Quarantine Week 7

I'm not sure why, but this seemed like a really hard week.  It felt like everything I tried to do took 3 times as long as it should and I kept getting so frustrated with everything that went wrong.  I also felt like I had much less patience this week. 

I think the kids are also being affected more.  They still play with each other all the time, but it seems like there is more fighting and crying as well.  Ava has been potty trained since February, but she doubled the amount of accidents she's had just this week.  In one day she had 3 accidents, which for her is a big deal.  She is doing much better now and hasn't had any accidents in the last couple of days. 

Asher is also having a harder time.  He gets frustrated much more easily and throws more tantrums.  He also has an incredibly hard time sleeping at night.  Before all this he would have one night every few weeks where he would take an hour or so to fall asleep.  But this week it seemed like every night he would still be awake 1.5-2 hours after bedtime.  He's not one to sleep in so he has just been getting 2 hours less sleep at night, which doesn't help things during the day because he's so tired.  I've realized that he sleeps much better when we go on a walk and he rides his bike so I've tried to be better about making sure we do that.  He does play outside a lot, but it seems like unless he is using his muscles more on a bike ride he just has a hard time sleeping at night. 

We've been super careful about avoiding people this whole time, but as soon as they open the city parks back up I'm going to make sure my kids get some play time!  I think they just aren't getting the stimulation of going new places and it's taking it's toll.  Like everyone else, I'll be so glad when this is over.

I only took one video and one picture this week, but here you go!

We have sooo many smoothies!  We bought a new blender since our almost 10 year old one bit the dust, and this new one has already gotten a lot of mileage!  It's something everyone will eat (not an easy thing to find in our house...) so we have many of those nowadays.  Ava gets especially messy when she drinks hers!

The girls singing along with Frozen.  Ava especially loves singing along when she hears a song she knows.  It's pretty fun to watch!