Tuesday: traffic jam

Today I had a lawn mower traffic jam as my neighbor and I were mowing the same area of our respective lawns.

When's the last time that's happened to you?

Monday: beach

Isaac and I hit the beach again today with his cousins.  It was a grey day, and a bit cool, but I wasn't cold.  And they had a great time.  It took Isaac a while to warm up to the idea of playing in the sand.  He just sat with me for a while.  Then he found a stash of rocks, so he played with those for a while.  I put his sandals back on while he was playing with the rocks...I think the texture of the sand might have been annoying him. Then he slowly started playing with the sand.  He didn't make it to the water, but maybe next time.

More rocks!

Sunday: "ok, maybe that's fine"

Isaac often makes me rethink my "rules".  It's not really a good or bad thing, it just is.

For example, today he was playing in the water left in the shower.  At first I thought this was a bad thing to do and tried to persuade him not to.  However, when he went back to the shower rather quickly and I decided that maybe it didn't really matter.  There wasn't even enough water to get more than his hands wet and there wasn't anything dangerous in the shower.  He was happy.

But just so you don't think I'm a complete push over, I didn't let him open and close the sliding door when Flurry could have escaped.  This caused lots of tears.

Saturday: a parable brought to life

The Parable of the Lost Coin

8 “Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins[a] and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?9 And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ 10 In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”  Luke 15: 8-10 NIV (biblegateway.com)

Isaac had lost two coins from his piggy bank toy.  Ben and I have been looking all over for them this last week.  I found them this morning!  They were in the front of his bus toy...hard to see unless you're at the correct angle and the colors were the same, making them even harder to spot.

So today we celebrated!!  I know, it's not the same as having a person come to Christ, but it did remind me how exciting such an event is.  We started with donuts.

Then Isaac played so well in the morning while Ben was sleeping.  He probably played for about two hours with minimal interventions from me, which is a huge change from the last several weeks.  I enjoyed it with a lot of quilting time.  This afternoon we went the library, the new frozen yogurt place, and the Peanut Store.  After dinner we spent a bit rolling the coins back and forth.  Well, Ben and I rolled the coins.  Isaac yelled excitedly and ran around.  

(We still have all the coins.)

It was a great day.

Friday: creepers

Look what came in the mail!  A family of creepers.

Isaac really wanted to play with them.  Probably because his creeper was the happy one.

To protect the creepers (which, yes, does seem a little backwards to me), they got a place of honor by the sink.  I had one shelf left to fill, so this family is perfect for it.

(And it even looks like I have a clean kitchen!)

Thanks Zach and Jenny for such a fun surprise!

Thursday: this and that

Today was the last day of swimming lessons.  I think that they were really good for us...Isaac seems more comfortable in the water and I know some things to do with him.  Now we just need to keep getting in the water periodically.  It might be a little easier to do since he always takes a nap afterwards...there are some days that I just really want him to take a nap. :)

I was going to go grocery shopping today but didn't.  I've been meaning to go all week.  We'll go (for sure (probably)) tomorrow.

We went over to Dad and Pat's for dinner.  That was a lot of fun.  Isaac was cute and played well with us and the toys.

Wednesday.

While reviewing the day in my mind, I found that there wasn't any one thing that stood out today.  It was a good day...weeding and then going downtown with Cheryl and fun times with Isaac.

So I'll leave you with a link about American English linguistic/pronunciation differences that I found really interesting.  If you choose to look at it, you may be interested in knowing that I fit into most of maps except as follows:
*Crayon (I say "cran", which would be the green color)
*Pecan (I say "Pick-ann", which would be blue)
*And I say "drinking fountain" and "water fountain" equally, not the deep blue of West Michigan

I'm a little sad that I didn't see one about basketball hoops, but maybe it is in the other maps that have been made.  I can't get the link on the bottom of the page to work.