Tuesday: animal kingdom

Today we were of to the animal kingdom!

We started with a character breakfast.

Joshua's look shows how he felt about most of them and Isaac was OK but not super excited.  Donald actually made it around twice and since we weren't trying to do so much the second time I think he enjoyed it s bit more.

Then we went one an animal walk.  There was a bird house that we got to go in and Joshua loved it.  He's really enjoyed all the birds, from exotics to sparrows, this trip.

On the walk we also picked up an explorer book for Isaac.  Her could learn about different things and get stickers for doing so.  It was pretty cool and he really got excited about it.

We watched the Nemo show... Well done but a bit loud.  I especially enjoyed the actors who got to be big ocean plants.  I think I would enjoy that part.

Then a quick ride and onto the safari!  Joshua, of course, feel asleep about the minutes before the safari until the minutes after.  I tried to wake him up, but he wouldn't.  Isaac got excited by some of the wildlife and kept asking us to take a picture!

We slowly made our way back to the hotel where the adults napped ( or tried to) and the kids had their screen time.  Then to the pool and dinner and just like that it was way past bedtime!

Made it!

We made it to Disney!  The trip went rather smoothly... It helped that Joshua slept for a good part of it.  After an early dinner at Disney springs we went to the hotel (where the boys enjoyed making pillows mountains until the luggage came).  We followed it up with a swim and some dessert.

My phone app doesn't seem to let me do pictures, so they might have to wait again. :(

Ha.  Take that app.

Saturday: a proud parent

This morning Isaac and I ran the Kids' Fun Run, a 1K.  Last year we came in second-to-last and barely made it.  This year was so different!  I don't think that we ever stopped moving, although we did take a few short walking-water breaks.  But for the most part we were running!

We did tell him that we would go to the playground if there was enough time after the race and before our next thing.  So I think that he ran mostly so that he could go to the playground.

Joshua did his normal belly button push to show me that he pooped and then walked to the bathroom.  I put him on the toilet, mainly trying to just get him used to it.  (BTW, he doesn't like going on the same toilet as Isaac, so that might be annoying for the next year.)  And he went to the bathroom while sitting on the toilet.  Hooray!

Friday: a rough day

Today was one of my more annoying days.  Let's just face it...it happens.

It felt like Isaac was four going on thirteen.  He was rather whiny and wouldn't stop asking for things even after I told him no and to stop asking.

The monitors were out and the boys love playing with them.  (It makes no sense to me either.)  But then Joshua was just getting frustrated by his side when it wouldn't power on.  There was a one minute spell when they both had them on that was kind of cool, but mostly Joshua was just really upset.

I was trying to get some work done and had four places to go today.  That's a bit more than I like, and then one of the places didn't have jean shorts for Ben and had huge lines.  So I went somewhere else, but that meant five stops.

(I went to JCPenny.  I asked a guy working in the men's section if they had any jean shorts.  He didn't seem too sure but then pointed to these.  Yeah.  Can you see Ben in those?  It turned out that there were normal jean shorts about 4 yards away, but I didn't see them until we had paid for other shorts.  So we grabbed them and got back in line.  They didn't fit.  (But the first shorts did, so we're still in business.)  While we were at JCPenny Joshua was just starting to wander off so Isaac grabbed his hand.  It was cute.  Then later, when we were in the line the second time, Joshua didn't want to hold my hand so I gave him the choice of my hand or Isaac's.  He chose Isaac's, who of course wasn't interested by that time.)

By dinner time I was done and told Isaac in no uncertain terms that he could eat off the slightly broken plate or not eat.  Ben proceeded to ask if I needed to eat alone.  I declined the offer, but did pretty much ignore everyone for the hour before bedtime as I tried to finish stuff up.

Isaac did pick a bunch of nice dandelions for me today.  It's rather sad that they wilt within hours as I do find them rather beautiful.  Oh, Isaac also really wanted me to take a picture of his milk with the cap upside down.  He asked yesterday too, so I figure it really was interesting to him.

Thursday: who wore it better?

Isaac or Joshua?  (Joshua is about six months older than Isaac in the pictures.)

I was happy to finally get Joshua smiling.  I asked him to and then got a whole bunch of "cheese"-es.  He seemed to enjoy his swimming lessons, although he kept trying to drink the water instead of blowing bubbles.

Thursday: pictures

Here are some pictures from yesterday.

We're trying to get rid of our pavement (sugar) ants and read on-line that cornmeal is one way to do that.  So Isaac enjoys shaking cornmeal on the ants' homes.  I'm not sure that he tends to shake enough to make a difference, but sometime when it isn't going to rain we'll make bigger piles.  He enjoys doing it and I don't have to worry about harmful affects (to medium to large animals) so it's a win-win.

Joshua was playing with the shopping cart.

Today we had popcorn for our snack...our snack shelf is surprisingly empty, but it's good to get rid of stuff sometimes.  The boys thought it was hilarious to watch Flurry eat popcorn.

Tuesday: squirt bottles

Today I would like to thank Roger Drackett for inventing the squirt bottle.

The boys love them!  I was able to get a bunch of work done while the played outside with their assorted squirters.  I was thinking it was a bit too cold for squirters, but they managed not to get too wet.