AGE 5, MONTH 10
MAY 21 – JUN 20 (2020)
HOME ENTERTAINMENT
- Movie: Looney Tunes: Back in Action (he likes getting dressed & acting out scenes)
- Todd loves his stuffed animal cats & her talks about wanting a cat
- Eric & I like watching Nick Zentner’s live stream geology talks @ 6pm T-Th and 9am Sat/Sun
- “Kid’s day” was 6/13: we set up our new family Xbox
- Xbox game: Game Beast
- Todd said:
- “Come, on!”
- “It’s your own dang fault”
- he kept using the word “literally” (6/10)
“SCREEN” PLAY
- Favorite game apps: Minecraft (MC), Hello Neighbor (HN)
- Watching RonaldOMG (YouTube) play MC or HN while Todd plays MC or HN
- He likes to pretend he’s making YouTube videos of himself playing video games (imitating RonaldOMG)
- Todd said, “Geez, this is epic” (playing MC- he was finding a lot of things)
OUTSIDE PLAY
- Playing in the sprinklers (5x)
- Outside play / playing on the deck & riding his little trike
- Visiting the resident cat, “Chloe”
FUN ACTIVITIES
- U-pick strawberry picking at Annie’s (5/22)
- Eric & Todd went to the Cashmere pump track & Eastmont park (6/16)
KINDERGARTEN
- Mondays: New packet pick-up & “Pizza Monday” (getting Todd a personal pan pizza, sauce only)
- Tuesdays: meetings with his teacher @ 10AM & small group @ 11AM
- See video below for Todd’s line in the class kindergarten poem. Todd had “G is for great friends…”
- Todd’s last week of school was 6/8 – 6/12
- Kindergarten graduation (6/11) & I got him the Mr. Marvelous book
- Last official day of school was 6/12 – new stuffed kitty from Safeway
- See post, “Kindergarten Graduation 2020“
HIKING
- Red Hill (Cashmere, WA) (5/23) (see post, “Hiking: Red Hill (5/23/20)”
- Leavenworth Ski Hill (4 the Boys trail) (6/7) (see post, “Hiking: Leavenworth Ski Hill (6/07/20)“
- Part way up Castle Rock (6/13); on the way home we found a phone & when we located the owner, she gave us $100!
BIKING
- We biked around our home (10x)
- We biked to St. Joe’s (2x)
- Biking on the loop trail (E. Wenatchee section) & throwing rocks down by the river (2x)
- We biked around Lincoln Rock SP then Todd played at Eastmont park (6/14)
- Elisa- mtb @ Squilchuck 4.46 miles / 4.99 mph (5/25)
- Elisa- mtb @ Squilchuck 6.97 miles / 5.14 mph (6/10)
TRIP TO BEND, OREGON
- We drove to Bend on 6/19 & returned home on 6/23
- See the upcoming post, “Trip to Bend (June 2020)” (coming next month!)
FOOD NOTES
- Todd loves eating raw red pepper now!
- Take-out: Burger King, Chipotle (3x)
SLEEP
- Todd likes to make a different ‘fort’ on his bed each night to sleep under
- He loves the “Mr.” books & we read 2 of them every night; he cracks up to Mr. Wrong
- His before bed ‘game’ is typically playing with his Minecraft Lego scene
- Another game is we both launch Hot Wheels toward each other on a portion of track & then act out ‘slow motion replays’ of them
- Sleepovers in my room (5x)
- On 6/10 he wanted to make some instructional videos like I was doing for my work in the school district
