Friday: the day Joshua hurts and doesn't hurt himself.

Joshua took a few spills today.  The first big one I didn't see, but he almost had a bloody nose.  (His snot from a little cold was red.)  The second one was when he tripped on the driveway.  I've been hesitant to leave him alone on the driveway due to its slant and Joshua's newness to walking, but today I thought he was looking pretty good.  Guess not.

There were also a gazillion close calls today.  Joshua seems to be more wild than Isaac was.  But most of the time he just stands back up...I suppose it is all part of the learning process.

Thursday: today

Today I was rather glad it didn't snow last night so that I could get back in bed for ten more minutes.  It's a good thing my eyes didn't deceive me, as they often do with snow.  Also, I always feel like we're running about five minutes early until we start pulling out of the driveway, at which point I feel like we're running about five minutes later than ideal.

Work went fine.  Some good, some medium.  Nothing all that bad though.

I picked up the kids.  They had both had a good day.  After being home for an hour or so Joshua went a bit crazy.  So we went in his room to read and see if that would calm him down.  Nope.  He said, "Look, I can stand on my little chair!"  then "Look, I can stand on my chair's arm while holding the crib" then "Look, I don't need to hold the crib!"  At that point I put an end to it, flipping the chair on it's back so he can't stand on the arms.  So he proceeded to throw things and himself across the room.  (Yes, himself.  It was odd.  I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone throw themselves across a room before.)  So we took a bigger time out and watched some TV.  The boys cuddled with me and I think I took a brief nap because I don't remember about 15 minutes of the show we were watching.  Joshua calmed down, at least for a bit.  Then Ben got home so there were at least two of us to deal with the crazy.

Wednesday: raisins

During snack time today Isaac started rolling the raisin container to me.  I rolled it back.  It went over a raisin.  *So funny.*  Even Joshua laughed a bunch.

So I tried again.  This time I squished all of Isaac's raisins.  *Hillarious!*

Isaac put up a water bottle to protect his raisins.  The raisin container knocked into it, causing it to crash.  *Big laughs*

Isaac put up two water bottles to protect the raisins.  The raisin container knocked into them, but didn't do anything.  *Still very funny*

Isaac moved the water bottles around.  The raisin container was diverted to the floor.  *Happy screams*

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We managed to lose one of the duplo trains between last night and this morning.  This afternoon, Isaac found it.  I asked him where it was and he said, "By the bowls."  The embarrassing thing about this is that there are bowls all over the house (thanks Joshua), so I still have no idea where it was.

Tuesday: a good day

I thought it was going to be a rather busy/stressful day.  It was busy, but it wasn't that stressful.

First off, it helped that I did most of my class prep yesterday.  Then today I dropped off the kids (with a crazy number of bags.  Seriously.  They're not there for that long...how do they need so much stuff?)  Then I went to Bible Study.  Then I had an hour before class, but that was enough to get to school, do a quick review, and get ready.

Class went well.  I tried asking specific students small questions for the review and that seemed to go well.  Then I had a help session for lab and no one showed up...so I was able to get a lot of stuff done.

I even had some time to clean and organize my office/storage closet.

I picked up the boys and we played quite a bit of Duplos during the evening.

Monday: misc

Isaac figured out how to get all four lights from his set to light up all by himself.  I didn't think it would work at all since the only theory he knows is that everything needs to connect in a circle.  He was very excited to show it off to everyone.

Sunday: snow!

Ahh...the last few weeks have been so nice now that we've had snow.  Last year I did get sick of the snow around March...I think it started in November...but only because we had no place to put it anymore.  I love watching it come down and making everything white.

Today it snowed most of the day.  A little bit of "I can easily see the houses across the lake" to "I can't see the houses at all!"  (The last one rarely happens.  The normal heavy snow is "I can make out house-like shapes if I move my head back and forth.)  It was lovely.  And it was super light snow, so we didn't get a ton of accumulation.  Probably just the right amount for sledding tomorrow.

Saturday: feeling better

Well, I did end up with a fever last night.  It's much nicer having a fever when there's someone to get you some medicine.  And it's super awesome to feel better again.  I love feeling normal.  I can think thoughts, I actually want to do things, and I can put forth more than the minimum effort.

Joshua was a little cranky today.  Isaac was a little non-listeny.  But we survived.