First day of snowfort build

 

Pond hockey and french braids

As Reed's hair gets longer I am getting better at French braids.

On a very cold and snowy evening we met up with some of our neighborhood hockey friends for some pond hockey. So much fun! I wasn't sure how strictly "legal" pond hockey on the neighborhood lake was but we got a friendly honk from a passing police car so I guess not illegal enough to bust up the party!

 

Reed building a clay action figure in an art set from the Everson museum. 

 

Theo's first drum lesson.

Online learning. The kids do learning from home on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. They go to school in person on Thursday and Friday. On the at-home days there is live virtual content but we pick and choose what to do based on what holds the kids' attention, and they like being able to pick what activities to do when. 

Reed doing a one-on-one virtual class with his regular classroom teacher. She's made time to meet with him for an hour when he's home Monday and Tuesday. Here's his setup in the kitchen with paint can holding the iPad up to the right angle, plus paper and pencil. He loves doing math in the chat box on Teams!

Uncle Jon visited us on the weekend of the Superbowl and bad weather in NYC delayed his trip back so we got to keep him for an extra night! Everyone loves Uncle Jon time.

The snow fort in the backyard just kept getting more and more snow. At one point we had it up to three bricks high (about eye level for Theo and Beckett).

 

A Valentines' Day present from Grandma Joanie was opened and appreciated right away!

Hiking at Clark Reservation.

 

Digging snow tunnels

 

Redneck hot tubs

 

This is the first year for learning instruments at school. Beckett chose to learn clarinet and Theo chose drums. This is Beckett's first lesson, putting his clarinet together.

Beckett and I spent a while filling up plastic tubs on our deck with hot water so the kids could enjoy "redneck hot tubs."