Quinn was kicked out of his dorm at UC Boulder because of the Corona virus. He’s staying with us and storing some thing in our garage.
For the last two nights, Max, Quinn, and I watched the original Halloween movie.
At the end of the first night, we closed the laptop and started heading upstairs to bed. Max told me to first make sure the front door was locked as he went to the kitchen for some water. I walked to the front door, peeked out and said “OH MY GOD! THERE’S SOMEONE OUT THERE!” Max freaked out until Quinn told him I was only joking.
I guess I feel bad about it now because tonight, after the 2nd half of the movie, we watched some more Eric Andre skits with Quinn. For almost every skit Max asked, “Is that real?” So I realize that he isn’t yet understanding the kind of humor I was attempting with the door.
This afternoon, we went to the “backcountry” of Highlands Ranch without Karolina. Quinn liked the scenery, but there was too much snow and I could not carry Elliot very long. So we went to Chatsfield Reservoir where Max and Elliot played in the ice water and sand for a long time.
Then, after the dishwasher repairman left, the three of us played Minecraft together for a couple of hours in the still-unfinished basement.
Next we built two really good snowmen. One was a cyclops who Max named Silodon or something like that. I thought it sounds like Smilodon, the saber-toothed cat. The smaller snowman was shooting the larger one with an orange plastic gun. We had red & green cake dye for blood and color. Elliot kept taking the gun from the snowman, shooting us with it.
Then a great snowball fight without Elliot. Chinle bit Quinn on the butt, thinking he was attacking Max. So Chinle went upstairs. For a while Elliot was copying what he saw me do earlier: put water into a bowl from the downspout and pour it onto the snowman.
Elliot said a few new words this weekend:
- fie for fire (we had our first fire in the backyard the other day). Two days later it was fiya.
- no for snow
- food
