We hope that all of our family and friends are staying healthy and making time to relax! It was a quick week with Ayson home for the week (virtual learning) while Addie went to school. We finally had more than a dusting of snow fall and stick around so Amy went cross country skiing after work on Tuesday! For gym class, Addie's class went sledding :) The cold temps over the weekend kept Amy and the kiddos mostly inside but Adam cut firewood with a neighbor for our wood supply next winter. The kiddos did plenty of bickering this week BUT they also played together well. Both kids love to be vocal (LOUD) and thinking positively, we are fortunate that they are healthy and happy and love to play.
Amy and the kiddos had Monday off for Martin Luther King Jr day and we spent Monday and Tuesday evening reading about his work for equality and human rights. Amy just wishes that kids were old enough to understand Amanda Gorman's Inaugural Poem - truly incredible and inspiring!
We asked the kiddos on Monday evening what we should do next: another puzzle of play a game - we started a new puzzle!
Ayson's class was virtual for the week due to a covid positive child in his class. For social studies and the New France unit, Ayson's assignment was to do a small research project on a French influence to the US/world and present the information on a slide (Google slides) or on a poster board. Ayson chose a poster board as the "presentation technology" was "old" like the inventor he researched: Georges Claude...hahaha.
The finished poster board:
Shadow trying to take a little pouch of Addie's down to the basement. Amy took it away from Shadow before he could put it in the litter box or water bowl (the 2 main locations that he places items)
Addie and Shadow having fun with Cosmo
Too cute!
A picture from our valley looking west from Adam's firewood cutting.
Sigh, the slogan in New York is "New York Tough" BUT sometimes tough is not the appropriate word Amy or Adam would use to describe Ayson...stubborn would be a better choice;) Amy wishes all silly/stubborn choices were so easy to fix!
He had to come in at least three times to warm up - the temperature was ~ 23 degrees.
Making progress on the puzzle!
We are getting there!!!
Tada!!! We have put together 3 complicated puzzles and only losing one piece is not too bad (considering the puzzles sat on the table for a week each while we worked on them :)
Ayson was playing with his hexbug toys and decided he wanted to make his own battery. He has previously made a potato, lemon, and a grape battery and on Sunday he looked up how to make a coin battery: cardboard, penny, vinegar, salt. His battery had a charge similar to what his hexbug requires - too bad he could not connect his battery to the hexbug!
Checking the voltage - success!
Adding another coin to the battery voltaic pile.
Showing Adam his new battery
Meanwhile, Addie was giving Shadow a work out
She had Shadow bouncing off of walls and roofs :)
Hi Shadow! Addie stated that Thunder was not in the mood to play - hahaha.
Adam made homemade chicken wings and baked onion rings for the Sunday afternoon football games.
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