January 2018 - Kevin is 6!

104 Months

 Your last bath as a kid. Onto showers now.

Happy 6th Birthday Kevin!!! 

What do you want for dinner? Mommy asked. 

Chinese you said, then laughed, "I don't even know what that is." hahhah

I want sushi. 

 And so we went.  

 You were so excited to try out your new bike, snow didn't slow you down.

The next weekend we had family over to celebrate. 

Grandma Bowman made you an awesome PJ Mask Gecko cake! Way to go Susie!

 Then the next weekend we went to Wisconsin Dells. We got a suite at the Wilderness Lodge.

Post water park reading.

You play very well on your own! 

The weeks award went to both kids. 

Mom and Dad at Moms company party.  

Kevin in his new glasses. You picked them out, inside there is the color green. Your favorite color.

 Doing your homework in the new glasses.

 Over at the Furmaniak's home. Playing with Moms childhood friends kids.

Mommy likes to pluck my unibrow on occasion, I know, funny. 

Even more funny, Nick saw recently and asked, "oh, Dad did you get a splinter there?"

December 2017 - Christmas, Drawings & Singing

103rd Monthly Photo

Some Youtube drawing lessons.

 You chose the planet Uranus because it had a ring around it. You and I paper mached a big balloon. Then had fun spray painting it where you accidentally sprayed my hand. :)

 Kevin's Christmas Room

The family room tree

Christmas countdown calendar.

 Nick's room

We hosted the neighborhood Christmas Crawl where at one point 50 people crammed in our kitchen. 

Kevin Singing at church. You were distracted from seeing yourself on the big screens on the sides.

What he said.

..play with Daddy. 

Helping Mom and Dad make Grandma Polzin's Christmas cookies, only Dads favorites. 

Some more Youtube drawing lessons.

Nicks turn to sing at Church.  

 That moment they ask Santa for completely different things than what they told you.

 Sleeping in the same room = very early risers.

 Christmas Eve Eve at the Aunt Barb and Uncle Jims

Christmas Eve - Elf the Musical

Christmas Eve at the Bowmans 

All he wants for Christmas is his two front teeth, since he lost the other one on Christmas Eve. 

Christmas Day, at our home.  Christmas morning is all on the video camera..in the future the backup hard drives. 

I started the basement project the next day. 

 To revise this area.

For the 3rd year running, the Polzin family hands out 1st place awards to the neighbor who have the best lights. 

You boys and I, drove up to Moms work where along with Mom we took Grandpa Bowman out for his last lunch before he retired, later that day.

Nick you wrote that and Kevin drew the heart.

November 2017 - Jacksonville, Soccer & Uno

102 Monthly Photo

Kevins work of art. 

Kevin, you joined me when I went to go visit Uncle Drew and his family Aunt Mary, Clara and John. 

You hung out with Clara and Lil John a lot and loved every bit of it. 

You and John 

Us at the beach.  

Who doesn't want to stay up late and have ice cream! 

 Back at home Mommy is getting in her hugs. 

 Grandpa Bowman's retirement party. 

We played Uno for the first time as a family on this night.  

 Nick celebrated the end of his 7th season of soccer, 6 with Coach Scott. He scored four out of the five goals for the win. Nick is considering trying out baseball in the spring.

The team - Barcelona. 

Thanks for stepping up and helping me fertilize the grass Nick. I'll spare you the ugly photo, I broke a toe yesterday during a nerf gun battle with Nick. I was dodging a nerf bullet when my legs swung and kicked the kids rocking chair. I thought I stubbed it, so I raked the leaves and mowed the lawn. Perhaps it was my bodies way to stop me from playing in a flag football game later in the day.

A bedtime story read by Mom. 

Tradition of celebrating cousin Dan's birthday on Thanksgiving. 

Ha! I said that you will there to hold up the stockings for the season.  

Great helpers cleaning up all of the leaves after we played in them. 

 Plates we serve to the boys. 

Thursdays are toys in bed day, Nicks collections of 8 toys, they include a notebook, light saber, a ceramic dinosaur and a teenage mutant ninja shield. 

Kev collection of 5 toys...they include a guitar, a balloon and a chain saw.