Starting December

 Claire

I've noticed her having a lot of fun with all the leaves in the back yard and she comes up with some fun games to play like being mommy and making dinner for me. She has an imagination that is focused on family and making everything around her into families. We received our first Christmas present and were directed to open them early since they are technically decorations that the girls can play with so they don't ruin our nativity scenes. It was a precious homemade set of nativity blocks from their Grandma and Grandpa Bell, and they are constantly all over the floor in our walking path because she likes to set them up or build towers. 

Shay

She has such beautiful hair! We were playing at the park and I was walking behind her just admiring the amazing, natural curls she has going on. Speaking of which, she always has to carry around her water bottle whenever we are at the park like it is her stuffed animal or something. She does drink it every once in a while, but mostly just goes down the slide with it and drops it on the ground. With how much she adventures around the park and walks all over the place even in our back yard I know she is excited about the world. She points at all the animals she sees as we walk to the park and loves to see the squirrels in our back yard.

Chris

We are coming to an end of the 2nd quarter and he has now been doing school half of the year! He reflected back on our time in Rexburg at BYUI and commented on how he misses how easy it used to be compared to now. It is a much more accelerated learning and even though it is all online, the Zoom classes keep him pretty busy 4 days out of the week with his weekends still having some studying here and there. Whenever our bedroom door opens and he comes out on a break or something, the girls love to attack and get as much attention as they can. Claire even gets really sad sometimes when he has to go back to class and has full blown cried once, it even made her mad when I tried to comfort her and I just had to wait for her to calm down. I can't really blame them for loving him so much when he gives them such a fun time when he plays with them!

Crafts

I saw this on fun and super easy way to give a new toy to the girls on Pinterest this week and since I just opened a new butter....it happened. They had a lot of fun when I first put it up and although they sometimes fight over the little puff balls I got out for it, they are able to share most of the time. I'm still working on all the Christmas presents around playing with the girls, cleaning, and cooking. I don't want to post pictures but now that people have them I can post one that I did finished a few weeks ago. I had teasers but now I see them being used by my nieces and nephews :)