Staying In

Here are a few pictures from our adventures at home over the past few weeks.

There's a lot of staying home lately.  :)

 Here's Matthew having his screen time

He earns his screen time by doing cleaning jobs with me.

He's so helpful!

 Johnny all ready for church in his high water pants.  :)

 Grant blowing me a kiss...or something like that.

Anna and I compare knee injuries.

She fell down at the park.

I fought the treadmill...and the treadmill won.

The moral is don't try to adjust the volume on your mp3 player while you're running.

 Anna drew a picture of me falling on the treadmill.

I am the tree tipping over in this picture.  She said I was like a big tree falling down.  ;)

There are also clouds with lightning coming out and a house being hit by a tornado and landing on a person.  We listened to part of the Wizard of Oz audiobook recently.  :)

 Here are Grant and John both checking out the toy bar on the bouncy seat.

 Grant shows John how to do tummy time.

 I rearranged the furniture in the front room today.

This is before I cleaned up the toys, but I like the new set up a lot.  :)

 Here's Anna reading a book to Grant.

Anna is so eager to learn to read since Matthew is learning.

She is really good at writing all her letters and sounding out word spellings.

She likes to write letters to people just by sounding out words on her own.

She's very motivated.  :)

 Here is a Valentine she made me

 She wrote it all by herself.  We try to help her, but she likes doing it on her own.

Her Valentine says, "MOME EMALE GUPTTELL" which translates to "Mommy Emily Guptill"

She sometimes spells Guptill right...sometimes not.

 Grant taking care of one of the dollies

 Johnny just relaxing with Grandma and Anna

 And just relaxing and smiling

 He's getting so big!

 And here's our happy Grant

 His fluffy hair grew back

 He likes hanging around with John

 and John likes it too

 Hi John!

 One night we had a little talent show.

All the kids wanted to get up and sing.

First Anna yelled at us and told us not to listen to her.

Then she yelled at us for not listening.  :)

 Grant was very sad 'cause he wanted the OTHER microphone

Anna sort of offered it to him

Poor Grant!