Monday: up up

Making a gliding robot was today's fun activity.  Isaac thought it was cool, although it went a little faster than I was hoping.

And Joshua has been pulling up on all sorts of things.  Today it was under the table...he barely fits.  He was crying until I came to find him, so he might have bonked his head a bit.

Sunday: Father's Day

I was grumpy today.  I felt rather selfish about it since it was Father's Day, but yeah.  It happened anyway.

I got one bad picture of them today.  It was really cute, but there was a window in the background and I wasn't about to ask them to move.

Saturday: random things to remember

*Isaac requested peanut butter and nutella for his birthday dinner.  So now every time we talk about peanut butter and nutella he reminds me that it's his birthday dinner.  (And we're going to have a sandwich bar so that not everyone has to have peanut butter and nutella.)

*Joshua has found his loud scream.  It's loud.

*Isaac has been stuffing his car seat strap into the holder.  The first time he did it I was a little annoyed because I just saw the loop and thought he had changed the settings...then I pulled it and realized it was a trick.  A good trick.  But now he does it all the time and still thinks it's tricky even though it isn't.

*Joshua likes playing in Isaac's room.  He scoots over there with purpose.  To be fair, the balloons and duplos are there and they are super fun.

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.