Thursday: Isaac doctor

Isaac went to the specialist today because of his cough.  Of course, Ben and I haven't heard the cough in the last week and a half.  I called and they said to still bring him in though.

An allergy test was done.  As expected, Isaac is not allergic to anything.  (This was expected because the allergy medicine didn't help.)

We're left with two options, both of which are hard to diagnose.  1) a habitual cough or 2) a periodic asthma induced cough.  This is different from normal asthma, as something will trigger it, the person will have a cough for a week or two, then it will stop until it is triggered again.

Anyway, we have an inhaler if the cough comes back to try.

Joshua and I brought Ben to a doctor's office today...

Joshua: Am I going to get a sucker?
Amanda: No.
J: Are Mom and Dad and Joshua going to get suckers?
A: No.
J: Yes or no or maybe?
A: No.
J: Yes or maybe?
A: No.

Tuesday: snow day

Isaac had a snow day today.  I'm not really sure why; there was a lot of snow, but only 5-6 inches and it was light and fluffy.  I think I'm more annoyed that it fell on a Tuesday than the fact that he had a snow day;  everyone works on Tuesdays.

Anyway, Ben ended up staying home and having a snow day too.  Isaac had a great time: extra screen time, bringing treats in to Ben's work, and going out for lunch.

Saturday: the day

The latter part of the morning was spent cleaning, as normal.  Well, Joshua didn't clean.  He finally spent the fifteen minutes needed to do it when Ben and Isaac were going to play Minecraft for screen time and he realized he wanted to do that.  Anyway, I put all the Legos that were on the table away.  Yay!  I had a table again! ...for about 30 minutes.  Oh well.  Joshua enjoys them, so that's good.

This evening we did our big puzzles.

Friday: fire plane

Joshua again didn't sleep all that well last night.  He woke up early.  I went in to see what was going on and he wanted to see his fire plane.  Well, we had told him last night that he could see it, so I got it down and went back to bed.  He looked at it all day...he so excited about it, but didn't do any extra work to earn money for it.

Joshua played with Legos a ton today.  The fire engine that he got for Christmas is still used all the time.  He also got out his tree house and a Lego robot.  They were all in a story together, but I'm not sure what the story was about.

Thursday: snow

It snowed today!  I wasn't expecting it for some reason.  It was also rather cold.  The radio said that later tonight it would get into the low teens...and I looked at the thermometer at it was already 11deg.  I'm glad of the snow not only because I like snow, but also because I got new snow tires a few weeks ago and was hoping that they would be used.

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Last night Joshua didn't sleep well last night.  He made noise about ever 15 minutes for several hours.  He didn't really want anything, but sometime was wrong.  At one point Ben turned down Joshua's lamp and a minute later we hear, "Da-ad, it's too dark to sleep!!"  We rolled our eyes.

Wednesday: a normal day

Today was rather normal.  We did some work.  We did some play.  We went over to a friend's house for a little bit, which was very nice (and got us out of the house).

Isaac made this donut in class and for some reason it ended up in his backpack when it was supposed to stay at school.  He wanted me to take a picture of it.