Christo's First Baptism Day

 

Christo Learning

 

This floaty was Fisher's years ago, from Take, but we've held on to it and it's somewhat handy for the little guys. Fisher liked it but Edward hated it. Christo was somewhere in the middle.

Swim Lessons

 

With the city pool shut down, Bobbins and fellow moms organized swim lessons at our house, which worked out pretty good.

Summer 2020 List

 

Some Christo Shots

 

Porch Concert at Friends

 Based on the success of our event, our friends hosted Vinyl Station on their front porch. Bobbins had a grand time chatting everyone up in the front yard.

Tower Garden

Bobbins found one of these online, from someone associated to St. Mary's, and decided to get it. They're not cheap but they do produce a lot of greens for you, fresh & organic. We've had some great lettuce & kale. The green beans have been delicious, although too small in number. We did a watermelon. It is fun to watch the produce grow.

Some of Bobbins' COVID Memes

 

Homeschool Lunches

Since the kids' school was closed, they did their schoolwork at home with us. Owen's class used Google classroom, but the girls' teachers just sent home worksheets, assignments, and textbooks. I was home many of the weeks and worked mostly with Owen. We found a decent rhythm after the first couple weeks. Bobbins made the kids still wear their uniforms. She also eased the burden by collecting the free lunches at the public schools, which were distributing them each morning for pick-up. There was a lot of sugar and junk, and A LOT of milk, but it was "free." This is Owen eating one of the Chinese food lunches.

Christo's Birthday

 

You can see his distinct way of crawling.

Porch Concert

 To help our friend Matthew, who makes a living off music, we had him over to our front porch for a fund-raising concert. He basically lost his livelihood with the lockdown. This was a fun way to help him out and provide some much-needed socialization. It was pretty cool to have a rockstar playing live at our front door. It was pretty warm, but it's Arizona, what you gonna do.

New Legs for the Fire Station Model

Another lockdown project was making new "legs," or posts, for the fire station model to sit on. There were only two before, and we decided with all the boys around, we better stabilize it better, so I made two more out of concrete pillar forms. Here the boys are helping me paint them black.

MM's Birthday

 She had quite they day, even though it was a "school day." The best part was the parade (link below) of friends and classmates who came all the way to our house to fete her. That was probably one of the only good things out of the panic, and was unique. Bobbins made a fancy cake for us to eat at home.

YouTube video of the parade.

New Dishwasher

 This is our second new machine. Thanks to Grandma Jay for buying it for us. Poppy and I installed it ourselves. One of my first lockdown projects.

The outlet was already like that when I took the old one out.

First Rally at the Capitol

 Our first "protest" was before this, driving around honking against the lockdown. This was the first rally Bobbins and her folks went at the State Capitol.

Chalk Cross and DM Sunday Mass Read-through

 

This pic was at the end of our Divine Mercy Mass read-through. I usually got the privilege of corralling Christo during our at-home Masses.

Easter Egg Hunt

 Only four hunters this year. I'm sure Christo will be going full guns next year. Margaret got to help hide them.

Easter Picture

 Even though the Church was closed, we got dressed up (as we did every Sunday) and read through the Mass at home, making a spiritual communion.