March Part 3

The boys are starting to get crazy. They have time to play! They have been dragging their comfortors around making nice little nests everywhere they go. They have also discovered they can run around in their underwear. I try to keep them clothed, but I'm not doing a good job of that! Ha!

Nolan's first rainbow!

Working on his ABCs.

 

I have been working on this jeans quilt for about three years now. Three years. I finally got it all sewn together and clipped the edges. I took it to the laundromat, washed and dried it. I think it turned out pretty good. It's very heavy and sturdy. I would enjoy making another one but with bigger squares! The little squares were quite tedious! 

  

We have found a forest not too far from us. We have been going there about three years now. This was one of our first times this year and they had cut down some trees. We got a beautiful view of the Augustusburg--a fortress in our area. Really pretty!

Planting on the balcony

March Part 2

And the start of home schooling because of Corona. I must admit I was overwhelmed for a while but we got into a routine after about four weeks. Ha! It took me that long. Elliot's teacher sent home school work and we had plenty to do for him. I wanted Nolan to also do "school". I figured it was a good time to work with him more. Letters and numbers for Nolan. He had shown interest in both, but we had never really practiced them. Well, now we had time! We were on lockdown so that meant you were only allowed to leave the house to go to work, grocery shopping and sports but only by yourself. Well, since I was a mom with two little boys, we were doing sports! And every afternoon, I took the boys in the park. The park had never been so full of people doing sports. Police starting making their rounds and telling people to not congregate and meet. I was not supposed to sit on a blanket--I should have been doing sports. Well, I can't throw the frisbee and play soccer the entire time. The policemen were really nice and I had the feeling they were embarrassed to even have to talk to us. We were not loud, no drinking, etc. We got into a routine--school and housework in the morning and sports in the afternoon. 

I did a bubble snake with the boys. Pinterest has always been my lifeline--even more so now. Lots of great ideas and worksheets for Nolan.

Nolan learning his numbers with playdough

He's making progress on writing his name!

The boys cooked for me!!!  Yummy!

First Sunday worshiping online with our church!

Beginning of March

The spring flowers started poking out of the ground! What a wonderful sight! We spent some time in the park not far from us. Corona was slowly making it's way to Germany. I had no idea what would happen and I even got tickets for the summer trip to the States. If only I would have waited two weeks...oh well.

We have been healthy since almost Christmas. Amazing! God has been good to us.

We hung the bird feeder up that we made at Baking & Crafts. Oma has enjoyed having the birds.

My sleeping beauty

Found these at the botanical garden

February

February was a fun month because it was Winter School Break! There was no snow, but we still had fun!

Baking a parakeet cake

One of our highlights was building a Hot Wheel Racetrack! When Elliot started school last August, one man gave Elliot a gift certificate--a wood project of his choice. The man works in a hardware store and enjoys wood projects and building. I thought it was such a cool idea. Anyway, we found this wooden racetrack online and thought it would be a great project! And it was! So much fun to drill, hammer, measure and see it come together!

Starting to paint

Papi took over and that was goooooood!!!

Boys cooked their first meal for me! Papi helped!

Backen & Basteln

Baking and Crafts

We have started a project at church for children during the school breaks. We invite as many children as we know and bake and offer different crafts. This time was amazing--the largest crowd we have ever had. Not only children come to bake and do crafts, the moms come as well and enjoy doing things as well. We had about a total of 30 guests. The building was pretty full. We try to do crafts with things that would be thrown away--egg cartons, milk cartons, toilet paper rolls, etc.

These were the grass sock heads I did in advance to show everyone how it was supposed to turn out.

We made smoothies this time.

Egg carton flowers

Grass sock head table

Sprout caterpillar from egg cartons

Bird house out of milk cartons.

Had Superman and a Sheriff for Fasching

January

 January was pretty uneventful. Nolan had the hand-foot-mouth disease but I didn't get it and we were all very thankful! A new playground opened up near us and we really have enjoyed going to it

Enjoying the balcony on a beautiful day!

We had a kids' sport event at the end of January. A man from church organized it. The boys love going! A lot of pictures were taken, just not many with just my boys. :)