Reading

Needless to say that kids spend way too much time on their devices during this confinement period. Thank goodness for reading! Alex re-discovered Calvin & Hobbs and you can hear him giggle. Sophie loves her Diary of a Wimpy Kid books.

Chocolate makes everything better (while reading comics)

Journaling

Trampoline

Papa ordered an early birthday present for Sophie. When she heard about the present, Sophie immediately ran to the garage -barefoot- to check it out. She was beyond excited and wanted to put it together right away! The trampoline building party began.

Beautiful (cold) spring day: perfect demo day!

First off, removing the old swing set.

Sophie was all over the assembly of her new trampoline.

Installing springs with Papa.

Let's test this before putting up the walls!

Jumping is awesome!

Falling and laughing!

Flip, just like that!

3 monkeys jumping on the bed trampoline.

Puzzle

Papa is making the best out of the confinement situation by testing his patience on some puzzles. His cousin Heike gave him this puzzle of Bretten, Germany (Oma's home town) a couple of years ago.

Working on every day, piece by piece.

Papa needs his magnifying glass to find his relatives on the picture!

Visitors

Last visitors before the city shuts down... Mark and family came to our house last weekend. The Sunday school hour that Mark was invited to teach was cancelled about 5 mn after he got here. We still enjoyed our weekend together. This is what social distancing looks like in our house.

Sauerklops soup to remember Opa.

Sauerkraut to remember Oma's
90th birthday.

Henry challenging Alex using new Vietnamese chess set.

Curly cousin reunion, oh my!

Johnny teaching Alex & Sophie how to properly do planks.
Who needs toys when you have cousins handy?!?

Board games & puzzle time.

Great to have family visiting!

Spring Break

March 13 - Spring break is here. This may actually last longer than we think with COVID-19...

Sophie got the queen size air mattress out
to play Minecraft comfortably all day...

Alex snuggles with big fuzzy (and hides his phone)...

Vietnamese food rocks on a cold day!

Pho boy, tired of having his picture taken!

Concert

March 9 - 7th grade band concert.

Ready to watch Alex play? Maybe?!?

Trombone group

"Glen Crossing" by Todd Stalter

"Winchester Chronicles" by James Swearingen

Cabin Fever

March 1 - wanting to spend some time in the sunshine.

Time to try one Sophie's new bike.

Almost too windy to fly a kite.

Shooting baskets at school.