Thursday: happy spring break!

Spring break is here!

I was actually surprisingly productive at work today.  I had been expecting to grade all of the current lab next week on my work days, but instead I finished 2/3 of them. Woot-woot!

Class was a bit sparse.  Probably only 2/3 of the people showed up.  But the topic was pretty easv, so it worked well.

We got home and I gave the boys some goldfish.  Joshua proceeded to do this...three or four goldfish in every plate.  I admit...I don't wash dishes that have come out of the drawer.  They go right back in.  These probably will too, because by the time I find them the goldfish dust will be gone and they'll be in someone's bedroom.

Joshua saw I had the camera out, so obviously he laid on the floor for some pictures.  He is wearing green today!  He has one very green sock and one sock with just a little green.  That was all the green I could find for him.

Puppy Dog, on the other hand, was a little worried that he was going to get pinched by Silly Willie since he didn't have green pants on.  I said that green socks and a green shirt were enough to not get pinched.  (And I was a little sad that he learned about the pinching thing, probably in school.  However, apparently only Silly Willie does it, so Isaac didn't pinch Ben this evening.)

Wednesday: pool

We were invited to the pool again today with Betsy and her family.  The kids got cold a little faster than I was hoping, but we still had a good time at the pool and then we had enough time to have lunch together!  So it worked well.

Tuesday: boxes

Monday: hobbies

One of the things I like about quilting is that it is semi-difficult for the kids to hurt my supplies.  Today we got a backing.  Isaac loved it because it was black.  It ended up in the basement...


We also had a bunch of circles in bowls for dinner in celebration of Pi day.

The bad part of the day was there seemed to be extra "Joshua's touching me!" and "Joshua hit me, but it doesn't hurt!" and "I want to play with you" [in a whiney voice] and "I'm hungry".  I finally yelled and them and told them to stay apart or deal with each other because I didn't want to deal with it.  I was apologizing to Isaac later and he said, "It didn't hurt my ears."  "Did it hurt your feelings?"  "Yeah, my headache is almost gone."  So...it doesn't seem as though it phased him.  Phew.  Except that I still don't know what to do about it.

Sunday: life group

We had our Bible Study today.  It was nice to get together.  It was nice to discuss the book we're reading, Overrated.  The book makes me think and it's interesting to see how it makes others think too.

Saturday: family activities

This afternoon we went to Life Sized Candyland at the library.  We went on the later side, so it wasn't busy and it went a lot faster that I was expecting.  But it was kind of like trick-or-treating, so that was fun.  Team Blue (Ben and Isaac) were ahead the whole game until Team Red (Mom and Joshua) took a last spin lead.  I'm not sure where Team Blue and Team Red came from today, but we did a lot of competing.  Mostly on who could get their buckles on or off fastest in the car.

Then after dinner tonight Ben and Joshua were playing on the couch as they always do.  Joshua started falling backwards at the slightest tap from Ben.

Friday: a story from Wednesday

Wednesday while we were outside I was trying to show Joshua that he couldn't go in the road but had to stay in the driveway unless he was holding my hand.  (This didn't go all that well.)

At one point he went a few steps up the driveway, got down on all fours, and started crawling backwards.  That's what he has to do for the stairs.

Roads and stairs.  Both dangerous.  But unfortunately they require different mitigation procedures.