Thursday: Blue-footed

We were watching Angry Birds during dinner, and suddenly Isaac turns to us and exclaims, "Blue-Footed Booby!"

picture from Wikipedia

"We learned about them in school!"  "Ok," I said.  "You can tell me after the movie is done."

After the movie was done, he started talking about them more.  "We learned about their dance!"  As he started flapping his arms and lifting his feet.  He asked how to spell their name.  Joshua joined in.

Of course, every time the boys said their name Ben and I laughed a bit.  Like immature children.

Wednesday: food basket

Today Isaac and I went to volunteer at Kids' Food Basket.  We, along with other volunteers, packet about 550 bag dinners.  Into a brown bag went a banana, carrots, granola bar, and wrap.  Isaac did the granola bar.  He did an excellent job.  By the end he was being rather silly, but he didn't start it and he didn't hold up the line at all.  So it really just made it more fun.

Leaving we were looking at a poster and he saw some people on it..."1 in 5 people [or kids, I can't remember] in Michigan is hungry."  I tried talking to him about it.  "Do you get hungry sometimes?"  "Yes."  "But we have plenty of food.  What would you do if you didn't have enough?"  "Come here."  Well, ok...not quite where I was hoping his train of thought would go but also not a bad start.

In other news...

Both boys were sleeping in the same position last night.  This is highly unlikely because they have very different sleeping positions.

We had an upside down  sunglasses moment.  Because you need to protect your eyes in this cloudy weather.

Blue Bear enjoyed his first pony ride.  Joshua kept him safe.

Tuesday: break!

Today was winter break.  I brought the kids to school.  They were excited for their Valentine's parties.

This morning I did work-ish things.  I cleaned all my quilting areas, something I probably haven't done since Joshua was born.  I farmed some food for WoW.  You know, important things.

Ben asked me out to lunch so we went to the Wild Chef.  It was quite empty, probably because most people would be going out in the evening.  It was nice.

Then I relaxed in the afternoon.  I've started watching Travelers, and am quickly watching the season.  I also did some quilting.

For dinner we had pancakes.  I like making pancakes alone because the first few never work out quite right and trying to get everything ready while still being hot.  Isaac was giving me too much feedback on which pancakes he did, or didn't want.  After the second one of "I definitely don't want that one" I threw him out of the kitchen.  Especially since it was not that bad.  In doing so, I managed to make him cry for the second time that day.  (The first time was when I said it wasn't very nice to call the heart I made for him blah.  It was just a passing comment to me, but apparently not to him.)  I understand why he cried and I semi-quickly called him back in and we talked...both of us could have handled it better.  Luckily, he still loves me.

Monday: Duplos

Joshua made some amazing Duplo creations today.  Below is a helicopter...it does spin.

Before dinner he made an amazing birthday cake.  He really wanted it to be his birthday today.  We "discussed" it for about 20 minutes.  And I almost yelled at Ben for saying the words "cough suppressant" when he got home because Joshua heard the word "present" and almost started the whole thing again.

Sunday: reason

"Am I being reasonable?"

I feel like this is the latest I find myself asking myself a lot.  Usually the answer is yes.

It's a bit easier with Isaac because he can articulate his thought process a bit better.  Even if he doesn't do exactly as I ask I can understand what he thinks and sometimes I change and sometimes he needs to change.

It's harder with Joshua because, well, he's two.  I asked him to put his dirty laundry in the basket today.  He got the basket to his room, but then gave up and decided to "sleep."  It was just about nap time anyway, so he had the choice of going to sleep right away or doing his laundry.  He didn't choose laundry and went to the bathroom instead, which I mentioned should be done before his nap.  I did his laundry.  He was very sad to find out upon returning to his bedroom that I meant it and that it was too late for laundry.  After trying, and succeeding, in controlling how many socks he was wearing to bed he finally started to calm down.

Hmm.  We seem to be having the biggest problems around nap time.  Maybe something needs to change.  We'll see how tomorrow goes.

Saturday: winter

One of my favorite things about cold weather is the ability to put food in the garage to keep it cool when there is no room in the fridge.  It's awesome.

I took the boys to a dance party at the library today.  When we got home, they wanted to change into pajamas to be like Ben.

Friday: meh

As with all days, there were many good parts to the day.  However, there seemed to be more bad parts today than normal.  (Including me almost putting Joshua's crib side back on when I said it was nap time and he wouldn't stay in bed.)

He had this pose in the grocery store.  When I got my phone out he wasn't smiling.  Just propping his head up on his hands.  He looked tired.

We also had some heated discussions about music.  Mainly that Joshua wanted it louder and I said no.  We did find that the headphone bags work ok as backpacks for the phone playing the music.

Isaac and Joshua painted their wood letters from Wednesday.  They did an excellent job keeping the mess contained.