Coronavirus Quarantine Week 9: May 10 – 16

The week started out with a Mother’s Day brunch delivery. I even got the fixings for bloody maries delivered! I’d already gotten my gardening gift early so I could do a lot of gardening on Saturday!

I framed the succulent painting that Jess made for me. Makai loves to play with the seashells in my office.

Makai is always taking photos of mom and dad while he’s facetiming!

Makai finished a 550 piece puzzle while listening to a Captain Underpants audio books.

Banana :: Cream Cheese :: Streusel

An early morning breakfast meeting outside on the deck.

Some states are starting to open up and people are mobbing stores. It’s crazy.

Not good news here in Illinois. Luckily, it seems our leaders – Prizker and Lightfoot – are following the data. Other states are making purely political moves.

Baby garden.

Lunch al fresco.

Romi saw that I was making this on one of our Zoom meetups and admired it, so I made one for him too!

We walked down a neighborhood street we’d never been on before and saw this tribute from 2016.

After 2 years we finally have some shelves in our garage.

I love these murals at Kilbourn and Addison, across from the metra stop.

Mom, can I listen to my tablet? Only if you go outside! Listening to the first Harry Potter book. We already read it together and watched the movie.

Listening to the Wow in the World podcast.

Reading in his bedroom.

Beautiful afternoon. 75*

We tried to find some nature today. Makai enjoyed watching a chipmunk  hide in a hollow log and a couple of ducks play in the water. We were in Edgebrook Woods. It felt like we were way more than a 13 minute drive from our house.

We spotted this leaning tower of pisa in Niles, while we were driving around looking for a place to get on the trail (the parking lots were closed!). Per Wikipedia: “The Leaning Tower of Niles is a half-size replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Located in Niles, Illinois, it was completed in 1934 by industrialist Robert Ilg as part of a recreation park for employees of the Ilg Hot Air Electric.”

Some of Makai’s math homework. They only do sums up to 10, but Makai can definitely go higher.

Makai’s First Cubs Game

Once in a while they give away Cubs tickets at work. Last year I got tickets for a night game. This year I was only going into the lottery for the tickets that were available on the weekend, so that we could take Makai to his first Cubs game. This was especially vital since early last year he came home and declared himself to be a Sox fan!


Everything went great, except that it was HOT HOT HOT! 95 degrees, but felt like hotter!

Since we now live just south of Addison, we got all our Cubs gear on and caught the Addison bus. EVERYONE on the bus was also decked out in their Cubs gear, so it was already an exciting day for Makai. When someone heard it was his first game, the whole bus got excited too!

We started out at Smoke Daddy Wrigleyville, where we met Kristin, Killian, and Declan for some lunch.

Kristin had our fourth ticket, so she came with us to the game.

At the game it was hot. HOT HOT HOT. Sit in your seat and melt HOT.

We made sure Makai had a lot of water and ice cream to stay cool and hydrated.

 We stayed hydrated in other ways.

Cubs won. Overall we had a fun day.. it was just so HOTTTT!!!! AHHHHHH@!!!