Today Avery turned 9 years old. Being the strange year that it is, our party happened right here:

A gift in the back seat and TWO items each from Starbucks. Happy Birthday!! And three days later, Hedwig was finished:

This bus always stops at Starbuck’s on the way home! Sophia took this very good selfie. Leo is perfectly framed. Lol – Avery’s eyebrow.

Congratulations Avery! We were assigned socially-distanced locations by family groups who had pre-registered. It took more than one of these ceremonies to accommodate all the 3rd graders at St Ignatius.

Mine this time! #72 …

This is at the end of the Happy Birthday song and the boys are racing to blow out the tiny candle – LOL.

Sophia, Avery and Carson are all in school at home. Sophia does great working in her room. Avery has a desk in the office and wears headphones. Carson is in TK and benefits from some guidance. The morning prayer:

Breaktime:

Superman:

Practicing basic multiplication facts, I’m in charge of the stopwatch:

I guess Cloud Bread is all the rage on TikTok. This time Sophia made a reddish batch.

The texture was airy, the smell was a strong sulphury egg … and that was as far as I got. Why would I taste something that smelled so bad?

Avery, what would your mom and dad say if they saw you standing up there? “They’d probably tell me to get down.” That’s what I thought.

Avery was attacked by a giant crocheted tarantula while visiting the other day.

I crocheted this spider over the past two weeks. The legs, arms and fangs have a wire structure inside so the legs can be bent. Sophia learned how to make a starting loop, chain and single crochet!

Carson really likes the cream cheese & crackers Sophia makes for him.

I told Avery a while back that when I was in 6th grade at Westside Elementary, I was able to ride all the way home from school without hands – about 1 mile, 1 right turn, 1 left turn. He started practicing and today shared how good he’s gotten. He went all the way around the block.

Riding with no hands was always a BIG no-no when I taught Project Ride Smart. Nevertheless, it’s a great skill to have and fun.

Thais and Lenin went out for dinner tonight and the kids came over for a while. We played Hide and Seek repeatedly. Avery mostly did the hiding – he’s pretty inventive about good hiding places and small enough to fit in them. He did ask me how dirty the clothes were in the basket. Uh .. not that dirty, I guess.