Our calendar week starts off with Sunday. We do church at home. I print programs the night before for the kids to color on while J gives a short talk. We sing songs, take the sacrament, and practice sharing our testimonies. After, I give a primary lesson and try to teach children's songs to Hulk and Little Viking Girl while J cleans up the sacrament and puts Teddy Bear down for a nap. Then it's lunch and nap time for our Viking. When she gets up we will then start video conferencing our parents and siblings or go outside. It's probably my favorite day of the week.
During the week my mornings are taken up with homeschooling Hulk and Viking Girl. Sometimes Hulk will have a Zoom conference with his class. His school sends out an online material packet that I then translate into Spanish before giving to Hulk (because I believe life should be hard). Half of the week computer games are added to his learning curriculum, the other half of the week I try to add special activities. The special we are currently working on relates around volcanoes. We kind of stumbled into it. I had planned to teach him about acids and bases (just the basics *badum tsss*) but that started a conversation of how you could mix vinegar and baking soda to make your own volcano. So of course he wanted to make a volcano. We then made a volcano using a yogurt cup, a paper plate, and a newspaper that J had brought home from his office, flour, and water. He was very involved in the process and after it dried he painted it himself. We then went outside and I let the kids use up the last of my vinegar. They had a blast. Since we spent the last two weeks doing that I figure this week we'll learn how actual volcanos work (magma, lava, tectonic plates, all that jazz).
In the afternoons, rain or shine, I have the kids spend time outside. We are blessed with a big yard. What we do each day varies, we will: walk around the neighborhood, play golf in the backyard, shoot bow and arrows, play with water, swing, or I will try and get some yard work done which then prompts Hulk and Viking Girl to come up with a list of complaints and needs ranging from "he's looking at me" to "push me in the swing". I have started calling my grandparents twice a week. I like to think it helps them because they are living on their own and much more isolated and it's good for me because then I get to socialize with someone outside of my house. I also try to call my sister-in-law once a week. She's fluent in Spanish and it gives me and the kids an opportunity to practice (she is really sweet to let us practice on her).
Little Viking Girl hates that we have kept her home and has taken to living in her swimsuit.
Teddy Bear's top four teeth are coming in ALL AT THE SAME TIME. But he's been super great about it; aside from one day when he had a low fever he has not been fussy at all. He has also learned how to pull himself to a standing position. Which I think is incredible considering he doesn't know how to properly crawl. (He can crawl but it's this belly-flop type crawl that's all upper body and very little leg movement.)
Because Teddy can pull himself up, J and Hulk lowered the bottom of Teddy's crib so that he won't fall out.
We have found a good rhythm and are handling the quarantine life. I do miss taking the kids places (Viking Girl misses going places) and Hulk misses his friends but we have adapted well.
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