We have been in lockdown all week. I keep thinking that as far as being in lockdown goes, this is the best place for it, and our old house would have been awful, but then I keep realising that if we were in our old house, we wouldn't be in lockdown! It was supposed to be a snap three day lockdown from Saturday afternoon to Tuesday evening, but it was extended to Sunday, and now it looks like it will be extended again.
To celebrate settling in we took the kids to Aussie World. This was on Friday, before the lockdown. We all loved it. Sadly Arley was half a centimetre too short to go on a couple of the rides that he wanted to go on (the really scary ones!!), but the ones we did go on were really fun. Jeff and Carmie went on the really scary one - I can't believe he convinced Carmie to go on it. It was a really fun day without any dramas, so we are going to go back again as soon as Arley gets a little taller!
Jeffrey and I have been busy digging up old dead plants and weeds in the veggie beds of our new house. Today I planted a bunch of veggie seeds, so fingers crossed they take. We also had a large dirt area near a fence where the grass wasn't growing, so Arley and I got all of our fossils and made a garden bed out of the dirt. We have been busy planting flower seeds and the clippings I take off plants on our walks. Carmie thinks it's hilarious that I have been snipping off people's plants and always has a good laugh when I come home with my pockets full.
We have also fixed up the kids' cubby house. Arley swept it out and hosed it down himself, and now we have put some mats down and some large pillows, a blanket, and some snacks out there. Arely wants to decorate it, so we are going to get some fairy lights and let him hang drawings inside.
The kids and Jeffrey have also had a swim in the pool, albeit in their wetsuits. One day it was 27 degrees! I almost jumped in myself. It is going to be great having a pool this summer :) The kids and I have been having small fires in this tree stump that has been used as a fire pit. They are very excited about living here with these things to do in the backyard.
The lockdown is frustrating because we had plans this week to get out to homeschool activities, however I have to say, Arley has been fairly calm which has been nice. Maybe he needed this time to settle in. Carmie has been having insomnia on and off and has been emotional. I went to the doctor today to talk to her about Carmie's coeliac diagnosis, and to follow through with my testing, and the doctor wrote out a referral for Carmie to see a paediatric gastroenterologist to have an endoscopy. She said Carmie's numbers are really high and she would put money on it that she is coeliac, but before we all limit our diet even further, she wants a complete diagnosis. After Carmie gets her diagnosis, we have to get Arley tested, which is going to be a nightmare.
I wish we weren't in lockdown within our first month of moving here, but as far as lockdowns go, this one is pretty chill!
At Aussie World
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