Here is a video of Mary going through her book report that Georgia helped her with. She was going to a box to display her report, but Nana’s wall did the trick 🙂
The best part of Friday was an evening walk. Abe spent two hours walking around our block and neighborhood with the older girls, and Lydia talked the whole time. Abe was so thrilled because he didn’t have to do anything but listen, respond occasionally, and enjoy the kids. He said that it was the first time that it felt like just chatting with friends instead of with children.
They spent a lot of time imagining crazy science experiments. When I unburied myself from my book and joined them, I got to be the judge of whose experiments were the craziest. And then we sent the girls in to put themselves to bed while we did a few more laps around the block. At one point, as the sun sank, the trees erupted in bird song. That was magical. And oh my goodness, the view from our house is insane. We watched the sun set over Utah Lake and the mountains beyond. So beautiful.
I think we’re going to try to make this a routine because it was just so fun.