Adventures in baby growing!: Quarantine week 3: Baking and school

For the week of 3/30-4/6

This is the week that started getting rough. The weather went from mostly sunny to mostly rainy. Ruby had a cough for three weeks that started right when she got out of school, then I started getting in this week and still have it a little bit a month later! The kids also started having to do a lot of school work. So it has been a little rough running between the two big kids to keep school on track, and having poor Miles running around trying to keep himself occupied. Meanwhile, Andy was working, working, working trying to get everything running smoothly for the Sunday services (8 of them!!), and websites. It was a little chaotic to say the least.

But we did have time to make sourdough english muffin breakfast sandwiches. Yum!!

I started back at teaching with the time change at the beginning of March, but I quickly realized that wasn't feasible with having the kids at home all the time. So I was just teaching on Mondays for a few weeks. One morning while teaching, I heard a little scuffle in the middle of my class. When my classes were done and I was leaving feedback, I heard a huge scuffle and screamed! There was this cute little mouse living in the garage. We trapped it and let it go in a nearby field.

Ruby is so strong! She turned her bed around all by herself, and then they played that they were driving a bus.

Family walk on a rare sunny afternoon.

Cuties.

Ruby made a ramp for science one day.

Our caterpillars all turned into chrysalides. Unfortunately some of them didn't attach to the tops. And three of them ended up not making it. :(

Ruby and I have been reading the Ramona books. Ramona squeezed out an entire tube of toothpaste in one of them, and Ruby kept asking and asking if she could do it. So I finally said she could squeeze out one of the little tubes we get from the dentist. She was elated!

Reid writing a story, and Miles being super bored. Haha

The kids made this fun train tunnel!

Reid had these two very loose teeth for about a month.

Miles has been refusing to nap at nap time lately. He just gets super hyper. But one day he fell asleep on the couch later, and then walked back to his bedroom and laid on Reid's bed like this. Hah!

One of our home community friends had a birthday, so we did a drive-by birthday party!

Our three cuties.

They love each other.

We decided to make fresh pasta! It was really fun and the kids loved it.

It was soooooooo delicious!!

Haha!!!

Yum!!!

He's such a little naughty cutie.

Andy hard at work on Sunday morning.

Entertaining them selves with my pans.

Del and Patty came for a little front yard visit.

Reid's morning zoom class with Mrs. Doughty. He has 9am Zoom calls Monday through Thursday, and two reading groups, plus a one-on-one.

Ruby doing a research project about bottlenose dolphins.

They both have about 3 hours of school work each day. We try to stick to a schedule for it. We get up, eat breakfast, get dressed, then do school from about 7:30-10:30. Then we're done for the day or have one or two more things to do later. It works out ok, they really like getting it all out of the way and being able to play the rest of the day. Or maybe I like it. :)