Sunday: house, moon, walking

I worked really hard to get the house cleaned up over the weekend.  And I was mostly successful!  Not completely successful, but I also managed to get some other random things done.  One random thing was a art spot for Isaac.  He's been coming home with some really cool art from school, but I didn't have a great spot for it.  He didn't care too much when I was putting it in the recycle (as long as he didn't see it), but that's a bit boring.  So I put two ribbons in his room.  This gives plenty of space to hang art from, but also will help us get rid of some when the ribbon gets full.

Moon...the clouds cleared just in time!  Ben and I went out as the full eclipse started and at the mid point.  (I'm hoping to go out once near the end too.)  Very pretty in it's red color.

Joshua started walking a lot more today.  He's still not great at it, but maybe 50% of the time started walking towards something.  He often fell after a few steps and would continue scooting there.  But once in a while he made it all the way to his goal.

Saturday: the day

Isaac's new use for the scooter.  Normally he wouldn't fall off.

Friday: joke

Q: Why was the ink drop sad?
A: It's mother was in the pen and didn't know when the sentence would end.

Thursday: today

Today happened.  Nothing really of note.  I dropped off the kids, had an eye doctor's appointment, did some work, taught, picked up the kids, made dinner, ate, gave the kids baths and put them to bed, and then quilted and played warcraft.

It was a pleasant day though.  I was wearing a new outfit.  Isaac's teacher said he had no problems not saying "poop" during class.  My contacts for the next year were completely covered by insurance.  Joshua enjoyed his bath.

Wednesday: bird of prey

We were leaving the gym today and saw a bird of prey on the grass.  We watched it a while; it was having it's dinner.  We started walking towards the cars and realized it was right off the driver's side of Ben's car.

We got the kids in the car I was driving.  The bird of prey was still there, eating away.  The cars going by weren't bothering it a bit.  There was one car with people that was also watching the bird.  Ben ended up getting in the car from the passenger side.  Luckily, for the bird I guess, the car was electric and so Ben was able to pull away without disturbing it at all.  It was pretty neat.

My best guess is that it was a Cooper's Hawk, but the bird book says that there are a few that look very similar.

Tuesday: outside

Today we played outside for a bit after dinner.  Isaac and I played "go to bed", in which he is the parent and I am the child.  I holler for him to fix all my problems.  He's pretty good at fixing all of them except the one when I'm not sleepy.  (Oh, and all the monsters got turned into poop.)

At the same time Joshua and I played weeds.  Joshua would pick some weeds and give them to me.  He seemed very happy with himself.

Sunday: pfft

Joshua was copying Ben's funny noise.  It's kind of hard to see.  At the end you hear Isaac saying, "Poop."  Why?  Because he is obsessed with that word lately.  It seems to come out of his mouth about every half hour.

In other news, my eye and leg were doing much, much better today.  Almost all of our flies have been gone since yesterday...I think there is still one floating around, but we're almost done.