Saturday: racquetball and sand

Ben and I played racquetball today.  We changed it up a bit - instead of having the hard serve game first, we had the hard serve game second.  It worked nicely, at least today.  I played better for all the games today.

I brought the boys outside to play in the sand this afternoon.  Isaac swam across our cove several times; he loved it.  It's fun to see him grow.  And Joshua played a lot better than I expected.  He sat on the sand for a while and then loved playing in the shallow water. 

Thursday belated: funny but embarassing

Yesterday Ben and I were playing racquetball and I had an itch on my non-dominant hand.  A bad itch.  I couldn't itch it well because my other hand was gloved and holding a racket, so I used my teeth.  It hurt, and I decided that there probably could have been a better way to do it.

Later last night I found a bruise on my hand.  Important lesson learned: don't bite yourself.

Friday: what we did today

So yeah, today didn't work quite as well as yesterday.  But we survived.  We really only had to survive until 11am, at which point activities started.

We went to TimberTown with Betsy and family.  The boys really liked it.  It is a playground geared for slightly older kids, but Isaac and Ethan did well.

Joshua and Leah did well too.

Joshua really likes the swings, even though you can't tell from the picture.  Isaac was banned from the baby swings as of today because he got a little too stuck.

The boys loved going back and forth on the black thing, although it took them several times to realize that they liked it.

Our fun thing was to get ice cream.  Isaac was looking forward to it all day.

Joshua didn't get any.  Hmm.  I look cute in the picture.

But he did get a spoon!

Thursday: a good day

Today worked.  It doesn't always happen, but is so nice when it does.

The day started out.  Isaac was enjoying playing with his rock crayons.  Not coloring with them, as one might expect, but moving them in and out of the box and divider.  Joshua was enjoying playing with a ball and a balloon and in Isaac's room.  So I enjoyed actually getting a few chores done without people waiting for me to do something with them.

Then Joshua went down for a nap so Isaac and I did the work activity...put up a curtain in the guest room.  We had drawn this once before and only managed to get the pieces, but this time we got it up.  Isaac did a good job helping...handing me stuff, plugging in the extension cord, and putting the curtain on the rod.

Here is his photo of the finished product:

and here is mine.  Black balloon had taken on a personality at some point within the project and wanted his picture taken too.

Our fun activity was water colors.  I thought that Joshua might enjoy it too, but he didn't.  I think I took him away from a balloon he was really enjoying chasing and never made the transition.  After putting him back on the floor to play I made triangles.

Isaac attempted triangles too, but some of them got silly.

Finally, I noticed this on an invoice today...hmm, I thought I had rotated it.  Anyway, the name says "Amanda Killgore."  I think I'm going to give that surname to Amalle, my WoW character.  It seems appropriate as she is a healer and really wants to kill gore.  But it still sounds menacing.

Wednesday: balloons, take 2

We had some friends over for lunch, and they have some kids about Isaac's age.  I opened up the room with balloons.  The previous rule had been that the balloons stay in the room.  The balloons came out of the room.  This added a whole new dimension to the balloons!  They could go in Isaac's bedroom!  They could go in the basement!  So much fun!

Tuesday: progress

Today I finally feel as though progress was made on several things in our life...

1) The insurance finally gave the ok for the car to be fixed.
2) The sprinkler that I mowed over got fixed...and it is a different style so now it's ok to mow over it
3) The weed whacker is fixed and I can pick it up tomorrow.

So many annoyances.  But...just annoyances.

Joshua also had swimming lessons today; he did wonderfully. I took Isaac in the pool ahead of time.  He still hates getting his face wet and doesn't mind letting me know.  But I made him do it before I'd let him have a life jacket.

Monday: 46 weeks and density

Joshua is 46 weeks old!  He didn't have a fever today, so that was wonderful.

Our fun activity today was a density glass.  Here it is in progress.  The first three or four liquids separated very well, but then we added one that didn't separate very well.  We had caramel, syrup, milk, dish soap, water, rubbing alcohol, and vegetable oil.

Then we put some items in too...a bolt, rice, ping pong ball.  Isaac never quite grasped the concept of density, but had fun putting things in the glass.

I tried to get Isaac to drink the black water, but he wouldn't.

I put the glass in the fridge to see if things would separate more over time...and they did.  It's a bit harder to see in the picture, but the strips are obvious, although not well defined.