Pandemic Week 4

This was our 4th week of not leaving home other than a run to HEB... well Greg leaves home each day.  His world hasn't changed a lot. But the boys had a much harder week as they have no outside connection and their mom is pretty occupied all day long with work.

Monday night we did take a walk to check on Mimi and Ed.  We stood on the side walk while they stayed on their porch.

This week the boys made a coffee shop...

And pet store...

We saw several more snakes on our walks this week

And the critters are out too.  This was a big scorpion...

Our neighborhood has painted rocks all over and people are hiding them in fun places...

Adam napped again this week.

Our house became a tattoo parlor when Angie was on a 5 hour call one morning...

David would ride by friends houses and take selfies and then send it to them since he can't go say hi in person...

Both of the boys teachers called this week... here is David talking to his teacher.

David did a taste test with Holly to see what treat she likes best... she went for the biggest piece...

One of David's science assignments was to make a paper airplane and measure how far it went.  Then he had to make adjustment and fly again... and then a third time.  Force and motion was the assignment here.

Holly learned how to fetch...

the boys played in the backyard on the sunny days...

Adam helped with dinner and setting the table this week because his social studies assignment was to be a helper at home...

We ordered caterpillars and they came this week.  4 out of 5 seem to have survived.

Holly got a free day at Doggy Day Care which was very helpful as she barks often when Angie is trying to work.

We found painted rocks all week long...

This one was up high in the tree and said HOPE!

The boys found trees to climb and trails to ride...

houses to visit

With lots of JOY along the way!

Here is a little learning from the week -

Adam wrote two stories...

Science was vocabulary this week and how things move...

There was music...

David did some math...

And Adam was questioning as he read this week...

Our neighbors made a 7 hole golf course in a greenbelt in the neighborhood.  It is fun to go down and play at Skimmarron At Coves End.  There is a practice range, fairways, roughs and sand traps.

This is the practice range...

Each hole has a tee box complete with extra tee's...

Each hole is made with the lid of a 5 gallon bucket...

Each hole is measured and marked

Each hole has a laminated flag at the hole.

Another week in the books.

Adam Lost his First Tooth

Adam pulled out his first tooth on Easter Sunday just before dinner.  He was so excited and just beside himself.  At dinner he declared himself a big boy now because he lost a baby tooth.  He also continued to tell David that it didn’t even hurt.
He called his teacher to let her know.  The tooth fairy left him $2 in the rocking chair in his room.  He didn’t want it to get lost under his pillow so he laid out a wash cloth on his rocking chair and laid the tooth on top.

Easter 2020

Easter was different this year.  There were no egg hunts, no special Easter outfits, there was no extra meal prep.  It was simple and slow... but we did take time to remember the greatest reason to celebrate.

Saturday we dyed eggs...

The Easter Bunny came about 4:00 Sunday morning... because the children in this house don't sleep.

They were up at 5:00... 

 They hunted the eggs on the porch about 5:30, but it was pouting. We were under a severe Tornado Watch, which we didn't realize until later.

 Once the weather cleared the bous hunted in the soggy wet yard...

But then by 8:30 the weather cleared and there was a double rainbow.



 The boys watched church with us - Adam had a second breakfast...

 And played his horn with the band...

Holly watched too.

Mimi and Ed came by and brought the boys Easter treats!

The boys made a cake and chose orange Icing.  It was the theme this Easter.

We had a Zoom call with Angie's family.

We took a family walk at dusk.

 

 And Adam lost his first tooth.