Lately

Last week we got out our little swimming pool for the first time! Kasen and Tai even still wanted to swim in it when it was 56 degrees out there. They were both shivering asking for popsicles after. I wish our pool were big enough for me to float in. A nap while floating in a pool sounds super amazing right now.

 

 We've even had a few playdates too! You ask me for a playdate, my answer is YES! Come on over. Before I die of boredom and impatience. And I will feed you popsicles. Humans were created to connect with other humans. We need each other and I have decided that a life you aren't allowed to go live isn't a life worth living at all. I would rather be experiencing it with the risks of harm than living in fear of what could happen. Yay for phase yellow, whatever that means...

I believe the Covid curve has been flattened. Hospitals are now prepared. So wash your hands and let it run it's course because the effect that the shutdown has had on the economy is not worth it.

Even though I'm sure Kyle has loved being the one to do all the Costco shopping lately, being the impulse buyer that he is :) I still hate online shopping as much as ever. I've tried ordering flannel from 3 different Joann stores now and my orders keep getting cancelled because they don't actually have what I'm ordering!!

 I tried ordering a produce basket from a neighborhood co-op last week though, so we got a bunch of fruits and vegetables. Including lemons. So for the first time ever I made hand squeezed, homemade lemonade! And it was pretty darn good.

 

 

We also made a couple salads, some stir fry and portobello mushroom cap pizzas. I learned that gold kiwis are a thing that exist and what jicama is, thanks to the school lunches we've been picking up too. Kyle has had plenty of leftover fruit to freeze dry!

 

 

 Kasen saw a PBS kids activity on TV and insisted that we make paper plate masks. So he colored himself a cheetah and Tai colored a pink giraffe. (Which I thought she wanted to be a cat so I drew whiskers on it.)

And we've still been playing lots of games, (It's interesting to me that games like Uno and Sorry will hold Kasen's attention longer than Tai's but she will finish a puzzle or paint with sticker picture when Kasen quits so fast.)

holding lots of rollie pollies, hanging out on our swing,

 and having fires outside, to use up our camping food, while cursing the fact that there is still a mouse living underneath the wall block in our backyard!

-Kasen still asks, "Shall we...?" and it's the cutest.

-Tai has started saying, "What the freaking heck!" Got that from me. There are worse things though. Both the kids have started telling us not to say "stupid" and Kasen tells Kyle not to say "Balls" or "Son of a B"

-Kasen tells us he wants to be a parent when he is 20 and that he will have 6 babies. Tai still only wants 3.
-Tai thinks the picture of her and Kasen in front of the temple in our room is their wedding! Haha

-Whenever Tai washes herself in the bath with her pink soap she puts one hand on her hip, puts her other fist in the air and says, "Pink man to the rescue!"

-Kasen and Tai both LOVE tomatoes. They eat them better than any other fruit and beg for them whenever they see me cut one.

-Kasen also asks for PB&J everyday and eats them 2 at a time.

-They also both collect rocks. They find them outside and insist it's for their rock collections, which they each have sitting on their window sills.

-I truly love and appreciate that they never bother me in the morning and let me sleep probably 2 hours later than when they wake up.

-My pelvic bone feels like it just may break in half anytime I move and I'm pretty sure my pregnancy heartburn has reached all the way to my tongue.

CHEERS!