Jonathan & Lindsey's Family Blog

Kieron celebrated a milestone birthday this year. He turned “double digits” during our little pandemic. I was hopeful things would settle down more in time for his special day, but unfortunately they did not and the stay home order was extended. Fortunately Kieron is a bit of a homebody and all he really wanted to do was open presents and play Fortnite with Avery and his friends. The day also happened to be Mother’s Day this year so there was lots to celebrate. Grammy and Papa came over in the afternoon to visit and wish him a Happy Birthday as well.

At ten, Kieron is sweet, smart, sensitive and strong-willed. He loves cooking, history, reading and riding horses (oh, and playing video games). He doesn’t care for long car rides or writing papers. Kieron is quite content with a couple of close friends and his siblings, to whom he is very loyal. He has a funny sense of humor and loves to joke around. Happy birthday to our darling middle boy. We love you more than you’ll ever know!

Crepes for breakfast

Alexa!

An iPod!

In case you’re wondering what texts between Avery and Kieron look like, here’s a funny screen shot I took during one of my recon missions

Kieron’s class sang him “Happy Birthday” on their Zoom meeting

Eggs ala goldenrod for lunch

Boiled chocolate cake

Last night as a nine year old

Here are (quite) a few pics from April. We started the month off with an indoor scavenger hunt through Compass Outdoor Adventures, located in North Bend. It was fun, but unfortunately they were bombarded with participants which really slowed down phones so we dropped out after about 45 minutes. Here’s the selfie we had to take at the beginning:

We had to take a picture of a family member in a hiding spot

This was reenacting a famous scene, the three monkeys

Avery drew a picture of somewhere he wants to go

Avery’s birthday present from Nana arrived in the mail

A new, big boy suitcase!

Phoebe took the box

Then she was joined by roommates

He approves!

Making a house

I was tucking Layla in one night when Yoshi appeared to be in trouble

He managed to do this!

Another day, another puzzle

Hiking the Deep Creek Trail

You can see Snoqualmie Falls from here

Getting my hair did

Setting up an epic battle

Chalk art

The School District decided to do a boundary change in the midst of a pandemic. It was pretty upsetting.

It’s 60! Get the pool out!

Playing soccer with the dog

Drive-by visit from Clare and Caroline

Love this girl!

This face!

Social distance play date

When the golf course is closed they open the paths to walkers and bikers!

Avery created a Lego version of the Fortnite world

Quarantine find!
  

We got tagged by Ethan and Clare!

Another walk on the golf course. The girls were expert social distancers

Learning to ride!

Quarantine is a great time to finally break out the old Barbie Dreamhouse
 

My puzzler

Home project: pantry shelves!

 

Back yard progress

On the golf course again. The house to the left is being rebuilt after burning down TWICE!
 

April brought more homeschool with it. Here are some pics of what we were up to:

Zoom meetings!

Layla wanted to attend circle time as “Coronation Elsa”

P.E.

Art

Lunch

Layla’s preschool put these signs in our yards.

Checklist

This was part of a teacher appreciation week photo mashup  we did.

We did some Porch Pics in April to commemorate our time in quarantine. I think they turned out really cute!

Easter was more subdued this year than in years past, but it turns out the Easter Bunny does not have to social distance, so it was largely the same (minus the neighborhood egg hunt). We were happy to have sunshine and be together.

Layla, sporting one of my old dresses.

Eggs a ‘la goldenrod for breakfast

And Easter buns

Opening Easter baskets from Nana

We spied the Easter Bunny on our walk/bike ride around the neighborhood

When we got home we found he had visited us while we were away

Training Phoebe

A memorable thing happened Easter evening. Phoebe came around the corner of our yard with a dead bird in her mouth. We got it away from her and Jonathan got a shovel to launch it into the woods…

Buuuut the bird got stuck in a tree just beyond the fence! (You can sort of make him out in the picture a little bit above Layla’s head.) He stayed there for two days! We could even see him from our dinner table. We named him Bernie and the kids watched “Weekend at Bernies” that night.