Friday: activities

I didn't have a plan for today, so I asked the boys what they wanted to do this morning.

Isaac: blueberry picking!
Amanda: It's not quite time yet.  Soon.
Isaac: ...it's a bit expensive...but..the bounce house place?
Amanda: I had thought of that, but the best time for us are Mondays or Wednesdays.
Isaac: a new playground?
Amanda: yeah, we can probably do a new playground.

We also hit several garage sales (finding just two small things).  Then we went to Donutville because we were sort of in the area.  While we were having donuts, Joshua said, "Let's go see Grandpa!"  And so we did.

After rest time, the boys were on my lap and we were making a birthday wish list for Joshua.  I sadly didn't have a lot of ideas that I had stored away.  Anyway, we were going along and I went to the main page of Amazon, which had a moon on it.

Joshua, excitedly: A moon!
Amanda: You want a moon for your birthday?
Joshua: Yeah!!
Amanda: I don't think you'll be getting a moon.

We also had our Small Group over for dinner.  We got to the lake and the kids had a good time playing and many of the adults tried the paddle board.

Thursday: hmmm

Today didn't really work for me, again.  Oh well.  I'm not really sure why it didn't work...the boys were mostly good.  Maybe it was that I was trying to get work done and it was harder to do it without interruptions than I had hoped.

Anyway, Isaac started one of his birthday puzzles.  Joshua helped a bit, but it was mostly Isaac.  It's a bigger puzzle than he's done in the past, and I wanted to see how it would go.  Although he didn't finish it all, I think it was more that there were other things to do than he was having trouble.  Joshua is enjoying a sea puzzle, and has now put it together about five times in the last two days.

After dinner we went to Mr. Tom's beach, by our house.  For about twenty minutes Joshua would go in the water, get a can full of water, and then sprinkle the pizza he was making.  Each round took about five seconds...it made me a bit dizzy.  But he didn't seem to get bored!

Vacation Day 1: people arrive

For a week or two before our guests arrived Isaac had it in his head that he wanted to make name tags for everyone.  I was kind of hoping that he'd forget about the project, but he persevered.  He finished them up, minus names, just before the first guests arrived.

He made himself a green one with a star, since he had done all the work making them.

Joshua also showed off his sleeping closet for the next week.  It worked very well.  There was already plenty of stuff in our room (ahem, clean laundry that wasn't put away) and so it gave us a bit more room.

The first family got in late morning.  We just hung out, took a few walks, and napped until the other two families arrived right around dinner time.  By the time dinner was done it was more or less time for the kids to go to bed.  The adults talked for a while after that, but we all went to bed at an almost reasonable time.

Wednesday: story time

Story time was quite hilarious again today.  I like the new leader.  All the kids got to hold a puppet (and somehow there was enough for everyone that wanted one.)  So Joshua was moving this mouse all around and Puppy Dog had a dog and it was fun to watch.  The theme today was Scotland, so he kept dropping into a Scottish brogue.

We also had thunderstorms this morning!  And Aunt C came over to spend a few hours with the boys.  It helped me get caught up with grading (since I slacked last week) and get things around the house a bit more figured out.  Two medium sized boxes of toys are destined for donation, along with a few of the larger ones.  I didn't mark all the small kid things for giving away, but there are still some that I have my eyes on.

Tuesday: misc

Joshua made a rocket this morning.  It has a lunar lander inside of it.

I froze two containers of pulled pork.  The labels on the two lids I pulled out already said pulled pork.  Score!

Monday: no more vacation

Today was the first real day of no vacation.  I'll be honest, it felt a bit rough.  I think it is somewhat because I have a lot on my to-do list again and I was a bit tired.

Anyway, we did make it to a library event about owls.  I think Isaac enjoyed it, but Joshua got bored half way through and just played under my chair for the rest of it.

The boys went up to feel some thing individually, but ended up next to each other as they were waiting.  I like how Isaac's arm went around Joshua's.

Sunday: upstairs church

Joshua moved from nursery to upstairs church (3&4yrs) today.  I know it's a bit early, but I got an email last week that summer might be a good time to move him up.  Isaac said that he'd be fine with Joshua joining him and Joshua wanted to go.  They both had a good time.

Joshua was also very excited to see the "big" bed in his room.  He looks so small in it.

Isaac wanted to sleep in the closet tonight.  He called the closet his hideout.  Guess he enjoyed it. :)