Monday: a sick stick

Joshua was still running a fever today.  However, once the medicine kicked in he was always back to his normal self.  I really have no idea what is wrong with him, because even when the fever has been up he's still been hungry.

I was singing a nonsense song today about sticks climbing up a clock and Joshua was suddenly like, "Mom!  Do you want to see me be a stick?"  Of course I did.  He explained the different elements to being a stick...eyes closed, hands at your sides, and feet together.

I am also rather sick, but with something different.  Allergies perhaps?  A spring cold?  Either way, my nose is plugged or running (annoying either way) and the medicine I've been trying doesn't seem to be touching it.

Sunday: Happy Mother's Day

It was a very nice day today.  There was some extra love and some good mothering dealing with sickness and bathroom accidents.

I got to sleep in, which was lovely.  Then the boys brought me breakfast in bed and some presents.  Isaac did a lot of blue things through out the day because he knows that's my favorite color...he picked out blue fabric as a gift, wore blue clothes, choose a blue background for the church gift, and colored a thing from school blue.  I got lots of hugs and kisses from him throughout the day.

Joshua only told me once that he doesn't love me, tried to give his Mother's day gift from church to Ben, and wouldn't give me any extra hugs.  However, he did fall asleep on my lap in church and came to sit on my lap when he wasn't feeling well, so we all know he loves me.  (Dumb fever.  Where did he get it from anyway?

Joshua filled this out in school.  Only a few are correct and a few I really scratched my head at.  For example, "my mom cooks the best hamburgers."  We hadn't had hamburgers for dinner for several months when I got this.  Ironically, we were having them that night.  Joshua ate the top part of the bun.  This is about what I expected him to do, since he has never liked hamburgers and I have no idea why those got listed.

Friday: oh well

Today could have gone a bit better, but it didn't go all that poorly either.

We got new sandals for the boys.  Joshua decided that meant he should wear them right away, even though it was raining and about 45 degrees.  He stayed out for about ten minutes...longer than I expected.

I got Isaac a new green ink pad.  He immediately made his hands all green for hand prints.

Thursday: raspberries

Isaac and I planted the raspberry sticks today.

The boys are enjoying building "the spaceship" (i.e. Millennium Falcon) with Ben.

Wednesday: playground, ice skating

We met some friends at the playground.  Leah gave us dandelions.

The boys had ice skating lessons again.  They were a teacher short, so Joshua was just standing in one place for five minutes.  Then he decided to move because that was boring.  He proceeded to come to me watching at the wall.  So I moved to the other side of the rink and he followed me back...several times.

Isaac did better than last week but still doesn't move much.  He needs to bend his knees more...hopefully next week there will be a bit more instruction.  He enjoys it though, so that's the most important.

Tuesday: haircuts

I cut the boys' hair today.  They've been needing one for a while, but I wanted to do it outside...it makes it so much easier.

Well, after that they continued to play outside.  They blew the hair from the deck with a manual air pump that I had tried to throw out last summer but continues to be an awesome toy.  Then the squirt bottles came out and I have no idea what they were doing, but there were wet socks again.

Monday: quilt show

Today Joshua and I finished up the raspberry plot.  Joshua finished up his stick garden.

We went to the quilt show after school.

Then we went to get some tulip pictures.  The boys...I mean Isaac and Puppy, were happy to have their picture taken several times.  (Puppies have their tongues sticking out.)