Built our house...Now our family: September Update

What's the reason for this face? It's a I just learned how to ride my bike with no training wheels face!

Garrett's little buddy, Wyatt, from across the street is also 4 and is quite the bike rider. Garrett really wants to be 5, so I told him that he had to learn to ride a bike without training wheels before he turned 5. Well that only took him one night...

It was pretty fun to watch Garrett and Wyatt play because Garrett was better at baseball, but was still very encouraging to Wyatt when they played together. And Wyatt was a way better bike rider, but was very encouraging to Garrett when he learned to ride without training wheels.

And for memories sake, this was our family picture after Bryant learned how to ride a bike without training wheels.

I still don't have my videos uploading yet, so all you get is a picture of Garrett learning.

A friendly game of football in the back yard.

Garrett was funny - he just ran and yelled hut, hut, hike repeatedly so that he could keep running after he got tagged without stopping.

Bryant had homework for his first day of school. He had to bring 3 things about himself that fit inside a paper lunch bag. He brought one of his sports medals and then the next two pictures. Bella had to wear his medals in the picture because he couldn't bring all of them and couldn't figure out which one to choose.

And then his two very large goldfish (Colby and Cheddar - named after his favorite cheeses).

Garrett had to bring a family picture for his show and tell. Since Bryant didn't want to be in the "Garrett only needs two wheels on his bike" picture, we had to take another family picture. And they wanted our bamboo plant in the picture too.

We had a get together with our old neighbors and Garrett was fake sleeping on the way home. He just got Grandpa Jack's old Packers wallet and was toting it around with him everywhere he went and wanted to pay with his fake credit card. At one point Bryant helped him empty out his piggy bank and put all the money in his wallet and Garrett was carrying around quite a bit of cash, including a $100 bill. So, we had to put the money back in his piggy bank before we had a very upset little kid.

The Dollar Store had MSU football helmets, so of course Garrett needed one

Garrett likes to flex his muscles after he drinks milk to show how strong he gets. And when he starts to flex, he holds his breath and his face turns bright red, which makes him think he's even stronger. He told us one night that he couldn't have more milk because he was too strong already.

And just like that, summer was over and the school year started. Garrett is in his last year of pre-school and is really excited to start Kindergarten next year.

Bryant started 3rd grade and is doing the blended approach with COVID. So he goes in person on Monday and Tuesday and remote Wednesday through Friday.

Of course, we had to do a mask picture too.

The boys both got new bike helmets and loved to cruise up and down the street.

We promised the boys that they could go to Target and pick out a special toy once our house sold. We all were super excited to have the paperwork signed and Garrett picked out a Batman remote control car and Bryant picked out a Lego set.

Garrett's t-ball pictures came in...I think he was a little nervous for the camera.

New masks

Getting so good on his bike that he can ride with a ring pop on his hand

Bryant like to cruise around the block on the battery powered scooter.

Building and trying to keep himself entertained on remote learning days. He got really into building forts around the house and at one point, we had probably 6 different forts going at once.

There's a bike path from our house to Spring Meadow Lake that is probably about 1.5 miles one way, so the boys rode their bikes and we explored the lake for a bit.

And played at the playground equipment on the way home

And later that night headed over to the park behind our house for more fun.

Trav's cousin got married at a small wedding outside of Livingston, so we actually got the boys dressed up a little

We stayed at an AirBnB with Grandpa Ed and Grandma Betty and it turns out the owner was an old classmate of theirs. We got to explore around the property the next morning before we headed home.