Christmas Break!

Snuggles during virtual Christmas Church...

Christmas celebrations with family looked a little different this year. We had a virtual Haug Christmas gift opening on the Sunday evening before Christmas. We did a virtual Christmas game night with the Haug uncles and aunts on Christmas Eve Eve, and the kids had a blast opening gifts with the Caywoods, Uncle Kevin and Tiana, and Grandpop and Grandmom on Christmas day! We are truly blessed with amazing family(And our kids were absolutely spoiled by them all!) We love you guys so much!

I got a new beautiful Christmas tree skirt. I was so excited!











We took an evening to stop at the Festival of Lights! Then we had a fun light ride through our neighborhood afterwards. It was really starting to feel like Christmas! 







We had a wonderful week of break from school... LOTS of playing and pretending...



game nights... AND new game creation. Kieryn and Ronan worked together to create a new Mario and Luigi board game! It was very fun!!





Tyson had fun floor time during out game nights!



We took time on Christmas Eve to make some yummy sugar cookies!



"Someday I will help too..., " said Tyson. He really enjoys just watching us and being in the same space we are in!



There was a brief, kind of (not) quiet dance party on Christmas morning!





There was family lego time after gifts were all opened...



The week was also filled with lots of PJ time and snuggle time!



It was a great Christmas!











We hope your Christmas was as special and as memorable as ours! 

We look forward to the new year and to Alexis's 3rd birthday (in one week)!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our family to yours!

Last week before a break!

Alexis did letter and number review this week...

The big kids finished up week 18 of our Sonlight curriculum.







Tyson has had a lot more awake time. We love his smiles!





We had fun “craft time” this week...







And Tyson is 4 months old! WOW! 





We are excited to celebrate our first Christmas as a family of 8 (including the dogs)! It is sad that we have to continue to keep distance in hopes to keep our family healthy, but we continue to pray that someday real soon we can again have normal family visits, play dates, trips, and shopping! 

Lots of Love in this House

Alexis covered letter L this week!

Alexis started by finding all her lizards. She was excited to find something on her own that started with letter L!

We finished by finding the different leaf and counting ladybug spots...and then holding up the correct fingers. Alexis practiced her finger counting all week.





On Tuesday we had fun singing Mary had a little Lamb!











On Wednesday we did a lion puzzle...



Practiced matching L/l...



And we practiced tracing...



lacing...



For our 1-on-1 time on Wednesday we made some yummy Christmas candy. I had each kiddo help me with a different kind. They loved it and when they weren't helping they were playing. It worked out perfectly!



Turtles...



Hot Chocolate spoons...



peanut clusters...





On Thursday Alexis matched "shape lollipops" to the correct color. She did very well naming the shape too!



It was a fun week! We ended the week with the treat store on Friday. The kids watched a Christmas movie and we went on a Christmas light ride after dinner.