Isaac is writing a report on electricity. He wanted a picture of a magnet coil, and I remembered that a long time ago I had brought one home. I looked on the blog for a picture, but could only find a video:
Ben got his first vaccine shot today (Moderna)! It was a rather unexpected call yesterday, but I'm very, very excited that he has the first one.
Well, we've made the decision to pull back activities again. Michigan COVID numbers are spiking Ottawa is averaging over well 50 cases per 7days (roughly equal to 25 per 100,000) and that was the number we arbitrarily set several weeks ago that let us resume some activities.
To be fair, the only thing that changes this time is that we'll be doing karate on-line again. I hadn't started going back to the grocery store, the kids are still in virtual school (not that we could change that), we're still watching church from home, and we're only doing take-out from restaurants. I'll still be going to work, Ben will still be going to work, and we'll need babysitters. (Side note: I realized that I didn't write about going back to karate...I had been curious to know how long the dip lasted. Based on Ottawa county numbers it looks like five to seven weeks, but the data I'm looking at doesn't show the 7day average. This is a depressingly short period of time.)
I'm optimistic that this spike won't be as bad, but I've also read that it is mainly hitting the 10-19 age bracket. They didn't have many cases in prior spikes and most can't get the vaccine yet, so I also feel like it could be worse than I think. Luckily it's also starting to warm up, so some activities may move outside and I feel much more comfortable with that.
Today it was Joshua's loveys' birthdays. It was Grey Bear's 50th and everyone elses' 1st.
We also packed some bags for Kids' Food Basket.
After we got home Joshua was a bit sad, but willing to snuggle on my lap as a rock. Normally he just hides in his room, so I'm hoping this is a new thing we can do.
We had games with our grad school friends!
This was my favorite T-shirt competition.
We also booked a vacation with them for this summer!! Woo-hoo!!
Isaac finally pulled out some gummy Legos and made lots of things with them. Before I realized it he had sent about six pictures to his teacher, which was a bit excessive.
Joshua was excited to find a piece of gold in his Leprechaun trap. (It was a coin from an arcade that I had sitting around.) He made a pot of gold to hide it in.
