SCENES FROM CONTINUED ISOLATION

We finished our third full week of being housebound. I told Mommy, “it feels like we’re under house arrest.”

As usual, working on my many Planet Coaster parks was a top priority.

I also rode rides at my in-home amusement park.

Our potato sprouted!

We chopped it in half and put it in that pot of dirt.

We continued to make progress on our puzzle. It’s only fitting that it’s actually a Christmas puzzle, because that’s probably when it will be finished.

I drew, colored, and named birds.

Daddy and I drew a whole bunch of amusement parks.

And we saw a pretty rainbow outside our window at sunset. What will next week bring???

Mar 27

SCENES FROM LOCKDOWN

This week, we were ordered to stay home ALL THE TIME. (Except to go get food. That’s Daddy’s job.)

Grandma and Grandpa sent me this book about Curious George and a roller coaster. Thank you, Grandma and Grandpa!

We did a lot of staring out the window. But if you look out long enough, you get to see…

…DINOSAURS!

I made a lot of LEGO roller coaster cars and demonstrated the layout of their imaginary track.

I loved drawing and naming cats with this fun drawing sheet.

Here’s this week’s puzzle update. I found a lot of pieces!

I got my LEGO Life magazine in the mail at the perfect time.

And Nana and Papa sent me a comic book drawing kit. Thank you, Nana and Papa!

We were going to start our deck garden, but can’t go get any seeds or plants. So we’re improvising. This is an organic potato and we set it on the windowsill to sprout. Updates coming next week…

Mar 20

SCENES FROM SOCIAL DISTANCING

School was ordered to close last week and won’t be opening back up for a while. Lucky for me, I was made for social distancing.

A few days before spring, we had a second day of fresh snow.

My most important order of business has been working on my amusement parks in Planet Coaster.

Mommy has a jigsaw puzzle she started working on. I’m helping out when I can.

I also made a constellation tube. This one is Leo.

This is what I see when I look inside.

I did an experiment where I drew a design with lemon juice and let it dry so it was invisible.

Then we warmed it up over the stove and – voila! – my design appeared.

We go outside everyday to check the mail…

…and run back down the hill to seclusion once again.

Mar 13

CORONAVIRUS + SNOW

On this Friday the 13th, we welcomed school closures due to coronavirus, plus a little snow to make it even weirder.

Mar 12

BYE, TOOTH

I’m home sick, and it’s a good thing I didn’t go to school because it was time to say goodbye to baby tooth #4.

Mar 10

PANDA AND THE MOON

I had my first kindergarten music performance called “Panda and the Moon.” I played a monkey!

My music teacher, Mrs. Kelly, recorded the performance, so I will have a link for that eventually.

Here we are performing the Monkey Rap: “Nana banana buh-buh-banana!”

Here is the cast! The monkeys, peacocks, moon, panda, and fish.

Feb 29

J. WILLY’S

For Leap Day, we went out to dinner in the historic Willamette neighborhood of West Linn. Daddy and I played Tic-Tac-Toe while we waited for our food.

I chose the restaurant, J. Willy’s, because they had pizza on the kid’s menu. It was really good pizza!

Feb 28

BIRD NEST

Mommy’s friend, Aliah, had an abandoned bird nest in her yard. She heard that I’ve been interested in seeing pictures of bird nests lately, so she gave this one to me. It’s pretty cool, huh?