Pandemic Chronicles: Week Nine

Week Nine was May 10th-16th

This week started out with Mother's Day! The boys did a fun planting seeds activity with Ms Kim for our children's class that morning.

We finally saw KneKne and Peeps for a little while on our deck. It had been almost two whole months!

The boys decorated some cookies. Then Grady had his class' end of the year celebration. He got the Lion Award for his leadership and beign a helper with the other kids in class. It was such a sweet ending to a sweet year. We are going to miss Ms Miller so much!!

After that, we took a walk, did reading time and then played a game. All my favorite things to do as a family!

For Mother's Day, Griffin made me my own debit card for things for him to do. He didn't really think through the cost versus how much money he gave me... so I have enough for a years worth of laundry at least! haha! But he did some laundry the next day :-)

Grady has been real into "fixing" his mohawk on his own. He does a great job actually! This is the boys first week of summer break... so each morning we started with our summer workbooks, ha! We want something to keep some structure and help them not lose all their skills. If I have to work, we all do... hahahahaha!

Then Mr.Pate put the boys to work in the yard. They did an amazing job and didn't even complain! They spread mulch under all the trees and in the front bed. I was really impressed with them.

They picked out some matching outfits one of the days also. Ha! Too cute.

We have been getting out Mr.Pate's disc golf hole and practicing in the yard. Super fun.

Grady decided to play under the truck because the sun was too hot?? Ha!

Pandemic Chronicles: Week Eight

Week Eight was May 3rd-9th

We started this week with Griffin finishing another Harry Potter and going over 200 AR points! We all had some reading time that afternoon, and then the boys put together their own little "play" for us. It was interesting, haha!

This week was Related Arts week for school. Monday was Library day, and you were supposed to dress up like your favorite book character. Griffin did Harry Potter of course, and Grady did Tim Tebow (see pic at top of him and Dad reading a Tebow book)! haha! They had fun with the activities that day.

We have also been watching Buddy vs Duff 2, and finally got to the Star Wars cake week! They were incredible!

Tuesday was Music Day and the boys loved it but I didn't take any pictures? Wednesday was Field Day! The boys had a blast with that!

Wednesday night we did a Trivia Night for church. That was fun, other than our internet driving us nuts!

Thursday was Art Day! Griffin loved doing a Zoom meeting with his art teacher!

And Friday Griffin had awards day with his class. He was voted Class President and was so excited about it! It was sweet.

Saturday we did a Wave Parade for Ellie for graduating Kindergarten and played!

Pandemic Chronicles: Week Six

Week Six was April 19th-25th

This week started with such a special morning- Grady's first time taking communion! We took communion at home, and the boys did really well treating it special. It was a sweet moment for me to get to share with them, and honestly if we had been at church like normal, I probably would have been frenzied with leading nursery programs and not savored it as much.

We had connect group bible study that afternoon, and then a Zoom birthday party for Jilli! We all got on and sung a rough Happy Birthday to her :-)

This week we got more creative with Grady's schoolwork and did more fun activities like working on classifying by color, shape and size or building different 3D shapes.

We also did a science experiment where we all predicted how long it would take for an ice cube to melt, to discuss solids versus liquids, melting etc. Unfortunately it was a pretty cold day! ha! We still had fun going out and checking on it.

And Griffin passed another Harry Potter AR test!!

The boys built our very own mini-golf course in the living room :-)

We spent some time practicing baseball, and reading outside in the beautiful weather!

Saturday morning we did a Wave Parade for Sadie, and it was huge!! ha!

And we ended the night watching Hook! I had forgotten how cute it was.