Saturday: a chore

Sometimes one of Joshua's chores is to exercise the kitties.  It worked especially well today and he had quite the system.

He lured one cat into a bedroom and shut the door.  He then ran and ran and ran around the couch with a long piece of scrap fabric and the other cat would case it.  When Joshua got tired he ran into a different bedroom, with the cat following, and trapped the cat in that bedroom.  He'd take a quite break and then open up the first bedroom, allowing that cat to follow the fabric around and around and around the couch.  Repeat until it was time to be done - probably about twenty minutes or so.

It seemed like a rather effective way of tiring out Joshua too.

Friday: brothers

After being fever free in the morning, Isaac had a low grade fever in the afternoon.  I gave him some meds, but he seemed to mostly be doing fine.  Joshua, on the other hand, lost his control around 2:30pm.  Every little thing was a huge tragedy.  We're working on not crying right away when things don't go his way, but it was especially bad today.  I'm slightly wondering if he is coming down with something that Isaac or Ben has.  Anyway, they both went to bed early since no one took a nap.  Also, I finally started tracking when he went to the bathroom.  He went 31 times today.

Thursday: classes, doctor, animals, Isaac

It was Thursday, and so I taught today.  We started out with a short exam, and there were two people that just didn't show up.  I found this very odd, since in the (I think) 10 semesters of teaching the class times eight short exams this has happened less than five times.  They finally got a hold of me and both had the flu.  Yeah, the flu's rough...but it still seems as though they should have been with it enough for a short email.

I also got this quote in a summary of a video they needed to watch:

"I am starting to really see the benefits of excel. It has a lot more applicable functions to real life than I assumed it would."

It surprised me a little bit since Excel is so widely used for so many things.  But at the same time I'm glad to hear that the class is making a difference.

After teaching Joshua and I went back to the doctor due to his frequent urination.  Nothing abnormal was found in the urine, so we're being referred to DeVos for some testing.  There's an odd picture in the waiting room and Grey Bear wanted his picture next to the bear that looked like him.  (Because they both have the same mouth.)

Isaac still had a fever all day.  Most of the day it was controlled through Ibuprofen, but at dinner time he looked miserable and shivery.  He didn't have a temp, but we gave him some Tylenol anyway because I think it was the cold before the hot.  We're not trying to do anything in the next 48 hours, so giving him the medicine whether or not we see an increased temperature doesn't really matter.

While Isaac was feeling good he took a bunch of pictures of the cats with their puzzle box.  I'm not really sure which set of brothers likes it more.  I keep putting it away to save for a boring day for the cats, but the human brothers keep finding things they want to put in it.  :D

The snail, who I keep wondering if it's dead, was suddenly on top of the plants.  It even came 'all' the way out of it's shell.

Wednesday: sick

This morning Isaac wasn't feeling great and he was complaining of a headache.  He never acted completely normal, but got a little bit close and chose to go to school.  We told him he could call if things got worse.

Fast forward to when I picked him up.  He said he was tired.  I think he fell asleep in the car before we left the parking lot...and this is the kid that really only naps when "forced" to or if he's sick.  Joshua managed to fall asleep in the two minutes I was picking up Isaac.  He was chattering away right before I got out of the car, so I was a bit surprised.

I let them sleep.  I should also note that I got a ton done in the hour that they were sleeping.  Anyway, they woke up and Isaac stumbled to the couch.  After a show (because when you're sick you get extra screen time) we took Isaac's temp and he had a fever.  The ibuprofen perked him up shortly though.

Anyway, Ben's been under the weather with a nasty cold and so is going to stay home with Isaac tomorrow.

Tuesday: puffy puffs

Today was a pretty normal day.  Except that Joshua talked about 'puffy-puffs' for pretty much the entire ride home.  (Including after we picked up Isaac.)  All these puffy-puffs are are a small flavored rice cake in a special shape.  They apparently made a large impression on him today.

Monday Monday

Today was a pretty normal day today.

We got groceries, went to gymnastics, and built a fire plane.

We went to karate and had dinner.

The kitties enjoyed watching some birds and hugging Ben's arm.

Saturday: relaxing

Today was a good day.

The kids played together well and a lot.  This meant that I got a bit more work done than normal. 

Tornado tried to help.