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| March 22 |
The kids love to wrestle with Dad, even Miles got in on the fun. Elliott has been watching Lego Ninjago and he has everyone pretend to be Cole, Kai, Jay or Lord Garmadon. While Anthony still had a few meetings this Sunday, it was only about half as much as last week.
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| March 23 |
Monday evening we played Ticket to Ride Junior for our FHE activity. Lauren won a close game.
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| March 24 |
I am so grateful that we finished our basement before we had to "Shelter in Place." We have plenty of room for the kids to spread out and do their own thing, as well as for Elliott to play downstairs while the older kids are doing school work. Elliott has been pretending to be a restaurant chef, organizing our play food and creating a variety of culinary masterpieces. He made his specialty, Fries and Chips just for me.
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| March 25 |
Throughout the school year Elliott's teacher Ms. Amanda had what she called "Wacky Wednesday," where she would prepare a STEM activity for her class. She sent a video of her and her son building volcanoes out of playdough and then using baking soda and vinegar to create the eruption. Will and Lauren wanted to get in on the fun and made some as well. The kids' teachers have been so great about sending supplemental ideas for parents to use now that we are doing school at home.
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| March 26 |
We jumped on the chalk bandwagon and the kids drew with sidewalk chalk on our driveway for awhile Thursday morning. Later in the day we walked to the trail that runs next to the creek on the south side of our neighborhood. Will's friend Porter and his family painted rocks and them placed them along the trail and the kids had fun searching for them. It has been really neat seeing people pulling together and reaching out to one another in creative ways during this strange time.
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| March 27 |
I let each of the kids use their own money to buy a new toy this week from Target. Elliott and Will chose Lego sets I picked up earlier in the week. Lauren ordered a new Our Generation Doll that was delivered Friday morning. She named her "Penny," and anxiously awaited her arrival all week. She made a "Welcome Penny" sign that she hung on the doll bunkbed in her room and had me track the package on my phone each night to see where she was currently located. Lauren spent the better part of the day Friday playing with her dolls and that evening told me that Leah and Penny are her sisters since she doesn't have any in real life.
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| March 28 |
An nice byproduct of having most everything on our calendar cancelled is that we now have lots of time to work on our yard. We have really let our yard go the past few years and, with ample help from my dad, are trying to take it back. Anthony and Will spent hours burning years of accumulated sticks while I worked on pulling vines and raking leaves and sticks. It was hard work, but so very satisfying to get done.
3 comments:
Carrie, thank you so much for sharing these pictures of your family in the time of covid19. It means the world to me, when we are so far away and wondering how everyone is doing but can't do anything to help. I know that everything isn't as fun and peaceful as these pictures, but I appreciate you sharing the fun and wonderful things as the rest of the things will pass and are expected. You are doing such a great job with your kids during this time of quarantine and isolation, as I see they are doing so many creative and fun things. I have no advice to offer or deep thoughts to share, except I love you and your family and am amazed by all you guys are doing to pass the time profitably and creatively and doing things to bring your family closer together. I hope that we can still gather briefly as a family this summer in Utah, and that we can have "cousins camp".
I love how your basement looks! So bright and sunny. Hope you guys are doing well during this weird time!
You should post more basement pics! And I think my girls would love playing OG dolls with Lauren!
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