As far as Mays go, this May has been pretty tame. Things are beginning to get back to normal, but not quite in full swing, so all the end of the year stuff is pretty low key.
The kids started in person piano lessons this month for the first time in over a year, so it's kind of weird having to actually drive them to lessons and pick them up, rather than just logging on to Facetime for a lesson. Megan was waiting for in person lessons to restart her piano lessons, so he is super pumped to be able to do piano lessons now.
Jacob is good at doing object lessons or using technology in a way that pulls the kids into our Come Follow Me lessons. A few weeks ago he did a lesson on watching for the signs of Christ's coming by having the kids make some cookies and watch for signs that they were ready.
With AZM2 testing over and done with, the kids are doing more project based learning, which is always a fun part of the end of the school year. Annie made a treehouse:
Annie and Ryan both are working on Taco Trucks in their class last year. We did taco trucks in our home school last year, so they already have a preview of that project.
We decided to clean our A/C ducts since we haven't done it since shortly after we moved into this house 8 years ago. We had them also clean out our dryer vent, which turned into such an ordeal. Apparently they did a lazy version the first time, so Friday when I went to do laundry it wouldn't dry at all. I called them and they said they'd come out Monday. I called a few times Monday when they didn't come when I expected them, and both times they assured me they'd call before they came and would for sure come out that day. Then they called and asked some questions about what was wrong and said they'd have someone come out first thing, but I couldn't stay unless they actually came at 8am, not just 8-9. They couldn't guarantee that, so he said they'd be there right at 12:00 when I got home. Alas, they didn't come until 2:30. The guy looked around trying to find where the vent exited, got a little tangled in our attic access and broke it a bit, then finally found the vent on the side of the house. He looked in it and said he didn't actually have the equipment to clean it out, so they'd need to come the next day. Why come without equipment to do the job? Ugh. It was a pain in the neck. So the next day I waited again, and they finally came, worked for 3-4 hours and got the vent unclogged. This is inside:
They had twice as much dryer lint outside. I guess it's a good thing we got it cleaned out, but I still can't believe that they told me they had gotten it done with all that lint still in the vent.
Ryan continues to love basketball. He has his last game coming up this Saturday.
For FHE last week we carved soap. It turned out to be pretty messy, getting soap shavings all over the place, but every one had a good time with varying degrees of success.
Rachel made a duck, Megan and Annie, I think, made hearts, Jacob, Megan, and I made cats, Jacob made a flower, Ryan made a spear, Annie made a necklace medallion, and I'm not sure whose sword that was.
Last week the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine for kids 12-15, so as soon as appointments opened I got one for Rachel. She was a little bummed that by the time it's time for her second shot it'll be summer break, so she couldn't take a planned day off like Jacob did to sleep off the side effects from her body ramping up antibody production. So instead I scheduled her vaccine for school hours, so she at least got to miss a couple hours of school to make up for it.
Now half of our family is vaccinated. (Technically Rachel isn't fully vaccinated yet, but at least she's on her way.) This week the CDC also came out with new guidelines saying it's ok for vaccinated people to be both indoors and outdoors with no masks on. Previous to that there were more strict guidelines, basically outdoors with no masks was ok, and indoors without masks was ok if there were only people that were also vaccinated or just one other unvaccinated household. With the new guidelines the church is now allowing those who are not vaccinated to come to church without masks on. They ask that all kids and adults who are not vaccinated to continue to wear masks. So today Jacob and I didn't wear a mask at church. It was a little weird to be surrounded by all those people and not have a mask on. There were many that I know are vaccinated that still wore masks. It'll take a while for people to feel comfortable without masks, I think.
Yesterday after playing at Grandma's pool and trampoline, Megan and Ryan wanted to go with the Knights to check out the new splash pad at Clements. The water was a little cold (especially with the breeze blowing through) but they had fun.
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