Social Distancing day 32: Obstacle course (and crying)

Today was a little rough.  I'm not sure what Flynt's deal was today but he was very much acting his age and doing all of the things that make people call the terrible two's the terrible twos.  A good portion of the morning involved Flynt crying and a chunk of the afternoon too.  Not to be outdone by little bro, Wren also had a good bit of crying this afternoon as well (not related to school stuff mentioned below). 

In between the feelings we had to go to Wren's school to pick up the last bit of her stuff that was left there and a bag of materials from her teachers.  She's in preschool so it's art supplies.  They didn't provide anything useful like kindergarten writing paper or how to teach math concepts to little people.  I'm a little (a lot) frustrated with her school for not putting forth a little more effort to engage or interact with the kids.  It's expensive and I feel like they really haven't tried very hard and they are not even going to try next month.  They are just dropping all attempts at school but they still want the parents to pay full tuition.  I'm not mad that they want us to pay tuition.  I feel like it is important to pay teachers and to keep as much as the economy going as possible but I also think they could have tried a little harder (like, at all) to provide some learning and interactions with the kids.  In the month and a half since they had school there was exactly 1 zoom meeting with all the kids in her class.  That's it.  No other online interaction.  I feel like this was a huge miss.  So many other schools do so much more.  Okay... I'll stop ranting but I have a lot of feelings about this.

We made an obstacle course out front today.  Both kids had fun wandering around the front yard and getting outside.  I let Wren help choose the types of challenges that she did.  There was "rock hopping", jumping, jumping jacks, single leg hops, spins, donkey kicks, a big jump, side hops and a balance beam.  It was fun and Wren really seemed to enjoy it but it was a little to much structure and too physically challenging for Flynt to have any interest.  She started from the beginning each time we added a new obstacle.  Flynt was busy being a "flower" in my big pot out front and he was an iris apparently.  We also did a little front yard raking with lots of help from Wren and Flynt.  Our outside time was the longest stretch of the day without crying so I most definitely call it a win.