Right at Home

 It doesn't take very long for these guys to make themselves at home.  This was the scene minutes after they arrived on Valentine's Day.

I am glad they feel so at ease here.  

But it is also a good feeling that as soon as they hear their parents coming to pick them up they all make a dash to the front door to meet them.

Valentine's Day

We had Valentine's dinner with these guys while their parents went out to dinner.

Kaiden enjoyed the kid friendly menu of corn dogs, chips, carrot and celery sticks.

Trevin helped peeling the carrots.  When he graduated from Kindergarten he said he wanted to be a cooker when he grew up.  He still has great interest in learning in the kitchen.

Gavin was excited about something that was going on during dinner.

 Rylan stole my corn dog and seemed to be very proud of himself.

We had a great evening.  Love these guys.

Twelve

 

We had a family celebration for Kaiden's 12th birthday the Saturday before.  

We do not know what we will do for our day we spend just with him.  I asked him if he wanted to wait until it was safer in the pandemic or to just spend a day with us at our house playing games or watching movies.  He said both.  😀

 This is Gavin blowing his Bugle snack yelling toot toot.

I have a couple of cute things about him I wanted to write down before I forget them.

At Christmas he would sing "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Hear all the way, What fun in the ride".

He says his name is Gavin Blee.  It is Gavin Lee.

When we were lighting candles for Kaiden's birthday he asked if he could blow one out if he promised not to spit.

Whenever Rylan is really upset and crying alot he will bring him a stuffed animal to cuddle. 

Family and Games

 The Saturday after New Years we all got together for dinner and we played the Pictionary game Trevin got with his Christmas money.  We had such a great time.  We all said we need to do this more often.

Christmas 2020

 We celebrated Christmas at Nathan and Stacy's, eating too much, opening presents.

Gavin playing with Kaiden's binoculars - Kaiden playing with Gavin's top.

We played Crazy Bunco.  Everyone except Gavin and Stacy had to put their gifts back, some of us more than once.

The gift of 2020.  Trevin wasn't too impressed.

Gavin really enjoyed the game and ended up with the most gifts.  I wonder if he would have been so happy if he had to put his gifts back!

Merry Christmas

 A visit to Santa was different this year.  Santa was behind plexiglass and masks were required.