Kansas and her Hair Cut

Now I don’t know all the details but, here are some.
Because of corona virus and home schooling, we have more supplies in our home than normal and more accessible. This includes pencils, glue, paper, and scissors.
Kansas has a thick head of beautiful blonde hair and mom had mentioned in passing conversation the need to get her hair trimmed up a bit, just to even it out. Well Kansas must have heard this conversation and took matters into her own hands. She was in her bedroom quiet, and when she came out she said, “look mom,” holding hair in her hands, “ I cut my hair”
Well with not hair cut salons open due to Covid mom had to clean up Kansas’s mess. She did a pretty good job as there was a chunk missing from the front and from the back.
She now looks like Uma.

She went from this on Sunday 

To this on Monday. 

Mom was devastated about the hair loss and didn’t want to talk about it but she has got over it and Kansas is still cute as ever

That Family

Yup after almost 40 years of avoiding Lice it finally hit. Well not me or mom, but our family was hit with lice. Some how both dads parents and moms parents managed to negate the risk of a lice pandemic in our homes, but we failed.
Both Macie and Kansas one morning were found to be infested. Mom was combing Macie's hair and noticed a bunch of red marks on Macie's neck and she new right away....

After a careful comb through  she found lots of eggs and several live bugs crawling around....

eggs in hair

eggs in the comb

We are pleased to announce that after a week and lots of bug  hunting we are a lice free family again. 

Quarantine Entertainment

It can be a challenge to know what to do when you are supposed to stay inside.

Games, and Puzzles have been on our list of items.

Two 1000 piece puzzles in 2 days.

EASTER

Happy Easter!

It was a great Easter. Although it was cold and snowy, being with family was fun.

On Good Friday we watched the last week of the Saviours life bible videos. It was well done.

Saturday we Coloured easter eggs at the Halls and played games. One of the new favourites has to be Killer Bunnies. We usually get a good laugh as we play it.

On Sunday we got up stinking early thanks to Wade, who was very excited the Easter Bunny came, but he was really good and went back to his room for a few minutes while mom and dad gathered their wits about them and called him back. The whole house was up by 7am.

After breakfast we got ready for family sacrament at the Halls. Because of Covid-19 all church meetings have been canceled. Member have been authorized to do sacrament in their homes until future notice.

Aunt Terra did the lesson and we talked about the Atonement and what we have learned about it.
After the lesson and Sacrament, the kids grabbed their baskets and searched for eggs. Kansas brought back a huge haul. She was so proud of herself and her inventory.

The dinner was amazing. It was a nice ham dinner with funeral potatoes. The desserts were exactly what you would expect, at the same level. Skor Poke Cake and Lemon Cheese Cake.

After dinner we played some more games. Rook, Drawful, and Killer Bunnies was on the list of games.
Drawful was fun to watch the younger kids play. Most of them have a hard time spelling so watching the funny words show up on screen and get voted on, and then the kids reaction when they got a vote or won the round was priceless.

Killer Bunnies was so wild, with no one really knowing who will win. This game Aunt
Terra won.

The cousins from left to right
Wade, Bailee, Macie, Kansas, Grady, Bryna, Emilee
funny how the boys like to tilt their heads??? At least it's in the same direction.

Kansas with a huge haul

lots of eggs

                                         

Aunt Terra With the winning Carrot "Abu"

Quarantine

Due to the Corona Virus (Covid-19) crazy measures have been taken by our governments. Many of our freedoms have been taken away to help minimize the spread of this super infectious virus. Schools and many places of work have closed down. Any place where people can gather for social/ entertainment has been shut down. No sports, no play grounds, no swimming,  borders, churches, air ports, even the provincial parks are closed.
This all means that children are at home doing home school and many parents have been laid off and are stuck at home as well.
we have been blessed that daddy still is able to go to work. Mommy has been laid off as her work minimized staff and have reduced patience to emergency visits only.
Macie and Wade have been home schooling for about a month now. They have been pretty good about it. There are some definite challenges.
Wade has a hard time sitting still long enough to get through a lesson, unless it is about starwars, which not may are. Wade has been excelling at reading and doing well with math.
Macie has a hard time taking coaching. She is excelling at math and art and doing well at reading. When she focus' she excels at most everything she tries.
Kansas is very busy. She enjoys helping out around the house and playing with toys. She is trying to potty train with some days better than others.
Mom has been staying some what sane by taking the kids on super long walks around Magrath.

New Class Room

Macie

Wade

                                                              Mom's GYM class

Brave Kansas

Kansas finally got approved for Genetic testing to see if there are any Myasthenia Gravis genes in her blood. It took forever to get approved, but when Kansas started having some major eye dropping when she got sick with a virus, her paediatric neurologist fast tracked her paperwork and we finally got the paperwork to get the bloodwork done. We went first thing this past Monday morning and because of the Coronavirus it was super slow. We got in right away and the lab technician was so wonderful and patient with Kansas. Kansas was so incredibly brave and sat so still and watched as the lab tech took the blood from her without crying or wincing once. They were so impressed with her they gave her extra stickers and play dough. Now it is time to be patient and wait for the results as it can take 6-8 weeks to get the results back. Possibly longer with the craziness of the Coronavirus right now.

Polar Bears

Since the New Year Wade has been working on a project at school that would be displayed at the school for all the Grade 1 parents to come and see. Wade choose to do his project on Polar Bears. He was always talking about it at home so I was very excited for the day we would go and hear all about it. On a Wednesday in March myself, Aunt Terra, Grandma and many other members of the Magrath community made there way to the school to learn about the many different animals the Grade 1’s had researched and done their project on. Wade did such a great job and it was so fun seeing him present to us some cool facts about Polar Bears. Like how they live in the Artic, Or that they are the biggest bear in the world.