Category: Eleanor

This week we celebrated Monkey’s birthday with a celebratory doughnut. We actually had lots of treats this week, including cinnamon rolls and crescent rolls. We also moved Henry’s desk area down into the Lego room, so that he would have some more privacy, which I think he really appreciated. We also figured out how to…

This week we had some unknown animal visit our backyard and destroy all five balls that were in the backyard. How strange! Henry was really bummed out because he had just developed a game using all of those balls – and Dad was left wondering what type of creature did the damage? I wish we…

We had a fun evening Birthday celebration for Grandma – a five way Skype call with Grandma, Grandpa, Great Grandma, Aunt and Uncle B, and the Martins. We sang happy birthday and chatted a bit, then played a few rounds of Codenames. It was a little hard to play over Skype, but we made it…

Eleanor and Henry celebrated Easter this week quarantine style. We did manage to have a small egg hunt, plus we had a fabulous coffee cake breakfast courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa! We also did our Popcorn Ball decorating – we had been saving these for Easter. Dad made a bunny, Henry made a cow and…

Spring break has arrived, but unfortunately we are having a coronacation instead of a fun ski trip. We have been keeping busy with lots of puzzles and games, plus a fair amount of Fortnite and Minecraft. We brought out the hammock in the back yard for some outdoor time, in addition to lots of walks…

We broke out the lawn games this week to entertain ourselves outdoors in addition to our indoor puzzling and gaming. The kids have been keeping busy with work from their teachers and zoom conferences. We rigged up a document camera out of some cardboard boxes and my phone, and with that we were able to…

Well, we made it through our first week of home quarantine. The kids have been getting assignments from their teachers via email – Eleanor has had a full day of work most days, and Henry has had a bit less. There was lots of puzzling and a fair amount of game playing (board and video).…

We started off this week with a field trip with Eleanor’s class to the mission at San Juan Capistrano. Her class is doing a project on all the missions, so this fit right in. Both Mom and Dad got to go along, and really enjoyed the trip. The kids even got to make their own…

Baseball season gets into full swing this week, with one game during the week and another game on the weekend. Henry has been enjoying it so far – he gets to play lots of different positions, including catcher! He had a couple of hits and made it all the way around the bases to score…