The month went from being in the thick of the social distancing, to a tiny bit of responsible socializing. Mommy continued to go to coaches meetings in preparation to hopefully begin gymnastics again, and hosting the Friday evening Zoom HIIT workouts. We all had eye appointments, two of us at a time. Then more car parades kept us working on the Bronco. First was Shelby's, followed by KO's and then Sydney's. The Bronco survived them all.
As a family we enjoyed Legos and bike rides to get out. Daddy brought home a projector and he introduced us all to Indiana Jones with an backyard movie night. School year was coming to an end, so we went to do a drop off / pick up at Carver for Kaylee and a year book pick up for Cienna. We did some more rock painting and Kan Jam. Cienna made a very creative fairy house. We all had a gymnastics team zoom game night where the girls played a Kahoot game that had questions about their coaches. We also did a zoom movie night with the Marshall's and Vigliotti's to watch the new Full Out 2 gymnastics/dance movie together!
Then we were again invited to be part of the Ferrario/Bakx family to close out the end of an amazing era. The Garden Grove Arena Soccer Park that we've played at for almost 20 years, where we met our extended Southern California Family, was closing. We all went to play at the fields together one last time. All of the family made 3 teams and we had a tournament, and all played for about 2 hours together before tearing the place down completely. It was fun to see Cienna and Kaylee which are by far younger than any of the others hold their ground playing with the big kids and really old kids! They were so excited to finally play on the fields instead of watching us. Afterward we went to the Bakx house for some swimming and finally seeing other people time.
The next week was the last week of school. We started with another car parade for Jemma. Then Kaylee had an orthodontist appt. to get spacers in for her bottom braces the following week. We also got to see Mommy's cousin's daughter Mikayla who brought her puppy Ellie, for us to watch while she headed to Texas to be there for her brothers high school graduation. He was so much fun and Porter loved the puppy energy.
While Ellie was here Porter had his birthday. We spoiled him with attention and took him as always on our weekly "Friday Night Lights" bike parade around the neighborhood. Afterward we continued to prepare for Kaylee's birthday weekend. Kaylee and Mommy went to the Dollar store for decorations and the grocery store for food where Kaylee picked out dinner for the next 3 nights. She wanted Chili with fresh bread on Saturday night, Ribs and Caesar salad Sunday, and Domino's Pizza on her Birthday.
We had a Virtual Kahoot game that we played with about 15 friends on Sunday. The main game had 45 questions that all related to her friends since we sent out a google docs to each of them ahead of time with fun questions for them to answer. Then we incorporated them into questions for the game. It went really well despite a couple of glitchy voices. Then we had all the decorations prepared for the car parade out front of our house! She had so many amazing friends come by and help her celebrate her birthday. She was super excited to see so many faces, from school friends, gymnastics friends, teachers, coaches, and neighbors that she had been missing.
The next morning Daddy had to get up by 4am for a work meeting, so Mommy decided to take the morning off of work and stay home to surprise her in the morning. Mommy and Daddy set up balloons, and a sign to welcome her when she woke up. Then when she cam down the stairs and turned the corner Mommy was there to sing her Happy Birthday. We can't believe that she is 10!!!! We spent the morning going to Starbucks and playing games and then the girls got to go to their very favorite, Acting Out, camp of the summer. They always look forward to it, and this year we weren't sure it was going to happen. But since it is a small group they were able to pull it off with social distancing and it started on Kaylee's birthday. Mommy went to work and then picked them up later that afternoon. They had just as much fun as they expected to! That evening the Marshall's and Vigliotti's met us in the front yard to sing Kaylee happy birthday with her candles and cake. Afterward we had a gymnastics team parent meeting to talk about coming to gymnastics 2 days later!! It was going to happen and we were all excited. The whole gymnastics staff worked hard to prepare coming back to be as safe as possible.
The girls continued to enjoy Acting Out and mid way through the week Kaylee then got her bottom braces just before the girls first day back at gymnastics! It went really smooth since there were only 14 gymnasts in 2 groups and 3 coaches in the entire gym. There were certainly new rules, and a lot more cleaning for Mommy and the other coaches, but WOW it felt so good to see everyone and be at the gymnastics center together!
Cienna and Kaylee have really gotten to respect each other and learn even more how to push each others buttons. But you can see that they are happy to have each other and they certainly know how to have fun together!
Some goofy pictures to follow!
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