Tuesday: and puppy dog tails

Isaac has been spending more time than normal as Puppy Dog the last few days.  (He's woofing in the picture below.)

He also made himself a tail, that he wore for the whole afternoon.

In other news, one of the sheep from our nativity is lost.  You'd think that it would be smart enough to not hide from me, at the very least.  Isaac has figured up how they get to the tall places...they get sticky feet when they have Christmas magic.

slippers

Joshua's slippers kept falling off.  Last year I sewed them so that the opening was smaller, but this year he then couldn't get his foot in them.  I was about to do it again with a larger opening when I realized I had some elastic in my random box.

So I did this instead, sewing some elastic inside the slipper.

So far it seems to work much better.  They've come off a few times, but I'm not sure if that's because he took them off or because the came off.  They stayed on through his whole nap, which was a bit surprising.

I was rather proud of myself.

I wasn't so proud of the haircut that I gave Joshua today.  I looked up how to do it better tonight though, and I might be able to fix it still.  We'll see tomorrow.

Sunday: kids

Isaac made this fun man with the Blokus blocks.  He's good at playing the game, but it's also just fun to make designs with it.

Joshua also played with his Christmas present.  When I got in from snow blowing, he was doing fine.  Five minutes later Ben came out of the bedroom and there were crayon marks all over the floor.  His punishment was to help me clean them up.

He was ok(ish) with helping right before church, after his nap was a different story.  After sitting on the floor for ten minutes we moved to the couch.  I suggested cleaning the floor a few times but he threw a short fit every time.  So we snuggled for the next half hour.  I took cat naps and Joshua just sat there because he wasn't allowed to do anything else.  Isaac finished cleaning his room, and asked to watch TV.  I told him he could watch in his room, but Joshua also wanted to watch.  I told Joshua he could watch after the floor was clean and that finally motivated him.  (I thought we had covered that at the beginning of the hold-out, but maybe it didn't sink in.)

This was our first serious non-paper incident, possibly because Isaac doesn't really like to color.  The crayon came out pretty easily, but I wish it had been with our markers because they wipe up super easily.  Oh well.

Saturday: with Ben

Ben entertained the boys while I graded this morning.  It took me a long time to find Isaac.

Joshua got his first coloring book during a Christmas party.  It kept him well occupied, but he went through many pages in a short time, as expected.

Friday: I'm joshua

Isaac: that's the boys' potty.
Amanda: Joshua, are you a boy or a girl?
Joshua: girl
Isaac: no, you're a boy
Joshua: NO! I JOSHA!!

Wednesday: brothers

I was going to talk about how I failed today.  The chex mix had all kinds of fail, I forgot to toast one of the naan breads for dinner, I failed to get Ben to suggest that we should get another cat.  (It was super cute.)

But then bedtime rolled around.  Matching pajamas.  Isaac has quite the chap stick routine lately, involving about three different kinds, but he also puts it on Joshua.  (On Joshua's face, lips, and sometimes in his mouth.)  But they do it together.

Tuesday: end of the school year

It's that time of year...

...the time when people finally check their grades and notice something was wrong with what they submitted online.  I've only been telling them to do this for the last eight weeks.

In other fun news, look at this!  Who would have thought I'd be next to my dad in this list?