Weeks 7 & 8: Celebrations

February has been all over the place this year. In addition to Valentine's Day and President's Day excitement we've had a classmate birthday party almost every single week, Zach's cub scout pack Blue & Gold banquet, snow days, a day off for flooding (!), and now WV teachers are on strike since the 22nd. We have come to expect the unexpected lately, as much as we can anyway.

Us at Ikea. That's always fun.

Excited about her Ring Pop.

Fourth graders. He felt grown up that this was a Friday night birthday party and not a weekend afternoon one.

It was the first time for all of us to attend this function that honors the fifth graders moving to boy scouts. Only one more year as a cub for Zach's den!

Awesome new containers for flour, sugar, etc. Sometimes it's the little things.

Zach and I are bonding over the Harry Potter movies while working on the Harry Potter puzzle during these teacher strike days.

It's still all about the Minecraft. Though Gabe does enjoy the games where you have to bounce a ball/cube/etc over and around obstacles without crashing. He's surprisingly good at those. He also beat Super Mario Odyssey on the Switch the other day.

Steaks came out wonderfully in a new cast iron pan.

Classmate party for Charlotte at a bouncy house place.

Here are a couple of funny Charlotte videos. She has been going to day care through the teacher strike, but when she's here she doesn't stop talking or singing to herself.