We're still here! The latest stay at home order ends on May 28th and we've been getting urgent emails from MSU about restarting work in the lab. It doesn't really affect either of us, especially since daycare and summer camp don't seem to be happening yet, but it's a change!
Baba Yaga sent us some wooden turtles and John and Oscar got right down to business. Oscar was very proud of figuring out how to make a heart.
One sunny morning we noticed that John's sparkly fish shirt, a Christmas present from Oscar, made beautiful sparkles on the wall. So everyone spent about an hour messing around with rainbows and sparkles.
I've been making lots of bread - there's no store bread that I love, and making it myself always makes me feel proud. Edie is a proud helper too!
And I figured out how to make my own dry yeast!
To a quantity of liquid yeast, add flour to make a thick batter. Let it rise.
Add cornmeal until it is a stiff batter and let it rise again.
Roll out flat, about 1/8 inch thick, and let it dry
Then I tested if it was actually still alive! Here's a chunk in some warm water
Not yet...
Ta-da! There it goes!
We're keeping it in the freezer like good biologists.
Some nights we play family Uno with Minecraft Uno cards from Gramma. Edie helps by not kicking over the discard pile.
It's hard to get up sometimes when it means disturbing such a cozy cat!
Oscar and Edie have been getting a chance to play together. Here they are making a house of magnets for Lamby.
After so much agonizing, Eric hung up a wire curtain holder for me in the clubhouse and I ordered some bright curtains to help give the room a different feel. It's a similar effect to putting up the tent but a lot less work! And now there's more of a play area on one side and a quiet reading area on the world's largest couch on the other side. So satisfying!
Edie is a devoted helper. Any chance she gets she will help, even if it means touching the dreaded vacuum cleaner!
All the Asterix & Obelix movies are on YouTube, or almost all, and they are big hits with the sleepyheads.
Good night!
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