Day 3 - Sloths and a Bike Race

Wednesday 3/18/2020

Status report:

WA State Confirmed COVID-19 cases: 1187 (+175)
WA State Confirmed COVID-19 deaths: 66 (+14)
US Confirmed COVID-19 cases: 7697 (+1397)

US Confirmed COVI-19 deaths: 141 (+33)

Today I woke up to multiple texts on my phone at 7 am (I know, that's not very early, but if I can't sleep in because life is cancelled, then what's the point?). The texts were from my Utah family members comparing notes on their 5.7 earthquake that morning! My family all felt it, but it wasn't bad enough to cause any of them any damage. It did knock Angel Moroni's trumpet out of his arms though! (On the SLC Temple).

I also woke up to Trump calling COVID-19 "the Chinese Virus." Of course he did. I shouldn't expect him to be a decent human being. His track record should have predicted this.

Here's my facebook post with my thoughts on the matter:

I also read today that 1) if we do not quarantine until there is a vaccine, it is likely that 2.2 million Americans will die over the space of 3 months; and that 2) the minimum time needed to test and distribute the vaccine is 18 months.

Our school day
Today was a good day.

For our morning school work today, we played a board game. The kids chose Watch Yo' Mouth. It was hilarious.

She as really good at this game.

She had no idea what we were doing, but she was a good sport.

Betty didn't get the point of the game, but she did spontaneously sing her current favorite primary song: Book of Mormon Stories. I'll try to upload the video later.

The kids did their morning work without complaint. They are really enjoying their math worksheets and their project. Betty found some "very important work" to do as well.



For our art project today, we did another McHarper Manor tutorial. This one was an acrylic painting on canvas of a sloth. So fun!

Betty wasn't interested in being in the picture, but hers is the abstract yellow painting

Then for our afternoon PE, Alex challenged the big kids to a bike race. The backstory: neither of my big kids can ride without training wheels yet. They are both afraid and embarrassed. It's been a big source of contention / anxiety at our house. The stakes: Alex told them that he would ride down our gently sloped street at an easy pace. If they could beat him to the bottom 2 out of 3 times, he would take them to Dairy Queen (drive thru) and order them any meal and any dessert they wanted.

Sabrina said, "no thanks." But Edgar was up for it. And he did it! After a first wobbly ride, he pushed himself and won race 2 and 3! Yay Edgar! Betty had fun riding around too.

Success!

Take THAT therapy! (His therapist has been trying for months to get him onto a bike).