We made it through week 21 of staying home!
Natalie has been hanging out in her window most mornings when she gets up before Neema arrives. But she doesn’t exactly understand weekends, so sometimes I get to sneak in her room and catch her hanging out in the window. This morning she had her electronics with her to stay entertained while she waited. ;)
It fell out again! Aaaaaaaa! Matt was vacuuming the floor and spotted it before he accidentally sucked it up. I had noticed it looked a little weird, but didn’t pay it much mind. I should have - the balloon had a tiny leak in it and it finally leaked enough to fall right out!
Thankfully we were able to get a new one back in place without having to take her to the ER like the last time it fell out. Unfortunately, it didn’t want to go in easy, so I had to put some lube on it to get it in. Even more unfortunately I used the wrong kind, so I had to pull it back out, wash it off and then try again.
She was not impressed…
We seriously do not get out much. I bought them these masks months ago at this point and there had been no reason to wear them. But we had to run an errand for mom, so I promised them ice cream if they came along. They was quite a bit of complaining about wearing them, but they decided the ice cream was worth it.
They better get used to them though - school is coming again soon…
One of my coworkers (who lives very close by) accidentally ordering 5 bags of apples instead of 5 apples. She asked if we wanted some since there was no way they could eat so many apples. We were also failing to eat the poor apples, so I decided to use them the best way I knew how and made an apple pie! It was a new recipe I tried out that used the boiled cider I bought from King Arthur Flour awhile back. And weirdly enough was baked in a paper bag?
It was amaze-balls, y’all!
Day 1 without our dear Nanny. She was feeling not so great at the end of last week and we told her to go ahead and stay home. I was worried about not having help again, but decided if she was not feeling well, it was better to play it safe. Natalie didn’t seem to mind the change in routine at all!
As a side note, she got jealous of her brother’s new backpack and decided she needed to start carrying around one of her own. Since her Monkey bag is devoted to therapy appointments, I dug out Thomas’ old Cars backpack and she loved it!
It’s only Monday and she’s already taken care of those pesky papers over the window… Sigh…
I guess I need to be able to see her if we are doing group management for a few days?
Took Natalie outside to play even though it’s ridiculously hot. I decided to draw her some of cats with the sidewalk chalk since she used to love them so much. Apparently she has either changed her mind or decided my drawing today wasn’t up to her standards - she covered them both in dirt. :(
Even with my tiny critic destroying my art, I was kinda enjoying drawing with the chalk - it’s been awhile since I’ve been hanging outside to use it. So I went with just sketching out our names across the blocks of the walkway. She seemed happy to run over them if nothing else. ;)
Since it was so hot, I figured she’s enjoy one of her tiny popsicles.
Little girl ready to tackle the day! Disappointed that her brothers are still snoozing away. Don’t worry - she woke them up, she needs them up before she can watch a movie with them. ;)
Decided to run out to get Chick-fil-A for lunch. I asked all of the kiddos if they wanted to join me, but I only got one taker. Doesn’t she look so happy to be going for a drive in the car?? Of course, she had to bring her backpack along too!
Also, don’t judge me on the pjs. It’s hard without her nanny…
When it rains, it pours, right? The upstairs AC decided to go out this morning. I started feeling hot and was all worried I was running a fever, but finally we caught on that the AC was struggling. Matt was doing his MacGyver impersonation and working hard at getting it fixed. But then it was Natalie’s nap time and her room was close to unbearably hot (see Thomas’ expression above). So I pulled out a spare fan and piled up a bunch of our fancy ice balls behind the fan to try and cool the air down a little bit.
Is anyone surprised that Natalie may not have napped?
I ordered a paint by number kit at the beginning of the pandemic and it never came. It finally came though! And I pulled it out to get started on it. Good lord the painting areas are tiny. Lol - I might go blind, but I bet it looks cool. :)
Well since her bestie isn’t her to entertain her, I guess I’ll have to put her to work! She actually seemed pretty excited to be helping clean up her playroom. I sent Neema a photo and she sent back “oh no, my baby!”
So you can tell who the softie is here… ;)
We decided to go for a drive. Not to any particular destination, but just to get out of the house. The kids would not accept “nowhere” as the destination, but I think the drive finally got the best of them and they all fell asleep! It was a minor miracle, getting the youngest to nap these days is next to impossible!
Our nowhere destination did have a city park though and the park had this fun hill! The kids all ran up there and yelled at me to take their picture. It turned out to be a super cute photo of all three of them! You can’t even tell it’s a bazillion degrees outside!
The hill wasn’t quite so vibrant green up close, but the kids got even cuter! Love these cuties to the moon and back! :)