Friday: the day

This morning I turned on the sprinklers and put out the tunnel.  The tunnel needed a rinse; Isaac didn't crawl through it as much as I thought he might though.  Joshua was the one excited about the sprinklers, but then only spent about two minutes in them.  Isaac spent close to an hour.

I was peeling paint of Joshua's lost.  He joined me for a while.

Joshua also made this puppy, and I thought he did a really good job.  It has a tail, feet, and a nose.

The boys left for a weekend with their grandparents.  I got some work done and then Ben and I went to a Brazilian steakhouse.  Usually the thought of it doesn't sound so good to me, but it did today...and it was delicious.  Afterwards we came home and played a computer game together.  I had been thinking about maybe only playing for an hour or so, but we played for significantly longer.  But it was ok, because I don't have to get up for anything tomorrow morning!

Thursday: playground

We went to a natural playground for a bit today.  The boys liked it, but didn't love it...about the same as last time.

I also finally got this photo from the birthday party.  (Photos have been slow getting into the shared feed.)  I love it.

Tuesday: 6 1/2 birthday party

There were streamers, as always.  Isaac made a "kid area" where the streamers hung vertically.  He and Joshua had a great time running through them and getting boosters.

Isaac got a bike from us.  It wasn't a surprise as he was there when we picked it up, but everyone kept pretending that he had no clue what it was. :D

And the cake!  We got it from the store because I had no time to make one, but it was an excellent choice.  Isaac picked out a yummy one.

Monday: home

I got home late last night after a lovely vacation...of which I hope to post soon.

Joshua saw me in the morning, seemed rather disappointed, and proceeded to ask when I was going on vacation again. :)  I got more love from Isaac though.

We ran a bunch of errands and then started the second session of swimming lessons.  Did I mention that we decided to do another set?  Isaac was progressing so well that we were afraid he'd lose it if we didn't do just a bit more.  I got to swim in a lane too.  Swimming is hard work, but I took plenty of breaks.

Wednesday: new playground

The local Timbertown playground was recently remodeled.  Everyone was rather sad to see the old one go as it was one of a kind.  The new one is almost as cool.  Not quite as many places to climb up, several cool new toys.  Isaac especially liked the zipline.

Tuesday: friends

Amy, Brian, their kids, and Amy's brother & family came over tonight.

The was cooler than we were hoping, but a great time was still had by all.  The kids played so well together.  The adults talked well and played a game.  And it was lovely.

Monday: marble art

Isaac came up with the idea of painting with marbles.  Well, it seemed worth a shot.  I covers some trays in press-n-seal, gave them a cup with paint and away they went.

It actually worked a bit better than I expected.  The paint isn't super runny, so they could pour the marble onto the tray without touching the paint.  By the time the marble was out of paint they could use their fingers to put it in the cup with minimal mess.

Of course, the marbles escaped a few times, and by the end Joshua was doing more playing than marble painting which got his hands all messy.  But it washed off.

We did find that the larger, heavy marbles work a bit better.