Life Lately

Last Friday I took Caitlyn out to stay at Amarie's, so while we were out there I took Hallee and Wyatt to the aquarium.  We always spend a good amount of time watching the penguins. 

This was the first time we have seen the octopus awake and active.  He was really fun to watch.  Hallee wants to see the sloth so bad.  The sloth was asleep inside a log, but we did finally get to see part of it at least.  We could see his fur and claws, hopefully some day the sloth will be out and we will get to see it!

Last weekend Caitlyn made rice crispy treats with Hallee and Wyatt while Keith and I watched a movie in our room.  I told the kids we were on a date and to pretend we weren't home.  It was a nice break!

Hallee and Wyatt have been playing with Legos a lot lately.  I love seeing them do something besides screens.  Hallee has also been playing with her stuffed animals a lot.

Wyatt has been drawing a lot lately.  I love this one that he did!

Wyatt really wanted to come volunteer at the Food and Care Coalition, so Friday morning he came with us.  He loved it!  He loves things like this where he feels grown up.  Caitlyn and Wyatt served the breakfast and I cleaned tables.  Wyatt loved serving up the trays.  He also got to go around with a cart of donuts and offer them to everyone.  He asked if he can go every week.  Unfortunately, my kids are going to start going to school on Friday in a couple of weeks, so we won't be able to volunteer anymore!  I wish they would have them go full days and keep Fridays, but I am grateful that they are getting more class time!

Friday night Amarie came and stayed at our house.  Hallee and Wyatt loved playing chopped with them. Keith had convention this week, so he was gone until after 10 PM Thursday and Friday and had to go into work for a while Saturday morning.  Poor guy, he was so tired! 

Saturday I forced everyone out of the house.  We needed some sunshine and exercise.  Amarie brought her scooter so we went over to the skate park.  Amarie and Caitlyn were planning on riding their scooters over to the parkway, but they are repaving it or something, because it was blocked off.

Wyatt and Jonah had fun climbing trees.

Keith got home from work while we were there so he met us over there.  Hallee was so happy to see him, she was really missing Keith the last couple of days.

Wyatt found some big pine trees to climb.  He climbed really high!

He scraped up his knees while he was climbing, but he didn't seem to mind.

There is a play ground near the skate park so we went over there for a little while.  The kids all had fun swinging.

There was a park near our old house that had these digging things, I was surprised that the kids remembered.  They were excited to see these and talked about the old park. 

Saturday afternoon we were bored and didn't know what to do.  Jonah was supposed to have a basketball tournament, but it got canceled because the guy who was coaching got Covid and his son played with Jonah's team Thursday night.  It's been really tricky to figure out what our responsibility is because of the possible exposure.  We still aren't sure if Milo (the boy who played with our team) has it or not, I guess we will decide more when we know that for sure.  

Anyway, Wyatt wanted to go on a hike. It was perfect weather for it, but I was feeling tired and lazy so I didn't want to.  I'm glad I decided to do it because it felt great to get out and enjoy the beautiful, sunny day.

We decided to check out Slate Canyon.  At one point we thought we were following a trail, but it was more like rock climbing, so I'm pretty sure we weren't.  It was pretty slippery, but we made it to the top of a big hill and were able to find a path from there.

We had some great views from the top.  

We took a trail back down, but there was a lot of snow and ice on it so that made it almost as tricky as our climb up.  Wyatt loved it and I loved spending time with him!