Sunday: coming home

Amanda: Isaac, did you miss me?
Isaac: um...
Amanda: oh.
Isaac: I missed the kitties most.  Then you.  Then Dad.

Isaac: I thought you'd be more excited to see me.  (Isaac got home while I was at church.)  That you'd jump and grab me and stuff.
Amanda: Well, you were hiding behind the couch.

Saturday: with Joshua

We stayed pretty busy today.  We gave Joshua a little creative Lego set and he did two of the four animals, mostly by himself. 

Later in the day the angler fish and red fish were down in the basement and pretending to be bad guys.  Joshua had told me I was the boss, so I decided I was the bad guy boss.  I was ordering them to do assorted things.  So then I ordered them to go find another bad guy.  A red dragon stuffed animal came down, and I interrogated him:

Amanda: what is your name?
Joshua: Dragon dragon
Amanda: what is the worst thing you've ever done? 
Joshua: Been a good guy

Ben and I cracked up.

Friday: Spring Break, day 1

It was a good day.  The boys played with the marble arena for quite a while in the morning.  The suddenly it was time to get dressed and go to the church bounce house!

We came back for lunch and rest time.  Isaac also packed for a short weekend with my dad.  (He did a pretty good job of getting all the clothes he needed together all by himself!)

I got in an extra karate class due to a snafu yesterday.  Honestly, it was great because there were only two students there and we did a lot of the things I feel least comfortable with.

With Isaac gone, Joshua got to choose the restaurant for the evening.  Surprisingly, he chose Brann's (due to the candy machine).  While you can't tell it in this picture, he's trying really hard to move my arm.

And what would a special weekend without your brother look like without a sleepover with your parents?

Thursday: arena

Well, due to the beginning of spring break I brought out a new idea.

We made an arena for marbles and bouncy balls.  There has been a firm "no marbles" in the main area rule for quite some time.  This way we can keep them contained.  The boys had a great time with them...they took out several toys and played well for quite a while doing...I'm not really sure what they were doing.

Wednesday: not working

I didn't have to work this morning, which was lovely.  I got quite a bit of house work done, but also relaxed.  Tornado has finally realized that I have a nice lap too and has sat on it more often.  Not as much as Horizon sits with Ben, but we're working on it.

Joshua: 50-55 months

50 months

51 months:
He was only willing to do puppy faces this month.

52 months:

53 months:

54 months:

55 months:

The things of note (which are harder to remember when I do five months at a time) are:
*Grey Bear is no longer the preferred lovie, but it is the Pokeball from Great Wolf Lodge.
*He still has his band on from Great Wolf Lodge, over a month later.
*He always tells me that he had hamburgers for lunch at school.

Tuesday: bathroom conversations

I was in the restroom at Hope today and a non-college person started talking to me.  It was as though she knew me, but I really didn't know who she was.  We started talking a bit and I finally found out that she is one of the accounting professors.  (Keep in mind that most of my students are accounting majors.) 

She had great things to say!  How the students that came through my class knew so much more about excel than those that didn't.  How the four that are currently in the class have made such leaps and bounds forward as they've progressed through my class. 

Anyway, the conversation came at a good time as there are going to be many changes next semester due to a new book.  I think we're going to meet sometime in May so that hopefully we can better understand what the other teaches and how the classes could better interact.