Thursday: Puppy and present

Puppy wore his puppy tag all day today, even at school.  (It's hard to see, but it's a balloon held on by a small clothes pin.

For Ben's birthday I told him to take two days off of work.  Last night Dusty showed up and they have three-ish days to hang out and play video games.

Tuesday: Flurry

It is with great sadness that we decided to put Flurry to sleep today.  The lab results came back with stage 4 kidney disease and a severe urinary tract infection.  While we could have tried a few things to keep her with us a bit longer, they were really just stop gap measures as stage 4 is really to far advanced to be treatable.

Ben and I were expecting this since yesterday evening, but it still feels so fast.  I was expecting to have a bit more time with her at the end, but she wasn't feeling good.  Ben stayed home with her today and said that she couldn't lie down.  She wasn't eating or drinking anything except milk, so she got quite a bit of that today.

Isaac took the news as expected, with quite a few tears.  Joshua also took the news as expected and said good bye to Flurry but didn't give her a good-bye pet.  Isaac bounced back medium quickly thanks to Grandma Cheryl, but Flurry was on his mind throughout the night.

Flurry, who was with us for 13 years, was a wonderful pet.  She had some quirks and a few habits that we didn't like, but we were happy to have her around.  She will be missed.  A lot.

She kept us laughing even at the very end.  She was exploring the vet's office, found a hole in a cabinet door, and went right in.  There was a trash can behind the door, but luckily there was also a shelf.  I freed her, but she really wanted to go back in for the next minute.

Monday: Flurry

Flurry hasn't been eating.  We brought her to the vet this morning.  We'll find out the results of the testing tomorrow, but they sent her home with some "appetite inducer" medicine and some extra yummy food.

She ate some of the food right away and was grumpy when I didn't give her all the food.  But this evening she wouldn't eat the food.

Sunday: headphones

This afternoon I gave both boys some headphones with phones.  Joshua was listening to Disney songs and Isaac was listening to a book and it kept them both content for quite a while.  Isaac has suddenly really been enjoying podcasts in the car, which has been wonderful.  Joshua, on the other hand, is still not a fan of them.  Anyway, for Isaac's first audiobook he is listening to "How to train your dragon" and is really into it.

Saturday: lawyered

Ben and I were playing Tetris after dinner.  Joshua always roots for Ben.  EXCEPT one time, when he rooted for me.  So now I'm always trying to get him to root for me.

A: Joshua, I'm the silly person.  Will you vote for me?
J: Well...are you a boy or a girl?
A: Um, it's hard to tell.
J: Well, I'll vote for both of you!
A: Yes!!!
J: I'll vote that Dad wins and I'll vote that you lose.
A: Oohhh...

Joshua has also been working really hard on Lord Garmadon's force field.  It has a force field, a bomb plate, poison field (purple), lava field, and ...ice cream.  And if you steal Lord Garmadon's ice cream you are in deep, deep trouble. 

Friday: snowmen

In March, just after the last snow had melted, Joshua announced that he wanted to make a snowman.  It came up a few times this summer.  On Tuesday the snow wasn't good for packing.  But today the snow was melting a bit and it was perfect!  All of the snow packed onto the snowball while rolling and it was probably some of the easiest snowmen I've ever made.  

Sunglasses on both. :)

Joshua wasn't quite finished when we took the picture above.  He continued to add a few more ice chunks around the bottom as clothing.

I had Joshua take my picture with the snowmen.  I didn't see that he took this one...

 ...I only saw this one.  He tried hard to get a sideways one with my head, but couldn't get the right angle.

Thursday: turning into spiders

Today Puppy the Mouse turned into Light-switch the Spider.  (It could go back and forth between the forms.)  Then, much to Haroldena the Mouse's dismay, she got the same power.  She really likes being a mouse, but apparently to fight the Rainbow dragon you need Spider powers.

Here are Light-switch the Spider (holding a sword) and Hip the Spider.

A few months ago we ordered the green Duplos with mice.  Since we had been playing mice with the Duplos so much we thought Joshua would love them!  Well, while he was very surprised it took him a while to warm up to them and they just got used as normal bricks for a while.  Then they were pictures of Haroldena's family.  They've now been promoted to guards.  (They're standing next to water guards, by the way.)