Another full day! The craziest part of this is that I think we have a pretty good balance between mom-led activities and boys entertain themselves free play. X & A play really well together and also play very well independently. And yet, I am still busy nonstop. Besides all of the activities of our day, I also washed, folded and put away 2 loads of laundry, emptied all the garbage cans, did the dishes multiple times, made breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as a batch of breakfast burritos for later this week. We cleaned up toys several times. And by the end of the day, the house is still messier than I’d like it and there will be a full load of laundry tomorrow. I’m envious of all the people quarantining without children- what are you doing with yourselves?!
We were outside first thing this morning, “adventuring” as we call it. We live in the middle of the city, but there are a lot of cool areas in our neighborhood with trees and large open spaces to run. We’re finding every nook and cranny near our house to explore. We found a really fun area behind our alley. There was a great tree that became our secret lair. Xander was Dash and Augustus was Baby Jack Jack from the Incredibles and we spent about 25 minutes running up and down the hill, battling bad guys.
Before we went inside, the boys jammed out to some music in my van. They love to play in cars and I’m pretty sure within a few years, they will be trying to drive away.
The boys played while I made lunch and then Xander and I made pizzas for dinner. Augustus was tired and not interested, so he read books in his bed while we pretended we were chefs.
Rest time was pretty short today and then we were back outside. We played in the yard for a while and then headed back to the secret lair. They rolled down (and then ran back up) the hill about 10 times. They found good sticks and battled more bad guys.
We came inside and had a snack and then we painted for a short while.
After painting, we baked cookies.
By that time, it was only 3pm and I was EXHAUSTED. So I got out my computer and let them play by themselves. The entertained themselves very well for a full hour.
By 4, I was even more tired, but we went outside AGAIN. They wanted to walk back to the secret lair, but I didn’t have it in me. They played outside for an hour before I convinced them to come in and relax.
