February Fun 2021

Things started to look up in February! The grandparents and I got fully vaccinated and everyone else got their first dose! Lockdown ended and we started venturing out again. The zoo opened up again and we were able to do our annual Zooentines Day! The kids were excited to go somewhere again and super excited about their animals! Afterwards Dada decided Clarita should get her ears pierced. She was supposed to do it for her seventh birthday but the world shut down. My girl didn't even blink or make a sound; she just sat there and handled it like a pro!

The kids started having "weddings" at our Saturday dinners and they were hilarious. Of course, Clara planned them and Bailey and Emmett were always the bride and groom. We did a Zoom Super Bowl party, and while it wasn't the same, it was still fun! Abuelos came over on the weekends and Emmett helped Fafa and Dada build a treehouse.

Bri made us all pretty and gave Aba her first haircut since pre COVID!

The kids got to be reunited with Olive and Winnie which meant lots of playing after school (since it ended at 10:30 that made for lots of time to play)! There was lots of playing with cousins, and the best was when we took the kids to get passport photos and had Bailey with us. I'm pretty sure the workers thought we had an adopted daughter who we didn't love enough to get a passport!

We managed to get a little skiing in too! I destroyed Clara's wall trying to take the letters from her nursery off the wall and then tried to paint over it with the wrong paint. Even though I a) realized I was ripping the paint off with the letters and b) realized I was painting the wrong color, I kept going. Of course that paint brand went out of business so I can't even fix it without repainting the whole wall...

The kids got to work on their Little Passport monthly subscriptions that Tios got them for Christmas which helped occupy all their free time. I even managed to get my Cricut out to make Valentines and they thought it was pretty fun! They also spent a lot of time making "zoos" with their stuffed animals. This of course included feeding them proper food!

January Fun 2021

January was another month of staying home. We were back in quarantine and spent most of our time at home or at Tios. We generally ate dinner at their house on Tuesdays and at ours Saturdays. Dada continued making a dessert (and sometimes complete meal) from a different country each week and the kids helped. We pulled Clara out of dance since COVID was bad and grandmas were watching the kids. 

Even though we were not very busy, we still managed to have fun. Tia watched the kids during Christmas Break and they managed to destroy Styrofoam packing to make it snow!! We celebrated Aba's birthday with dinner at Tios and cake! Clara had Zoom honor orchestra practice which was actually nice because we didn't have to go anywhere! 

The kids spent the month dressing up, played with their Christmas presents and built all the Legos! Eleanora even came over and "opened" her early birthday present dollhouse! We had a couple warm days and Clara played in the sprinklers at the high school after a "workout."

We were still on lockdown for my 40th birthday, but I had already planned on that happening so I wasn't too sad. I got a run in with Bri, gorged myself on cheesecake Chelsea brought me, and ate dinner we picked up in the car! My staff decorated my office and Clara wrapped my presents in blankets to save the environment. Tia made me cake and Clara ate everyone's leftovers! It was actually a nice day despite the circumstances!