January

 My burnt finger update.  Kaiden and I snuggling after I got off work.  I've been working at Employee Health making calls to give caregivers their positive covid results and complete their investigation.  I recently also started working in our covid vaccine clinic.  Jason put the goggles on me because my eyes water when I'm cutting onion.  His goggle method works.  Connor is growing like crazy.  Kaiden is loosing tons of baby teeth.  Kaiden making play doh deserts.  Jason had an EGD done.  He has the start of peptic ulcers.

 

New Years Day

 New Years day did not start off great for us. I burnt my hand pretty bad taking a roast out of the oven. I didn't touch the pan, but I had foil covering the top and when I pulled it out of the oven the steam shot out by my left hand. I burnt my middle finger pretty bad, which blistered up. The fingers on each side also got burnt some too.  Then Kaiden got a headache and spent part of the day sleeping.  Jason twisted his back in bed and spent the next several days with a heating pad on.  The bottom picture is a sign I made for Connor's room. We call him Stone Cold Connor because sometimes he has no facial expressions and just gives us this blank teenage look. Stone Cold Connor and the Flash Kaiden

New Years Eve

 For New Years Eve we thought about going downtown to look at lights and ice skate at River Front Park, but its too cold! It's been 27-34 degrees F every day. So, instead we enjoyed an evening in watching the Star Wars Mandelorian. We finished season 2. 

Snow

 We received more snow. The boys had fun playing in it. This is the first year that Kaiden has been able to build most or at least a good portion of his Lego sets on his own. Every once in a while he has to ask his big brother (the Lego master) for help. For Christmas every year I ask the boys to draw me a family picture. Kaiden finally drew me a picture. He said the one on the left with all the dots is Connor. The dots are his zits. Poor Connor.. the teenage years are rough. I love the deer in our neighborhood. I'll miss them when we move. They use the cross walks and wonder around town. My parents were sad they didn't have many pictures at their new house in Arizona. So, in addition to the large group of pictures I already sent... I made them a fold out coffee table book with pictures of them and the boys. I'm also sending my dad one of the metal puzzles that Jason and I have had so much fun solving.

Christmas day

 Connor left a note for Santa. He didn't tell us he was going to write Santa a note and just quietly left the note next to Santa's cookies. After reading his responses the boys checked out their gift from Santa and opened their stockings. Santa gave Kaiden a Lego set and Connor a switch game. Connor's favorite stocking gift was some chocolate straws, Harry Potter ornaments and mechanical pencils. Kaiden's favorite was mechanical pencils, electric tooth brush, and bath bombs. I got Jason some ornaments too and a metal puzzle. It's 2 twisted metal pieces that you have to figure out how to unhook them and take them apart and then put them back together again. He spent quiet a bit of time playing with it, but eventually figured it out. I had fun figuring it out as well, so a few days later I went back to the store and bought a few more metal puzzles. I made a big dinner for Christmas, even though it was just the 4 of us again. Connor requested the green bean casserole again, which everyone loves. I made my mom's pea salad, which we love. Jason requested the crab salad again.  I made a turkey again since we're not big ham fans. Plus my work gave me a gift card for a free turkey for Christmas. The boys spent the day playing table tennis, building Lego's and playing Nintendo Switch games.

Christmas Eve

 Christmas Eve at our house consisted mainly of the boys silently putting together their Lego creations and Jason doing his stocks.  He recently took an interest in learning how to trade stocks. He's invested $5K into penny stocks and plays around with trading. I spent the day mainly cooking and making salads for our Christmas dinner.