Friday: GR Children's musuem

Today we went to the Children's Museum with Dad, Pat, Landon and Greyson.

Oh, but first I got this from Joshua today it is, "To help you remember that you love Dad."  I'm not sure why I need the help, but the sentiment is cute.

Ok, back the the Museum.  Isaac loved the silver mirrors outside as we were waiting for it to open.  He does obsess about his colors a bit.  If it is silver, he loves it.

This museum was a lot of fun, but there was more free play in it than Impression 5.  (That one is more play to learn.)  It was right up Joshua's alley though, and he played rocket and fire truck for quite a while.

Isaac's favorite part was the spinning wheel.  I could have spent longer there too, but was called to a fire.

I got a short puppet show.

Isaac did some bouldering; Joshua tried and was getting the hang of it but then gave up.

We played with bubbles.

And built stuff.  We built several domino runs too, but those didn't get any pictures.

The boys found the diner/construction zones and played at those for quite a while.  I was happy to have missed the diner; I get fed so much pretend food that I'm often pretend stuffed.  We finished out the trip with making some bridges.  Joshua was in charge of hammering all the bolts.

actually Thursday: this and that

We started out with a short walk with our neighbor and then playing with their kitchen.  My boys sure do love feeding me, but they don't like eating their own cooking very much.  During this time Holland Rescue Mission also came to pick up a bunch of toys.  I got rid of several large toddler toys.  The toys were loved, but haven't been played with a significant amount lately, so they can be passed on to someone who will love them better.

After that, we worked on taking the paint of Joshua's loft for a bit.  I finally found tools that seem to work well, so the boys are more willing to help...it is rather addicting to get the paint off when it actually comes off.  Then we still had some time, after playing Uno and Sleeping Queens, so I decided it was time for our yearly "clean under the fridge."  First of all, there was so much less this year...a comb, a receipt, and a magnet.  The boys are getting older.  Secondly, after I pulled out the fridge they pretty much took over.  I finished a small part at the end, but they did most of it.  I guess behind-the-refrigerator is a cool place to be.

Joshua still loves playing with Voltron.  During rest time I heard him say, "dear lion, please help us find a trick to poop on the bad lion's head."  I can't remember what the context was, but it was still hilarious.

I gave blood today.  The needle poke hurt more than usual, but it also seemed to go faster than usual.  I was in and out in about thirty-five minutes.

Thursday: around

Today we stopped by Hope College.  I confirmed that over the summer CIT upgraded all the computers to Microsoft Office 2016.  This is a bit of a problem as I ordered the 2010 book again.  Now, it isn't a huge problem because there are only a few things that really change, but...it would have been nice to have been notified.  I was hoping to keep using 2010 one more year and then jump to 2019.  Students have been doing their homework on 2016 for quite a while, so I think we're going to use 2016 and deal with any problems as they arise.  I've also been using 2016 at home, so I more-or-less know my way around it.

We also finally took pictures of Joshua's quilt and picked up a card holder for him.

We played one round of sleeping queens and one round of Uno.  Uno was a bit more fun because Uno is much better with three players, but Joshua only tolerated being on his own team, even with a lot of help.

We've been reading "The book with no pictures" a lot lately and at one part I have to say, "my head is a blueberry pizza."  So today we made a blueberry lemon pizza and it was delicious.

Note the flashlight.  In the middle of baking the light bulb on top of us burned out.  Joshua immediately said, "I got it!" and ran off.  I had no idea what was going on.  He returned with his flashlight so that we would have enough light.

Let's see...we have a broken house and splash pad on the table, a cruise ship over to the side, and a playground next to Joshua.

We got some fish.  The yellow one is Isaac's and the working name is "Yellow" and the red one is Joshua's and it's name is "Sea Patrol."

The other arm of Voltron was made tonight.  This has provided hours of entertainment, especially for Joshua.

Monday: busy day

We had a busy day today.

It started at Crazy Bounce.  The boys put this at the top of their list of things they wanted to do this summer, and we finally made it.  There was bouncing.  There was crazy.

We came home for screen time and rest time.  Haroldina, my mouse, had her birthday party.  Apparently she was supposed to have it yesterday during the birthday party time but somehow she didn't.  I guess yesterday she played too much and so didn't do any eating.  From Isaac's mouse, Mouse, I got a rainbow power.  From Joshua's mouse, Puppy, I got fire power.  After eating we went to fight a birthday boss.  Joshua had been very concerned all day that we wouldn't do this.

We went to the playground.  Isaac mainly did his own thing...even Joshua didn't follow him around as much as normal.  But Joshua played with our friends a bit.

Both boys were quite tired by the time we left.

It is also the release of the next Warcraft expansion today!  Here is Amalle by a broken down robot.

Sunday: froyo

It was enjoyed by all.

Saturday: made it

We made it through the day.  Joshua was extra...grumpy.  In retrospect we probably should have gone out of the house and done something.