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May 30

SCENES FROM BUILDING CENTRAL

I am still doing school. Can you believe it??

I wrote words in white crayon and painted over them to reveal…magic words!

I also built a race car track and recorded their distances using different variables. This was my first attempt, but it didn’t work out. (Too fragile.)

I went back to the drawing board and came up with this one. It worked great!

I also started building LEGO creations while standing on this ladder (aka The Puyallup Rollback, a ride in my indoor amusement park).

And we went on walks, of course.

It was fitting that we should find this ladybug on one of our walks, because we were studying ladybugs in school!

Apr 25

SCENES FROM DANDELION FARMING

The early part of the week was sunny and warm, so we took walks along the path by our house.

We came across this cool little creation someone made.

One of my favorite flowers is the dandelion!

I love taking their seeds and planting them nearby.

Actually, the whole town is in bloom right now.

By mid-week, it was cold and damp, so I played inside on my homemade roller coaster.

And did some windowsill reading.

But I eventually went out again and made some chalk drawings.

Puzzle update: We did it! We finished!

Okay…two pieces are missing. We got 99.8% of the way there, though. Not bad, huh?

Corn cob update: It’s taking over.

Apr 18

SCENES FROM “DISTANCE LEARNING FOR ALL”

This past week, my school started “Distance Learning For All,” which meant I actually had to do school work. All of my teachers posted lessons and assignments on Google Classroom.

We got to upload a picture of ourselves for our Google Classroom. I instead opted to make a Memoji on Mommy’s phone and used this as my avatar:

Here is my work about hibernators:

I also did some math work using my LEGO roller coaster cars…

…and read from one of the books Grandma sent me. (Thanks, Grandma!)

My PE teacher gave us several options to choose from. I decided to do the “40 Mile Challenge.” So Mommy and I went on a daily walk and logged my distance. I walked over 3 miles last week! I’ll keep counting until I reach 40 miles.

Outside of school, I watered the plants with my water gun…

…and built a new indoor amusement park ride.

Mommy also taught me how to play checkers.

Puzzle update: We’re getting close! Do you think we’ll finish it this week?

Garden update: We planted some individual corn sprouts, but we’re still keeping this cob growing as a science experiment.

Apr 11

SCENES FROM THE NEW NORMAL

Here we are, another week at home, with no end in sight. So we played some music…

…and just kinda collapsed on stuff.

I also practiced skateboarding in the kitchen.

The neighbors probably got used to seeing me make the mail run in my pajamas.

Another day, another pair of pajamas.

I drew lots and lots of pictures.

Daddy and I drew amusement parks together and made tons of them in the last week. I’ll post my favorites some day.

I also liked to climb on things.

Garden update: We thought all of our snap pea babies died in the snow, but one little guy prevailed!

We also soaked this dried up corn cob we got from a friend a couple years ago. It began to sprout, so we’ll put that in the deck container garden next week.

Apr 4

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 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.