May came and went so quickly. Another month spent in quarantine due to COVID-19. Our area is starting to open up this week (currently June 8th as I put this together), but our family has still been recommended to remain home as much as possible by our doctor. That being said, we are still trying to find a balance of a family in our home, on our property, and out in public spending time exploring nature together. It's been so much together time. We have treasured this time greatly and will be sad for our family when this little bubble comes to an end.
Here's our look at what we did this month:
So many walks. Lots of outdoor time together.
These two. Holding hands. Be still my heart.
We went all over our area for walks and bike rides together. It's been so fun exploring our area and expanding where we go.
We have also seen nature in action in our own backyard:
Baby birds! Nests and hatching and growing and changing! It's science come to life around here! The kids look forward to this each spring.
The first half of the month we worked hard on finishing up school projects:
Riley cutting out cold foods for his grocery truck assignment
Payton watering her radish seeds experiment. Some seeds received light and some were in the dark. Both plants got water.
We put together a puppet show to go with the 3 Little Bears story
Payton's teacher became flat and made a visit to us. She was invited to every meal and spent many adventures tagging along with our family. It was so fun!
I have come to love Fridays as they are our cleaning days:
I finally get a clean kitchen for a few hours.
We spotted a fox den in town and got to watch babies growing up. It only lasted about a month but we sure loved this time:
So many new renovations and projects going on here!
The time had come for new floors in our house. A project we had looked forward to since the day we moved in, six years ago.
We put our kids to work and all 3 played a role in helping us pull up the old floors to prepare for the new.
I wasn't sure about the color choice when it first started being put in but, in the end, we loved it.
We loved the end result! So much that we decided to go one step further and white wash the fireplace:
Before meets after.
We had an unfortunate incident with our youngest that involved him being pulled out of a seat he was buckled in to. He ended up with a splint.
And then ended up in a cast. It was totally unexpected but we're rolling with it. He had no swelling and has shown very little signs of pain (or slowing down), so it's the best case scenario. Hoping to have the cast off in the month of June.
We also planted a garden.
The kids asked to go fishing and with the extra time, we went.
Riley caught this fish on his first cast. He was totally thrilled.
Payton needed extra patience to catch this little one.
Both kids didn't last long and were glad to have each gotten a fish.
It was also cruise night in town so we drove around to see all the classic cars and wave at those out and about.
Such a beautiful night. Such a beautiful life.
The rest of the time has just been spent on our own property loving life:
Payton on the dirt road behind our house.
With daddy on the tractor
Helping daddy expand the chicken coop
Preparing for our summer pool to get put up
Baseball
Quick photo pose on our walk to the mailbox.
a selfie from a 2 year old.
catching butterflies. It means serious business for them.
Lounging on the ground
Truck driving
Helping us trim trees and plant new trees in our tree line
Such a busy month! And of course, we did so much baking and cooking as well. I am continuing to work hard and making meals our child with food allergies can eat. This month, I made donuts:
I was hoping to get a bunch to the freezer to pull out when needed but these things were gobbled up as quickly as I made them. Maybe next month?!?!
I hope your May went well, too! On to June!
