Saturday: yesterday

Joshua has still been all about looking at the fire plane box.  But he seems to have no interest in making the last two dollars to actually get it.  (Two dollars is not that much work.  We are being rather generous.)

So yesterday Ben said that if Joshua doesn't start earning the money, we're going to put the box back in the closet.

Yesterday at lunch, Joshua announced that he hid the box from Ben.  I tried getting Joshua to tell me where he hid it, but he kept saying, "It's a secret."  (In hindsight, he might just not know where it was.)

Yesterday night we were all talking about it, and Isaac pipes up with, "He did hide it really well!  It's not in most of the rooms of the house!"  Ben and I cracked up.

It was found this morning by the rest of the Legos.  Joshua told Ben it was just a trick.

Friday: snow day

Isaac had another snow day today!  Today was an excellent day for a snow day, and we enjoyed it.

We decided to make graham cracker houses.  Isaac's wanted to make them since Christmas, when there just wasn't enough time.  We had to go the store first to get groceries and graham cracker house supplies.  Joshua was not having it.  This is the second huge tantrum we've had this week.  I ask him to get dressed and he doesn't want to.  He throws something and then runs away from me.  (Spoiler alert: I win.)

Anyway, we finally got started. I made Joshua's and mine; Isaac did most of his.

We let them sit for a few hours.  I've found that letting the frosting harden at least a little bit makes things easier.  After rest time we started with the candy.  Joshua did his own candy.  He got many of the candies on, but if they happened to fall off he quickly decided that they just wouldn't say on and they went in his mouth.  :)

Mine:

Joshua's:

Isaac's:

After this Isaac and Joshua played well with each other...it was some kind of pirate candy land game that involved a lot of running.  And a lot of pillows.  But they were happy and content, so they could take all the pillows they wanted.

Cruise - day 7: sea day, sort of

Today was our last day on the boat.   It started with breakfast, as always. They really were delicious breakfasts...a lovely assortment of food and yummy things.

It was a day back at Castaway Cay, but we decided to just stay on the boat instead.  We finished up the last of the three detective things.  This was one of Isaac's favorite parts.

Isaac would hold the card in front of a "painting" and it would make him do a little game (pop ballons, light rockets, use a flashlight to find a clue) and then he would find some of the lost items or a clue on who was the bad guy.  Pluto elevator

During one of them Joshua snuck Pluto into my purse strap and then said, "Mom!  I don't have Pluto!"  "Where is he?" I asked.  "On the elevator."  "WHAT?!?!?!"  I ran over to push the elevator button, but since there are always four elevators in a bank I didn't have much hope the right one would come.  Well, it came right away and Pluto wasn't on it.  Joshua had been carrying it around all the time, and I didn't really want him to lose it because buying him a new one would feel like a parenting fail.  Then Joshua told me Pluto was in my purse.  I was not amused.  (Although now that it is done I am.)

We took a nap.  Joshua was super cute.

We went to take a few more pictures before our last dinner.  This is the lobby from the second floor.

I had wanted to get at least one picture with Mickey.  Since it was so close to the end there was no official photographer, which in several ways was nice.

Our dinner was in Animator's Palace again, and it was a great place to end up.  This time we drew some figures and they were animated in a short show.

I tried to get a few pictures with a few of the scenes we were in, but I'm not sure it worked.

There was a puppy that showed up on the ground this time.

After dinner we went swimming for the last time.  Well, Ben and Isaac did.  Joshua and I ended up just sitting and watching whatever was on the screen.  They went down the water slide 10 times!  (There was no line.) Isaac was so excited to beat his old record.  By the end the cast member had Isaac repeating the rules instead of him.

That night we had rough seas.  Luggage that was outside was rolling all over the place.  Hangers were banging and safes were slamming.  It's a bit too bad that it was the last night as everything was packed up instead of being able to help quiet things down.  We survived, but Ben and I were awake for a few hours.

We had our last breakfast in Animator's Palace again and then had to leave.  :(  It was a wonderful vacation.

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.