We made it through week 3 of staying home!
Cleaning up the pool or pretending you are stocking up a space ship for a long journey? It’s hard to say… ;)
Henry spied his baking book on the shelf and begged to make the banana chocolate chip mini-muffins. And who could resist that face - lol!
We decided to make it a virtual cooking show with Nonni and Aunt Heather. They were very supportive of the baking endeavors - though quite upset they weren’t getting any of the finished goodies. :(
Biking trip and thought it would be fun to bring the frisbee along for extra play time. Except the frisbee ended up stuck in the tree on the first throw. We managed to get it down by chunking water bottles at it, but it took a while and the eldest was despairing of us ever getting it back…
If anyone is wondering how easy it is to work remotely with a toddler, I can assure you that it’s not very easy at all…
Only 3 weeks in and I’m already starting to feel like it’s been too long. I figured others might be struggling, so I tried to write some positivity on our driveway! If nothing else, I felt better after writing it!
Someone was pretty excited to find the spaceship costume! Hasn’t quite figure out how to “blast-off” yet though - when I tried to give her a countdown, she tackled me instead of running off. Even if she’s not a fully functioning space ship, she’s a fully adorable one!
Thomas class zoom meeting always manages to coincide with my team meetings. His kinda looks more fun than mine (and certainly is shorter- lol!).
Are you an eagle eye? Did you notice the stack of tupperware on my desk in the previous photo and wonder why they were there?
This crazy girl is enjoying the fact she isn’t being watched as closely these days and is getting into everything… And for some reason most of it ends up on my desk?
Henry’s got meetings now too! Thankfully the boys haven’t had concurrent meetings - then we would really be doomed.
Henry has maybe had one or two sessions in his “Challenge” class before spring break, but they are continuing even during the virtual schooling. The task this week was to design something on paper, make a supply list and then make it in real life. His dad got involved and made the monster ramp even cooler that what he had drawn. Henry was so excited that he let his brother help decorate it!
The ramp was great for launching their monster trucks! They even lined up the smaller monster trucks to jump over with the bigger ones. It feel sturdy enough that it might even last for a while if they don’t forget to bring it in to keep it out of the rain.
Natalie gets way more play time when her nanny is here, but I am trying to cram in as much fun time as I can once I give up on working for the day. She’s rediscovered her love of play-doh, so that has been a recurring activity for the two of us to share. She has a little bit of trouble pushing the “extruder”, but she sure does love cutting the strings!
But even oven mitts are fun play toys! ;)
Who wore it best?? Lol - I feel like a monochromatic villain. And I was pretty shocked Natalie left it on - I mean not for terribly long, but long enough to get some photos of her wearing it.
Basically we decided that a mask bandanna may not be the best option, but it could work in a pinch!
The recommendation went pretty fast from “stop buying masks!” to “please wear a mask, but not the medical ones!” Since I had some random pieces of fabric from previous projects, I thought I would take a shot at making them. The boys were happy to model them, but did say they smelled funny.
Well hopefully washing them takes care of that…!