it, but I can’t stand to eat it. In our house, we make chocolate chip pumpkin bread!

23 Apr

April 23, 2020

Today is a Lego day.

22 Apr

Best Big Brother

Teague is an awesome big brother. He seems to have so much patience with his little siblings and is always happy to provide some entertainment.

22 Apr

April 22, 2020

Teague is rather enjoying the lazy remote school life.

22 Apr

April 22, 2020

Super Kaitlyn to the rescue.

22 Apr

April 22, 2020

Alex was nice enough to take a few minutes with Ben on his iPad.

21 Apr

Anxious Puppy

Poor Pepper. She loves having her people around all the time but she can’t stand it when anybody is outside without her. Alex is outside playing basketball in the rain and she is running from window to window in a frenzy.

21 Apr

April 21, 2020

Shooting hoops in the rain.

21 Apr

April 21, 2020

Everybody loves when Daddy is reading bedtime books.

20 Apr

Monday

It’s Monday. We had the normal craziness and a little birthday celebration thrown in too.

20 Apr

April 20, 2020

Happy Birthday to me!

19 Apr

April 19, 2020

Lego cities – day in and day out.

19 Apr

Here We Go Again

My heart sank when I sat down to my computer and saw the green lines on my screen. The last time this happened, Wade was able to fix my computer by baking some components. However, I’m always afraid of lost data and being without a computer for a long period of time. This time it was a quicker fix and I am once again thankful for a husband who can fix most anything.

19 Apr

April 19, 2020

I was taking pictures of the kids playing outside from inside the house. Alex decided to get up close and personal with the window.

19 Apr

April 19, 2020

Teague always has some kind of delay tactic when it comes to showering. I am not sure the picture shows it clearly, but these pajamas are laid out very neatly as if a person is inside or a flat-lay is being taken.

19 Apr

April 19, 2020

Lego cities – day in and day out.

18 Apr

Spring Snowstorm

In this crazy year that is 2020, we not only got April snow, we got 5 inches! As luck would have it, I had just put all our snow gear away last week. I dug it out and we went outside to play. Alex was agreeable to joining us for a little snow play.

18 Apr

April 18, 2020

Random snow – in APRIL!

17 Apr

Houdini Reveals His Tricks

I will be the first to admit there has been less supervision of Ben in the chaos of the last few weeks. He is into everything all the time – but mostly because I am trying to keep the other three on track with everything they are doing. Wade is busy figuring out a new job with a new company combined with working fully from home.

At some point I realized Ben was getting his iPad at playing at will. I put it up on a high shelf and thought that would take care of the matter. Today I walked in and Ben was again playing his iPad. It took some strategic questioning to figure out if he got the iPad or if one of his siblings got it for him. Once I determined Ben got the iPad, I asked him to show me exactly how he got it. Below is his demonstration.

17 Apr

April 17, 2020

Movie night.

17 Apr

April 17, 2020

Movie night.

16 Apr

Mischief Makers

These kiddos are taking their forced “recess” time pretty well. Pictures show they are actually having fun.

16 Apr

April 16, 2020

These two spent the afternoon racing.

16 Apr

April 16, 2020

Kaitlyn seems to prefer dress up clothes for class these days, but no one minds. An upside to remote learning.

16 Apr

April 16, 2020

Just a boy playing in a drawer.

15 Apr

A New Pet?

We eat a lot of rice in our house. I buy a large bag of Jasmine rice at our warehouse store and then transfer it to a large storage container that I keep in the bottom of my pantry. Of course I ran out when supplies are still a little tricky to get. I bought the only type of Jasmine rice I could find in a large bag (not the bag I normally buy). I left it near the pantry door for a few days because I am lazy.

Kaitlyn came up to me rather shyly today and asked me if we were getting a new pet. I was really confused and told her no, but asked her why she thought that. She walked me over to the bag of rice and pointed to it. She thought we were getting a baby elephant…

15 Apr

April 15, 2020

These two, just going for a walk.

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