Quarantine Day 13: Yoga with Nana & Games from Grammy

Today the kids slept in. Juliet came into our room at 7:30 and Naomi came down at 8! JP made breakfast and went to work. The kids had breakfast and then Juliet had her morning meeting with her class. She quickly lost interest and it was a struggle to get her to listen. I think we'll skip tomorrow!

Yoga was next on the agenda. The kids picked out the 'Room on a Broom' yoga today and we faced timed with Nana and she did yoga too!! Tomorrow we'll give her a bit more of a heads up and have her start from the beginning with us!

After yoga we did a bunch of learning games. We played an ABC board game together. Then Naomi pulled out another word building game and Juliet decided she was interested in legos. So while Juliet and I did today's Lego challenge - build your parents a house, Naomi did the word game. Then I had an idea. I called Grammy to see if we could borrow Boggle. Naomi was ready to learn this game! 15 minutes later Grammy showed up with several word building games! Thanks Grammy! We played these games the rest of the morning. At lunch we had a family game of Simposon's Clue that Grammy also brought over! Hopefully lunch time game time is something we continue to do!

After lunch Juliet and I went up to try to nap while Naomi read. Of course Juliet couldn't nap, but she did put her timer on for half an hour and lay in bed until then, getting up once to read a few books quietly, then lay back down. Once Juliet and I came downstairs we set up Battle Ship. We just ordered it with Uncle Dave to play virtually. We'll see how it goes!

Then Juliet helped make dinner. Tonight was beef stroganof. While Naomi and I did the drawing of the day: draw something from your favorite book.

And then it was the usual, clean up, brush teeth, PJ's, books & bed!

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