We have had to be pretty creative in the last 2 months to make life more exciting than adventures in the backyard and around the block. Here's some of what we've been up to:
Back in March, Logan went through a phase of being obsessed with sink or float. This was awesome because it was an activity to keep him busy but was also a science experiment totally falling under the category of school work! And some added outside time in the cold moth (now its so easy to be outside!).
Themes were our thing to start quarantine and then we have since fallen off that bandwagon. But this was our Chilean themed night. This one didn't involve the kids since they don't eat food loaded with wine. The shrimp soup base is entirely white wine and some garlic and the mushroom rice had red wine in the base. Paired with chilean wine and pisco sour which we had when looking at our chile pictures.
Mexican night! I made mexi dip and tacos and we had margarita and corona.
Mexican night included the kids and since it was freezing outside, we set the pool up in the living room with the balls from the old ball pit. They got their bathing suits on and loved it! Mexican night can include the kids since Logan is obsessed with tacos.
When I asked Logan if he missed school he said "yah". And when I asked what he missed about school he said "the marble toys". There are lots of things I cant fix with this situation but I could fix this!! So naturally this was the best $60 spent to make him no longer miss one thing about school. He loves this marble run... but strongly dislikes when his sister breaks it.
Yah. TV. Disney's freebies during this time have caused an addiction to the Disney channel and now we're going to have to pay full price when they remove the free subsription!
When colouring in the colouring book gets old, we take out a huge sheet of drawing paper from the easel and draw on the kitchen floor.
Logan started liking crafts and art activities this quarantine! Painting is both their favourites I would say. They painted so many rocks that they collected in the forest and placed them back in the forest.
Our neighbourood forest is filled with painted rocks. Some with positive messages. Lots of kids have painted and hung birdhouses in the forest too. Its a really cute community feel in our forest!
Another cold day, looking for something different for the kids so the pool made a reappearance and this time with some added floaties!
We haven't done too much takeout, but we have done sushi and pizza a couple times. And the Burger Factory which was amazing - I had a funnel cake for Mothers day!
Sushi 168 was amazing - the first time they gave free masks and the second time free soup!
The May 2-4 weekend was the weekend provincial parks opened for day use. We got right in with no day fee and it was actually pretty quiet! We hiked down to the beach and had a picnic. The kids loved it!
Leah was a little unsure of getting close to the waves but wanted to throw rocks in the water.
And Logan wanted to line his all up!
The fire ban was lifted on May 2-4 weekend but the evenings were so cold, I didnt want to go outside! So we waited for the next weekend and had our first fire of the season. It seems Logan likes less and less as time goes on and this year smores consists of eating marshmallows (untoasted) and chocolate straight from the package. Leah just eats the chocolate and won't eat the spidey dog. Logan will eat the spidey dog if it has no black on it! My easy going babes.
Wine and fire. A beautifully dangerous situation for me!
We also hit up the garden centre May 2-4 weekend to complete our planters. The kids loved planting!
One of Logan's school activities that he LOVED was going for a forest walk, collecting some nature treasures and making a nature wand. He even wrote "we are making nature wands" and was so proud. He actually loves doing the school activities at home!
The warm weather is back and we are so happy over here. I miss our friends but we have so much fun playing in our backyard, going for bike rides, scooter rides and walks and runs that quarantine isn't too bad now!
And I have been doing outdoor workouts in the backyard which has been way better than the basement.
We opened our quarantine bubble slightly and has my sister over for her birthday... water balloon fights and bbq!
And conservation areas are back open so we hit up Coldstream and had such a great day. We saw the hugest turtle and had a picnic and the kids were actually energetic the whole time!
Documentation of the closure sign and my poor baby picking dandelions in front of the playground. She didn't even try to go on surprisingly!
When we don't set up the pool, Leah makes her own pool in the water table.
And we got a new bigger sized pool this year which is awesome because we can actually float in it! It was a treat from Gran. Aleksys been doing her groceries every couple weeks and she's been buying the kids (and us) treats like crazy! Logan has loved playing in this pool - he's kind of outgrown the trustie elephant pool (but definitely got as much use as possible out of it!).
Our ice cream stand is open! Open trunk ice cream parties are now our thing. Somehow Leahs cotton candy ice cream came off her white shirt and Logan is currently obsessed with chocolate. This stand is much more reasonable then the $30 at merlamae we spent yesterday!
We have been casually checking out new builds in our subdivision and nearby for a while now but it got real over quarantine! We are moving to Lucan in this dreamy home that we are custom designing on a massive lot. Closing is end of January but could be earlier depending on time it takes. It is non-existent to build for the price we are on the lot we are in the city and Lucan is going to be super cute!
