Sunday, December 3, 2017

Sunday: the day

Joshua fell asleep during music time at church.  He slept through the whole service and I loved the cuddles.


In the afternoon I played a game with Isaac and Joshua read a book while partially under the bed.


I took a whole bunch of pictures for the DeYoung grandchild collage.  With Joshua's tongue sticking out it won't make the cut, but it's pretty cute.


Saturday, December 2, 2017

Saturday: farm

While Cheryl was eating breakfast with her favorite five year old, Joshua and I went to the pony farm.


It happens every year, but I think the last time I went I was pregnant with Joshua.  We looked at the animals and feed the goats, sheep, and ducks.




We later saw goats on the 'playground' and Joshua thought it was pretty silly.  Then we went for a hayride.  During the hayride we saw a 'big' forest in which Joshua heard baboons.

We got our donut hole and Joshua noticed that Santa was there.  I had never gotten my picture with Santa growing up, so I have never done it with the boys either.  However, there were candy canes and Joshua wanted one of those. 


We finished up the morning by searching for pennies, looking at a few more animals, and sitting by a bonfire just long enough to smell like smoke for the rest of the day.


Friday, December 1, 2017

Friday: movie

Cheryl brought us out to a surprise movie this afternoon.


It was nice.  We were also the only people in the theatre, so when Joshua was excited that the bad guy was gone and the wolves (wolf-es) were nice it was ok that he said so several times, rather loudly.

The next surprise was that Isaac gets to have a sleepover with Cheryl.  He was super excited.  He was even more excited when he found out that he got to go all by himself without Joshua.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Thursday: water

I had been planning on doing the monthly updates today, but then after I took the pictures I convinced Joshua to comb my hair.  (It's a new thing they like to do.  I rather like it too.)  Joshua decided it needed water, since I often use water with combs on their hair.  It rapidly got out of hand.

After my hair, my hands got cleaned.
After my hands, Joshua's hands were cleaned.
After Joshua's hands, Joshua's feet were cleaned.

I took a quick break at this point, and came back to a wet Joshua.





Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Wednesday: can you play with me?

While "can you play with me?" is cute and lovely, I heard it too much today.    

Joshua was also in a mood.  Maybe that was part of the problem today, or maybe it was because I would often play for a short time and then stop.  In either case, it just wasn't working.

"I DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING!"
This came after I told him I couldn't help with the Legos any more because I was in the middle of making dinner.  I probably suggested that he go see Ben.  Then he said that he didn't want to go to his bedroom.  ...ok, well, I hadn't suggested it but I guess it's good to know.  (To be fair, if they're loud or crying unreasonably they do sometimes have to go to their bedroom until they're ready to come out.  It wasn't completely out of the blue.)  Then he said he didn't want to do anything.  That was fine with me too; that way I didn't need to help him with anything either and could say yes for once.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Tuesday: fruit flies

We've been battling against fruit flies for almost a month now.  Almost every day I think it has gotten better and then the following day it is always bad again.  I've been killing them in droves, but there are always more.

I finally put a cover over the kitchen sink drain.  I kept clearing it out, but maybe there was something stuck in it.  Or the dampness was enough.  Anyway, I once again think I'm slowly starting to win over the dumb fireflies.

However, I think they move more in the light.  They're probably just sleeping now.  I half expect to change my mind about the war progress in the morning.

Monday: exercise

This evening I went to a workout class with Betsy.  I've realized that I need to start exercising again.  While I'm still not sure exactly what that will look like, it was at least a start.

The boys, on the other hand, have plenty of extra energy and movement.  Joshua wanted me to watch his dance party.  I cut it off because he had started to be a bit boring, but then he suddenly said, "Beep beep go to sleep!" and fell to the ground and pretended to sleep. Isaac saw I was taping and wanted his dance taped too.