Living Through the Historic Coronavirus

Wow - I am not sure where to start with this post. I have kept this blog up over the past 11 years so I could document our lives and my kids growing up. This post feels like it is so much more monumental than the past ones. I like to think that my kids and maybe even their kids will look back at this one day to learn about our lives and this moment in time will be especially historic.

Living in California and even San Diego, I feel a bit sheltered from what is going on in other states and countries. We have low numbers, compared to other cities and are pretty well positioned with equipment and space and there is plenty of space for us to spend time outdoors. It has been over a month and is it weird to say we are starting to settle into our new normal? We've been pretty good about trying to maintain a schedule throughout the day, especially on "school days". We've set up work and school stations, getting exercise, eating well and drinking lots (of wine that is!). You'd also think I would have all the time in the world to update the blog but I feel like I have less time that before!

We are juggling trying to work from home and are days seem to be a series of zoom calls so one of us is always on the phone or behind the computer. The kids are getting more and more assignments from their teachers and there was a learning curve to accessing sites, log ins, etc. and then there is Owen. Ha! He has started to refuse a nap and just wants to be the center of attention all day long! Sadie on the other hand is just living the good life! Trying to keep the house clean is virtually impossible!

I have always longed to work from home and/or be a stay at home more and was envious of those moms who got to wear yoga pants all day. There were weeks when I wished my kids weren't in so many sports and I wish Josh didn't travel as much. I feel like I am in some kind of movie because POOF all my dreams came true in an instant! So everyday I remind myself of that and try to enjoy and embrace every moment.

I am going to try and post pictures more often because I have definitely been taking a lot! And the kids are writing in journals everyday so we can all document this unbelievable time.

It would not be a true documentation of this time without a picture of an empty shelve at Vons

We kicked off quarantine with some slime making 

Fort making

Old school tae bo!

Snuggling

Art appreciation at Claremont Square 

Letters to teachers

A hike (before they were all closed!)

A bath

Lots of good dinners. I feel like they have gotten less healthy as we go...

LOTS of scavenger hunts!

Instead of just ticking them off, the kids took pics of what they found :) 

Haircuts!!

Cool dude

Our new normal - zoom calls with friends 

Me and Emmy are working on a paint by numbers. Hopefully we will be done before we can leave the house. Ha!

We are decorating our room with new artwork :)

Our first attempt at school organization. We've improved (more photos to come)

My work station - which has also improved!

Just another school day

tie dye!

our garage has turned into an art studio 

getting creative 

I just hope we can reschedule our NY trip soon...

happy hours with the family!

I guess you can say we are guarantining with the Conkins. Riley and Reese are the only other people we've seen. They ride bikes together everyday and I am pretty sure it is the one thing that is keeping the kids happy. 

We met new friends using Google 3D :)

A tease for the next post ;) 

Owen is Three (+ 10 days)

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind but I couldn't let another day go by without writing about my sweet Owie's 3rd birthday!

I stuck to tradition and took the day off of work so we could spend the day together. We went to the children's museum downtown. He was so excited because Blippi (who he watched on You Tube) goes to lots of museums! And little did we know it would be our last adventure out for a while...

We climbed, explored and hung out until they closed early to disinfect the whole place. He was very spoiled with lots of presents and has had lots to play with over the past week. :)

A few things about our Owie Kazowie:
- He LOVES to snuggle. He will yell "nuggle time!" and makes us all gather around for a group hug or snuggle. It is so damn sweet and is my favorite thing he does.

- He has somehow mixed up his "you", "yours", "you're" "are you" and just says "er" all the time. "Mom, er going for a run?".  "Emmy that is Ers". Its pretty cute.

- He finally he starting to get his colors down. Looks like be may not be color blind after all!

- Without ever meeting her, he loves "Baby Fernie" so much he talks like he's know her for year. "My baby cousin love this".  He even draw pictures of Baby Fernie. It is so sweet.

- His best friend at school is Danny and he talks about him and Miss Dom a lot! Fortunately, Danny lives in our hood and will eventually be going to Spreckels too. Wahoo!

- He may be the only one in the family who actually calls Ryan, Ryan. He loves Ryan :)

- He calls Emmy either "My Emmy" or "Emmys"

- Owen loves to swing in the backyard, ride scooters out front and is getting really good at ping pong! (videos to come)

- He still loves watching Blippi, Elmo and Despicable Me 3 and has added Frozen 1 and 2 to the list

- He loves music and his current favorite song is Memories by Maroon 5. He calls it the guy song. I also caught his singing Good as Hell the other day. Looks like we need to start filtering our music!

He is happy about everything but gets frustrated really easily. He wants to do EVERYTHING Emmy and Ryan does and is funny and full of personalty! So basically he is a perfect 3 year old and I could squeeze him all day long. Happy birthday sweet boy :)

What a weekend!

Lot's going on this past weekend! It all started Thursday night as I packed for the next few days.
- Ryan went to school, then to William's house and then straight to baseball practice.
- Josh was in Orange County and then straight to Ryan's baseball practice
- I went to work, Emmy went to school and Owen to daycare and then I picked them up at lunch to drive up to Rancho Cucamonga for Emmy's gymnastics meet!

I had so much stuff packed, it looked like we were going to be gone for a week! Owen was a trooper through it all and enjoyed all of the attention he received from Emmy's friends ;)

Me and Emmy were up at 5:30a doing hair, we all ate breakfast (in bed!) and were out of the hotel by 7:10a. Emmy did great again! 1st for beam, 2nd for fault, 3rd for bars and 4th all around. Beam has because her best event and she struggles a bit with floor but you can't be good at it all! All that matters is that she is having fun.

We ate lunch and then drove 2 hours back to SD to catch the last half of Ryan's baseball game. He's pitching again and working really hard at it.

After the game, we headed over to his bestest buddy's going away party :( Brodie is moving to Texas and Ryan is super bummer and I am bummer for him. Friday is going to be a sad day for him....

Sunday we actually had no plans. That pretty much never happens anymore. We cleaned up, hung at the park and just enjoyed being together as a family :)

All packed up!

We stayed at the residence inn next to the Ontario airport - fancy. Haha

Braiding hair at 5:30am. 

Seeing this smile makes it all worth it!

This kid. Hahahaha

Beaming up there after getting 1st place on beam :) 

SD United team took second!

Out before we even hit the freeway 

Let's go RYAN!

He isn't always easy but he sure is a trooper on the weekends

A few of Ryan's buddies came to cheer him on - so sweet. 

Brodie's dad was recruited at the head football coach for Lamar University in Texas so we can at least cheer them on from afar. Ryan and Brodie have been in the same class for 2 years and are best buds. He really is going to miss him and his family :(