Birthdays!!!!

We've had a busy week!  The kids all had Well-Child checkups this week they are healthy and growing well!  

I finally got my hair cut - My mom's stylist was doing an outdoor house call to cut and color her hair and cut my dad's hair and my mom asked if I wanted to come too!   My hair is now back to manageable lengths!  

Anna is starting to have sectionals at the high school and Evelyn got to go in and try out instruments to see what she wanted to play for middle school band.  Her first choice was flute and she was able to make sounds on the flute and they were in need of flute players, so she was very excited and has been trying to play Eileen's flute ever since.  I was also very happy to see how careful the school was being with cleaning and masks and such.  

The school district still seems to be undecided about what school will look like next school year.  We got a survey this week about next school year just asking if we were more likely to choose an online option or attending the school.  They still haven't given information about sports and electives though.  I guess we'll see!  

This week was also a big birthday week for us!  On Wednesday, David turned 3 years old!  If you ask him, he will still tell you he is 2.  He loved his birthday and he loved his Paw Patrol birthday cake and his Paw Patrol blanket and pillow from mom and dad and his cute clothes and swimsuit from Grandma and Grandpa Jones!  

Aaron and Evelyn just couldn't stop themselves from helping him open his presents.  And sign that he might struggle with some aspect of it had them with their hands all over it doing it for him.  LOL  They are so excited and helpful - funny thing is that they knew what he was getting - at least the stuff from us - they helped tie the blanket fringe! 

Friday was Anna's 14th birthday!  I think she is excited to be 14 and she was excited by her presents.  She got a cute sweater from Grandma and Grandpa Jones, and from us she got some doll stuff, a Real Book - a jazz fake book, and a gem art. 

David is such a little bundle of personality!  He is so funny and goofy.  Dan caught him posing on the stairs and took some pictures.  He thought it was hilarious! 

James tried his hand this morning at building a card castle - he got a second floor on there too, but we didn't get a picture before it was knocked down.  He was pretty proud of it though!  

David has been wanting to play chess lately - except of course, he has no idea how to play, but he loves putting pieces on the board and knocking them off.  He and daddy played a fun game together.  He had a great time!  

This week was our turn to go to church, and Anna was asked to speak and I was asked to play the organ.  I spent some time this week practicing, cleaning up and wearing a mask.  I think it mostly went well.  Anna's talk was great and it was wonderful to be back at church again - even if we didn't really get to socialize and it was shorter than usual.  David didn't get much of a  nap today - after he had been down for less than an hour, we had a big thunder storm that lasted about 30 min - and David hates thunder.  After the first big clap of thunder - he screamed and started crying and came down for snuggles... and of course didn't go back to bed.  :)