Tuesday: busy

Once again, it was a busy day.  The kids only had a half day of school, so I went to get them right after I was done teaching.  I had assorted errands to do.  Ben and I went to parent-teacher conferences.  Isaac had a glowing report.  Joshua had an almost glowing report, although he needs to work on using punctuation on rough drafts.  We had rock climbing.

I tried to think of something else interesting, but any of the interesting things have escaped me.

Monday: annoying chores

This morning I was not excited about my chores for the day.  They needed to be done, but I was actively not looking forward to them.

They weren't as bad as I expected.  Two of them, while they took a while, were fine.  The third one I decided to delay.  I received an email from a company around noon with further steps.  If they don't get back to me again by the time I have time again I'll call another company because it is getting ridiculous.   I've been trying to hire them since the beginning of the year.

Sunday: other names

Last night we were talking about names our sons (because there were only sons last night) would have had if they were girls.

We never had girl names picked out, but Isaac's other possible name was Elliot and Joshua's was Seth.  They were both second choices, but we wanted to wait until they were actually born to make a decision.

Saturday: photos

These three mourning doves sat like this for a long time.  I passed the window three or four times and finally took a picture.

Since Isaac is 13 now, I realized that he needs to start sitting in the front seat.  I made him sit in the front on Thursday and then snagged the back on our way to visit some friends.  He managed to guide us to Meijer, but only with the help of Joshua.  Meijer is close.  I thought he would be more confident in his directions.

Friday: nice

 At rock climbing today, Isaac and Joshua started by making their own route ("add-on").  It went well.  Isaac stayed through the end of making it, as was decided at the beginning.  Then Joshua and I used the route as a take-away, taking away one hold at a time.  Before that got started I decided to add the holds that I wanted to the route, because I hadn't added any yet and Isaac and Joshua are both much better than I am.

I got half way through the route and got stuck.  It wasn't that high, but it felt high.  Joshua was so kind about it though.  First he just said, "come on down".  It wasn't quite as easy as he made it sound, but I got down.  Then he put a whole bunch of additional holds along the bottom so that I would be more comfortable and enjoy the take-away more.  It was sweet.

Joshua: 121 to 126 months

121 months:

122 months:

123 months:

124 months:

125 months: missed

126 months:

And with that, I'm finally up to date!!   ...with Joshua.

Joshua: 110 to 120 months

 110 months:

111 months:

112 months:

113 months:

114 months:

115 months:

116 months:

117 months - missed

118 months:

119 months:

120 months: