January 2021 - Kevin Birthdays and A New Professional Hair Cut for Nick

139th Monthly Photo

Game Night - Dad picked #4, got to choose dinner. 

Happy 9th Birthday!!!!

Building some Christmas presents you received. 

Happy Birthday Cake #1

Playing with more Christmas presents. Science! 

Happy Birthday #2

Yes, you requested Skittles on your Brownies. From Aunt Lisa

Happy Birthday Balloons!!!

Game Night, Dad picked #4 again, I chose dinner. 

Dads indoor cycling app Zwift. It helps me socialize. 

Happy Birthday #3

You have a new drawing pad and are drawing me. 

Dad was blown away to see how good of a drawing you did of me!

Nick getting a big boy hair cut before heading to 6th grade from Mr Giovanni, a long time family friend. And that's where Dad goes. They started school back up for 6th graders for only two days a week. You go Thursday and Friday. You and I also went to get you new shoes...you are a 7.5 now and are into adult sizes. Which means your shoes cost double now. 

Ball-oon. 

Try to keep the mostly deflated balloon off the ground on your side, but try to have it touch the ground on your opponents side. 

December 2020 - Closets, Cooking, Christmas, and toys.

138th Monthly Photo

Don't worry, Mommy also went through your clothes to see what fit. 

Game night!

Dads indoor riding setup. 

Can you spot Sunny? She does not travel well, and gets sick no matter how long the trip. 

Visiting cousins, people that are in our Covid bubble. 

Making cookies. 

You and I built you some closet shelving for you.

An early Christmas present from Mommy showed up for me. 

Bagel Friday!!!

Nick on the left, Kevin on the right. Nick, you didn't realize that they were for display during Christmas. So after you put everything on, you started to eat all of it off. 

Making Christmas cookies with Mommy.

This is the very last time you played with Thomas the Train. I brought it up from the basement before I boxed it up. Next time I open it, it will be for your kids. 

Kevin, you crack me up!

Game Night!!!

Nick, Sunny and Kevin sleepover.

Christmas with the Bowmans and our Covid bubble.

Photo 2. 

Opening presents. 

Making another closet, here we are painting.

That was so much fun, Nick, you and I did it in your room.

2020, the year of garland. 

Dads favorite, a Christmas morning mess. 

Grandpa Polzin brought Tapper over. Sunny didn't like to share though. 

Breakfast. 

Sunny's new bone. Funny we found the knots almost a month later when she brought them out of her hiding space. 

Then again maybe Thomas the train will get played with again after all. Here you are Kevin, playing with your baby toys...for over an hour. 

Let it snow, let it snow.

One day you came with me to help Grandpa Polzin paint 14 door ways. After 3 coats, we called it done the next day. 

New Years eve 

Of course we made it a game night!

That was a lot of things we did this month. 

November 2020 - A whole lot of nothing. Visited Cousins, Trimmed the Tree, Top Wreath Salesman

137 Monthly Photos

A Lego battle took place right outside our bedroom. 

One weekend we headed to the Polzin's for a sleep over. You guys camped outside. 

You and Gracey

Apparently both of you stayed awake in the tent...though you said you weren't tired. 

You have 3 teeth missing right now. 

Trimming the tree. 

Commence the little drummer boy on his horn. 

Here is just one wreath Nick sold for his Troop. He earned the badge TOP Salesman! 

(With some help from me)

Cuddling with Sunny

Making sugar cookies

Game Night! 

Every Friday we draw a number, 1-4. That is the order of who gets to choose their game. We play 4 different games and whomever gets #4 gets to also pick out where we should order dinner. 

I tried something new this year. 

Who can build the tallest tower. Nick won. 

Gingerbread house decorations. All was fun until Nick couldn't wait anymore and ate most of the candy off his. 

Game Night!

Kevin playing with Grandma Polzin's old Christmas town. 

Nick doing what he loves, reading. Here you are on your Kindle. 

That sums up this month, pretty uneventful. Looks like didn't take any photos from Thanksgiving, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Bowmans like we do every year. This time it was just the small family, no other cousins outside Dec and Corm.