September 2020

We decided to celebrate getting through the first week of hybrid with a marshmallow roast. It was a nice relaxing way to end a very long week!  I think we will end up liking this hybrid schedule but it is harder to get used to, especially with all the restrictions they have at school. It's hard on the kids but will hopefully pay off in the long run!  Kaylee especially loves fires and wants to be in charge of the whole thing from start to finish.  

Brooklyn lost her first tooth!  And she already has her two adult teeth halfway growing in behind the baby teeth. She hadn't mentioned it being wiggly or anything so I was really surprised that it came out so easily! And she wasn't going to slow down, just a few days later she lost the second one.

We decided to get a zoo pass this year for the first time in years. We figured being on more flexible school schedules would allow us time to get out and we would need somewhere to go when we are sick of the house!  It has already been so wonderful and I'm sure we will get plenty of use out of it.

For Richard's birthday, we decided to work on the scavenger hunt that we had started clear back on my birthday! We went to the Park of Roses and a ton of different spots around Franklin Park. It was fun to have multiple clues in the same big park and it made for a fun morning.  That was one of the times I have loved having flexible learning!  We went in the morning and then Richard had some meetings in the afternoon and the kids did school.  Then we grabbed some dinner and ate at a random pond by the library.  We ended the night by picking up some churro empanadas from a lady in our ward as a surprise birthday treat. They were filled with either Nutella or Dulce de Leche and they were super good!

We were so close to finishing the scavenger hunt that I convinced the family to finish it with me the next day. We got to see the Topiary Park, search for a deer statue by COSI, run across a bridge, and find a few clues to finish it off at the Grange Audobon Insurance Center.  It ended up being a lot of fun! We will probably do another one in the future. 

I thought it would be fun to make rainbow spaghetti after Kristi told me about doing that for a Trolls party she did. The red, green and blue were so bright and fun! The purple didn't spread as well and looked pretty disgusting, it looked a little too much like worms! And I must not have rinsed the noodles well enough because when I added the red sauce, it all mixed together in a very unappetizing brown color. It was hard to get past that to enjoy the taste too much but it was a fun experiment.

Scott introduced us to a new feature on Google that inserted 3D animals into your camera so you can take all kinds of fun pictures with them.  It entertained us for a very long time! 

We finally made it to Hocking Hills! I was worried that we wouldn't get there this year since we didn't make it over the summer but we went on the most perfect day. It was gorgeous and I took way too many pictures of every angle because it is all breath taking!  We went to our two favorite hikes and made it to a new place, Ash Cave. The cave was absolutely enormous and had sand underneath from all the sandstone being eroded.  The girls played there for almost an hour and could have stayed longer if we had let them! It was the best day ever!