Monday: today

As Isaac was leaving for school, he said, "I figured out a way to break the bottom of the world."  Ben and I were rather surprised, and Isaac continued on.  We quickly realized that he was talking about Minecraft.  Phew...

I put on some Christmas music this morning, and Joshua decided that meant he should have a Christmas party in the family room.  He brought all his toys out. *sigh*

This evening I went to the exercise class again.  Isaac and Joshua also wanted to exercise, so Ben made some fun exercise games for them.  They had burpees that included clapping, bring the Lego to another box, sort the Lego, make a basket with a basketball and then tag the other person in.  It sounded like they had a great time.

When I got home, the first thing I heard was Joshua calling, "mom? mom?"  After taking off my coat and went to see what was up.  "If Evelyn has a sleep over here, she'll need to eat breakfast here too."  I'm glad he's looking out for his cousin.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.