JANUARY

January was non-eventful and crazy month all at the same time.  We are grateful that January is finally over and that we are that much closer to Spring.  Here is our January in reverse...

The kids love playing the Nintendo Switch in January.  Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is a favorite.  Here is a picture of Silas and Millie playing the boxing event.

Seth was offered tickets to the Salt Lake Stars at the Vivint Arena.  We took Phin and Millie to the game and had the best time living the suite life.

 

Millie had a field trip to the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium.  She was so excited...so excited in fact that she was up before 6 AM ready to go.   Phin was quite envious that she was going on her second field trip and he still hasn't had one.  

 

January was very rough in terms of childcare.  Silas and Lou's school closed down twice due to Covid.  They had both been exposed multiple times so Seth and I didn't feel like we could take them to anyone else.  We took turns staying home.  I was very fortunate to be given permission to work from home during some of this craziness.

The kids still love to hold Lou and ask several times a day for snuggles with their little sister.

We tried a new ice cream spot that is a few blocks from our home.  Silas is always a fan of anything chocolate and Millie always goes for the pink flavor.

Millie loves playing on the virtual reality too. 

 

Silas loves Costco muffins...or I should say Costco muffin tops.  

 

 

Silas continues to be our best kiddo at actually playing with toys.  It is fun to see his imagination run wild with his Marvel Superheroes.

 

Due to the high omicron cases, I was also given permission to work a professional development day from home.  I won't lie snuggling little Lou while watching continuing education content made for a pretty great day. 

Phin, Silas and Lou all had known exposures to COVID in January.   Millie had some symptoms around the same time as their exposures so we spent some time getting tested so we could be sure that we weren't exposing any others.  We had multiple tests and fortunately they all came back negative.  Millie ended up having an ear infection and then Silas ended up getting an ear infection too.  We made the best of our wait in lines.  The longest testing line was an hour and a half...the crazy thing is that the next day we went back and drove right up to the front. 

The kids were fascinated with the motorized car at the mall.  They also loved visiting the Lego store.

We completed the Snowman Scavenger Hunt at Farmington Station.  We had a great time walking around and searching for the snowman window clings.

Here are a few of Millie's art pieces.

One last photo of Lou her first week at Childcare.  She was a dream for them the first week and they said they never heard her cry.  There were a few days were she slept almost the entire time.