Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Quarantine day 79



The kids’ elementary school sent out a calendar with a math and read/writing activity for each day of the summer which we’ve started this weekend. So today after they timed themselves running through an obstacle course in the backyard to calculate their averages out of five, their other activity was to make lists of what they’d like to do this summer. 

Lexa wants to:
Crochet
Sew a dress from a pattern with me
Grow something
Do arts and crafts 
Bake
Do experiments 
Visit Aunt Sara and Uncle Kenny, Granny and Papa, and Granddad if we’re able to leave quarantine 
Go to a beach
Write a book
Meet Aunt Sara’s dog
Make a rug with the yarn hooking kit from Granny for Christmas two years ago
Learn to sew and knit
Paint 
Do pottery
Teach Hugh to use her Easy Bake oven
Practice Calligraphy
Teach Will to sew felt animals
Go kayaking with Aunt Sara

Will wants to:
Play Minecraft 
Climb trees
Climb mountains
Go hiking
Have fun
Bake with Lexa
Draw pictures
Watch shows
Swim in pools
Ride in a boat
Fly a kite
Go adventuring in a forest
Learn to play the harmonica
Play spies with Lexa
Learn how to do pottery
Learn to Surf
Make brownies with Lexa 
Play with Hugh

Hugh insisted on telling me things he wants to do this summer too. Hugh wants to:
Grow plants
Play reading eggs on the iPad
Play outside
Pick flowers
Draw pictures to give me
Take a nap
Build a robot
Grow his hair long
Learn his ABC’s
Run around in a field 
Practice blowing out candles on birthday cakes
Play princess with me
Dress up in an astronaut suit
Go on a picnic
Have some quiet time
Eat a snack
Paint our house
Make our house beautiful 
Decorate his room
Help me clean the house

I went up and found Timmy in his room as always and asked him too. He wants to:
Play a Lord of the Rings Minecraft mod
Work on his Minecraft mod design ideas
Convince Lexa to start reading the books he’s recommended to her and loaned to her
Finish glueing things to his wooden staff he is making
Try to grow a mushroom in his terrarium jar
Design more dungeons and monsters for his Dungeons and Dragons game
Read more of the Wings of Fire book series and finish the Elminster fantasy series he’s reading
Put up the new bird house
Build things with his broken parts collection
Learn how to fly the remote control helicopter he has
Get Lexa to save up money for her own Laptop
Paint some miniatures
Design an armor set



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