Life in a quarantine

Every Tuesday Scott and I run hills and the kids bike.  Avery wanted to look like a cyclist so he thought he should turn his helmet around.

 One of the specials is cooking so Alia made a cake from start to finish by herself.  It was a chocolate cake with butter creme frosting.

 They plan and cook a meal together on Saturday nights.  They decided to make pot stickers from scratch.  They turned out great.

 We built a shed over our garden last year so we made container boxes for the garden this year.

 Peas, lettuce, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes, and strawberries are planted here.  We also have an apple tree, cherry tree, blueberry bushes and raspberries in the yard.

 I get to home-school a cute bear.  It was announced last week that we will be homeschooling the rest of the school year.

 Avery's loving the self-directed learning.

 We made homemade masks from materials in our sewing box.

 We are still working on getting the stumps out from the Fir Trees we took down last summer.

 A blazing fire to help burn the stumps out.

All of the King County trails are closed on the island but we have a few trails close to home that aren't a part of King County.  One of the hikes is down to a beach.  We enjoyed hitting rocks with sticks.

 Maia loves our adventures.

 Off for a bike ride with Maia.

 Always stealing my phone for a selfie.

 We made a trail behind our house to a creek bed and then hiked the bed out to Beall Road.

 The trail was crazy and overgrown in so many areas.  We saw a lot of animal activity because no one is ever down there.

Sneaking through...it was a great hike until the end when Alia stepped on a piece of glass.  Her foot has healed nicely  but it's not something you want to deal with during a pandemic. 

Easter quarantine style

 We blew out eggs this year and used modge podge and magazines to decorate them.

 Avery covered his with a tiger print.

 I like Alia's colors she chose.

 My favorite flower is in bloom!

 The things I got for the kids baskets this year didn't really fit in the baskets so we made a clue scavenger hunt to hide the gifts around.

 Every year we go to a friend's Easter egg hunt.  This year she and her daughter brought the hunt to each family and hid eggs in our yards.  The kids were very excited!

 He still runs around to find the eggs.

We got large bouncers for the trampoline.

Having fun making a birthday video

A new reality for birthdays is celebrating with zoom calls or sending creative birthday videos.  We made a birthday video for Joe Wang's birthday today and had a lot of fun dressing up for it. 

April Fools

I almost didn't do April Fools this year with all that was going on but I realized the laughs in the house will be good for all of us.  Here are the tricks I set up this year.  They haven't discovered them all yet.  To really play a good trick on someone you have to think about their routines and then set jokes up and wait. 

 They head to this spot in the basement for snacks while they are online with friends.  I glued the snacks together in the boxes and individually.

There's been some inside family jokes in the family about John Cena so we put him in some of our picture frames along with The Rock.  Notice John Cena is doing the circle game, that's been fun all morning.

 I had an almost empty toothpaste tube so I filled it with cream cheese.

The kids just pile their underwear in the drawer which made this next trick easy.  I took the pile and sewed one pair to the next.  

 After a long day of homeschooling they eagerly await 3:30 so they can go online to play games with friends.  While they are outside today, I plan on freezing all of the clocks so they say 3:15.  

I messed with their X-box and TV remotes.