Wednesday: marble mazes

This morning Joshua and I went to the downtown game store while Isaac was at gymnastics.  They have a back room with lots of demo games.  Joshua didn't really get into it as much as I was hoping, but we did pass the whole 40 minutes there.  He enjoyed doing one game with a slide in it.  He says "Hop, hop, whee!"



I finally took a peak in Isaac's classroom too.  There are uneven bars, a low balance beam and a tall one, lots of mats, and a little trampoline.  It's nice to have a bit of an idea of what's there.

The activity of the day was to make marble mazes.  It didn't take as much time to make as I was expecting, but that's not always bad.  They're in Isaac's bedroom for now...I expect we'll play with them a bit this week and then they will go away.





Oh, and I learned at lunch today that dirty gems need to go in the sparkler upper.  Then they will be sparkly again.

Tuesday: continuing on

We took the tape off the art from yesterday.

Isaac went to gymnastics.  He didn't come out quite as excited, but told me more about what he did.  Somersaults, log rolls, and laughing at the teacher by the monkey bars.  (Monkey bars?  I wonder it if it is really a different kind of bar.  He's mentioned a high one and a low one, so maybe he means uneven bars.)

Joshua had a low fever at noon.  I gave him some meds and he was good to go...he didn't have one at bed time by when the medicine would have worn off, so I think we're over it.

Monday: an odd day

Today was odd.  It started out rather normally and we went for Isaac's first gymnastics lesson.  He seems to have liked it; they didn't let parents in during the lesson though.  He said he liked it and the second thing he asked is if we could come back tomorrow.  I have found out that he didn't like the monkey bars or the trampoline, but I haven't found out what he did like.  I haven't been in the room, so I don't even know what the options were.  But he enjoyed it.

During the hour Joshua and I went to a nearby coffee shop and got a donut.  We watched some construction while eating it.

And then Joshua came down with a fever as we were leaving.  I had forgotten that he probably had one the night before, or that he woke up in the middle of the night and I gave him more medicine.  (I know, things I should have remembered.  But he woke up fine.)  By the time we were home it reached 104.0.  It came down only a bit so I then gave him Tylenol too.  I could tell when that finally kicked in because he started commenting on the TV show that he and Isaac were watching.  He still had a fever, but was better.  Joshua actually had a fever the rest of the day, even drugged up, so we'll see how tonight goes.  Surprisingly, he still ate a lot.  It was only Cheerios, but it was a lot of Cheerios.

Our activity of the day was to do some painting.  Joshua enjoyed getting the paints out and painting for about two minutes, but then he was done.  I probably would be too if I wasn't feeling well.  Isaac enjoyed it much more.

Tomorrow we'll take off the tape and see what they end up looking like.

Sunday: made it

Phew, we made it through today.  Ben is still recovering from a weekend bug - nothing serious, but annoying, I was tired and therefore grumpy, Joshua was weird tonight.  Oh, Isaac was surprisingly sad because he didn't get a bath.  Joshua had dumped carrot puree all over his head at lunch and needed one, but then I emptied the tub because I didn't think Isaac wanted one.  Turns out he did.  He really really did.  I think we compromised on a long bath tomorrow before dinner.  I'm rather excited about this compromise, actually.

But the house is more-or-less clean for a few hours, so that's nice.  We also got a few random chores done, including moving the extra food supplies from the basement to the front closet.  I'm rather excited about the move.  It turns out that we have five boxes of pasta.  That's just the "extra" pasta; I'm sure there is a box in the kitchen too.  We also have four boxes of graham crackers, but we go through a lot of graham crackers.

Scene: eating dinner while watching a TV show.  We've been watching for about five minutes.

Isaac: One and one are annoying.
Amanda: um, ok.
Isaac: They can either be one plus one equals two or one one for eleven.  It's annoying.

I was going to write about my thoughts on the road construction, but I'm sure I'll have many more days to do that.  This one was too cute.

Thursday: last day of school

Today was the last day of school.

Since everyone else is doing it, here they are at the beginning of school...

Haha, when you've been in school for the last nine months and you're only 22 months old I guess that is a large portion of your life.  Joshua grew hair!  I think Isaac looks quite a bit older too, but some of that could be the stance.

Wednesday: talking, geocaching

Today we went to a speech pathologist in the morning.  Isaac has had problems with s blends, and sometimes we notice that other people can't understand him very well.  Well, she said that he was right on track.  S blends (sh, sp, sn, etc.) don't always come until 7yrs old.  The other sounds were good, and his vocabulary and communication skills were good.

We came away with a few things to help with the s blends.  The cutest moment was when we were getting ready to leave and she asked if I had any more questions.  I said no, but Isaac said there was one word they hadn't covered.  So he told her that he was having problems with "top light."  She looked at me, I interpreted, and they went through how to say "stop light".  I was pretty proud of him for asking about it; it's one of the words we've talked about in the car.

After that we went geocaching with Betsy and her kids.  Well, we tried.  There were a ton of options in Paw Paw park, a new park to both of us, but most were hard to find/unfound for quite a while/in the middle of tall grass.  I should have looked harder at the options there, especially since it was their first time and we haven't done it all that much.  But we did explore a new park and that was fun. Isaac and Joshua both picked up some rocks.