April Update!
So it's May - not sure when that happened since it's clearly still March. 😆 The majority of the month was spent outside enjoying the cool-ash weather and our new found biking skills! All three are off of training wheels now (Madison has been for awhile, but the twins just learned last month.) There's a nice bike trail not far from our house so we've visited it a lot and ran into some friends out there as well.
Another first that happened was the girls' first haircut ever! I had been meaning to take them to the salon for weeks and of course didn't get around to it and now everything's closed so I watched a couple tutorials about cutting curly hair and tips in general and gave it a go. Thankfully it's pretty forgiving hair!
We've been having lots of fun in addition to working on school and doing lots of different activities!
- Finally painting the ceramic picture holders the girls made when my mom visited.
- Their final products!
- A Zoom dance party with our friends Ezra and Noah (admits re-arranging the lining room because, #quaratine)
- I had a dentist appointment to get my night guard that finally came in after weeks delayed (apparently I have started grinding at night so it's needed 🙄)
- Coloring for relaxation which didn't work and was actually stressful trying to decide what colors to use #coloringfailure
- Homemade almond/walnut/oat milk lattes
- How Zoey feels about quarantine
- We've been grilling pizza on the bbq for a few weeks now and it's life-changing! Sooooo delicious!
- The final product. Did you just have de-ja-vue?!
- Zoom game night for our good friend Mike's birthday.
- Olivia being silly on Easter.
- We got egged by our neighbors when they hid eggs in our front yard - such a great surprise for the girls!
- My friend Anahi's amazing hummus.
- Our compound did a jungle hunt where lots of neighbors painted, drew, or put out jungle animals and we rode our bikes around the whole compound looking for them.
- Evelyn's solo performance.
- Madi's crazy good yoga moves.
- Delicious homemade scones on the weekend.
- A lego Zoom playdate with Madi's friend.
- Homemade biscuits - first time making them ever!
- And what's the best way to eat biscuits? That's right - good old fashioned {pork} gravy.
- Madi works on a "passion project" each Tuesday for school. It's something the students choose and either build, paint, write, draw, etc. Madi worked hard to make a perler bead unicorn.
- The final product! (See what I did there? 😏)
- Splashing in their mini pool to cool off!
- Madison having an intense story time with her sisters and stuffed animals.
- We have been loving the app Caribu where the girls can play tic-tac-toe with Grandma.
- And also read books together!
- The girls musical theater class dancing!
- CeCe enjoying the weather outside with a quick nap in the playhouse.
- The most delicious Venezuelan dish with chicken and plantains. 🤤
- Catching up on the twins' baby books. They are mostly done, but I needed to write about the holidays in their first year.
- Jason's been planning date nights every Tuesday - he chooses the menu, grocery shops, makes dinner, and I get the night off. Love it!
- We had some intense rainstorms this month and the girls loved playing in the rain!
- And of course biking and scootering in it also 😂
- Our neighbors who play in the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra did a mini concert for the compound and the girls loved hearing songs from Aladdin.
- Evelyn prepared a wonderful tea party for us.
- Another date night success from Jason! (Clearly the quarantine diet is going realllyyyy well.)
It's crazy to think that we have been in this quarantine / homeschool routine for almost 8 weeks now! I feel we are starting to get into a groove, but like everyone else there are different challenges and ups/downs.
We hope that wherever you are things are going well and you are safe and healthy! Happy May!
