It's a Marrvelous Life: Summer 2020: outdoor recreation, visit from Grandma, boys' birthdays

Kid Quotes

Everett:

"Well, that spell worked. I said Accio Abram's apple, and he threw it at me."

"Hmm. That's weird. Where's the socks that were on my hands?"
"Adeline's running away and building a house beside our neighbors. I told you that so you can visit her."

"It’s a little easier if I have two spoons."

"I don’t know why I did that."

Peter

"When I grow up I will call myself Grown up of the Sea."

"I am Band-Aid Boy, I turn people into Band-Aids."

"I got two secret plans: sneakin and fightin."

Alicia (singing) "There’s a hole in my bucket..." Peter: "There is a hole in a bucket. That’s the part you get things inside it!"

Adeline

"I have knee powers, I can shoot knees at people."

"There's a air bubble on my head because I'm thinking about things." Alicia: "You mean a thought bubble?" Ad: "yeah"

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Everett

Ev posted this advertisement for free ninja classes to a tree in our yard facing the street

Ev wrote this on the outside of his headquarter's: "We find it, we solve it, we are the dragon hunters!"

Playing a Lego/card/board game of his invention, creative creatures

Adeline

Major haircut (both lengths visible in this post)

Adeline and Peter

Peter

Abram

Asking me to put his shoes on

Making/watching home movies

Neighbor's neigher

Gayla Mize Garden

Banita Creek

Visit from Mom/Grandma

Gayla Mize Garden and recreational trail

Zoo trip with Grandma in town

Swimming at Grandma's hotel

Fairy houses made by the three oldest using materials provided by the library

Hanging out near our house

Playing detectives/super heroes

When this branch fell down in our backyard, the kids climbed on it and then turned it into a house.

By trails by Maroney park

Millard's Crossing Historic Village

Mast Arboretum (can you spot the lizard?)

Tucker Woods (Ev rode his bike around on the paths here, running into a tree the first day, but doing fine on a return trip)

Treehenge of bald cyprus trees in Hinds Park by Tucker woods trails

(I later noticed the sign that said not to enter the vineyard)

around Pineywoods native plant center

Ellen Trout Zoo - southern white rhino, walking the trail around the pond by the zoo

Peter started preschool at First United Methodist Church for two half days each week. Everett and Adeline are doing their schooling remotely through the public school, mostly using Seesaw so far.