Home Again!

Elijah wasted no time getting reacquainted with his cars.

(notice how they are carefully lined up all around the edges of the rug?)

Remember how Elijah was so sick with a high fever while we were travelling? Well, guess who started feeling kinda crappy a few days after we got home? Jonny Blood. Before he headed to bishopric meeting the next morning, he figured he should take a Covid test just in case. Well...

Positive!

No bishopric meeting for Jonny!

Based off the sheer number of small red-headed children on my lap,

I would say that several of them were also not feeling well:

The day after Jonny's test...

A positive Covid test for Aaron!

He wasn't nearly as excited as Jon.

Probably because he's a germaphobe and paranoid about Covid overall.

But both of them had light cases and no one else got it (although Elijah was probably Patient Zero).

So we did a lot of hanging out around the house:

Babies in boxes:

Police Officer Elijah was around to maintain order:

Mow Mow kept begging to be let inside:

(I swear this stupid thing was more work than a dog while we were gone.

So many times the neighbors had to go "unstick" him. Sigh.)

No photo, but a fun illustration of the difference between Aaron & Elise! 

They were playing some game on the stairs that they had made up 

that involved sliding down the stairs. 

Aaron: "Hold on. I need to add more safety features."

Elise: "Nope. Going down!"

Yep. That's Aaron and Elise in a single exchange. 

The Elsa bike is too small for Miss Elise:

Time to move on to the Kirsten bike 

(next-door-neighbor handed it down to Catherine years ago):

How Catherine spent her summer:

Torturing lanternflies and recording their deaths.

For science. 

(It has a record of lanternfly deaths, with the phrase "fun in a bottle."

She would trap them in an empty water bottle and then throw it all around).

Aaron made his own bow and arrow:

Elise went on a date to Amazing Glaze with Mom:

Working on her heart box:

Aaron & Sam got to play at Kilioh'u's house (with a pool and a giant tub of water beads):

It is GOOD to be home!!