Sunday: trapped

A little before lunch time, there is a bunch of giggling upstairs.  After a bit Ben and I come out of the office only to see this:

Oh no!  We're trapped!  How are we going to make lunch?  Well...we then hear some little voices that they are making lunch.  (There is a summer challenge: make your own lunch.  Then I'll take them out for lunch another day.)  Isaac made the sandwiches (and Joshua's cereal) and Joshua made the crunchy beans and was the communicator.  The nutella on the top is an M and a D so we know how whose is whose.

After getting the sandwich, I opened it up to see how well the stuff was spread.

Well, the peanut butter was spread very well.  But...there wasn't very much of it.  And there wasn't jelly or nutella.  The bites with nutella were good, but the rest of it was a bit...bready.  We laughed about it a lot and decided we needed to still eat it.

Later I came upstairs just as Joshua was having a minor emergency in our bathroom.  Only there was a problem...

...well, the mother in me climbed over the obstacle because a kid needed help.

Memorial Day Weekend

I'm almost caught up on our exciting lives.  Here are the pictures from camping.

First off, as always, we got stuff set up.  This didn't take very long, but still needs to be done.  Isaac was in charge of putting the cold stuff in the fridge.  He organized it very well, but not very practically. :)

Then dinner and finally ice cream!

We finished ice cream just in time for the wagon ride.  Isaac seemed less than thrilled for most of the ride, but said everything was ok.

After that they went to the playground.  They came back because they were hungry.  Then they went back to the playground.  This was a pretty common theme throughout the weekend.  Below is Joshua's sticky s'more.  It didn't go over well with him because it was too sticky.

Isaac enjoyed his a lot more.

Saturday was rather cold until late afternoon when the sun came out.  The kids did a few campground activities, but mainly played at the playground.  Ben and I did a lot of reading.  Once the sun came out we went to get ice cream and Joshua showed Ben how hard he could squeeze.

The kids played together...usually they were at the playground, but bubbles, balls, and squirters were also often used.

Ice cream! 

This time Joshua just got graham crackers with chocolate.  It went over much better.  He also got his chin scraped up on the merry-go-round.  Worthy of a band-aid, but not too bad.

We made it to mini-golf on the last day again.  Joshua did a little better holding the club but still needed quite a bit of help.  (He was at least willing to get it this time though.)  Ben got a hole in one and probably won, but we didn't keep track.

Saturday

(We also got the kayaks in the water because it was a nice weekend.  The boys did a lot of playing together today because they didn't want to clean their rooms.)

Friday: last day of 1st grade

Today was Isaac's last day of first grade!

A few days ago was the awards assembly (just for the class).  I thought it was just for a few things, but he came back with six different awards.  I might have gone if I knew he was going to get so many.

We went to the library right after school.  The car was being a bit weird and announcing the texts that were being sent too.  For some reason we decided that Ben should decide what I smell like, so he got a bunch of semi-random texts once we pulled into the library parking lot.  I really liked that I could just hit the "read" button over and over and over again, so I didn't have to actually keep saying that I wanted to smell like stinky cheese.

In the afternoon we went to a neighbor's house for some play.   On the way home Joshua tripped and scrapped up his leg, his side, and his arm.  His elbow was the worst, but it wasn't bleeding enough that I felt as though I needed to use a beach towel on it.  We made it home and he got two band-aids on his elbow and one on his side because it was right where the underwear band hit. 

Then Isaac and I got promoted to orange belts in karate!

Thursday: last day of preschool

Today was Joshua's last day of preschool.  It was a bit bittersweet since we've been at Toddlerville for a quite a while.

The last day picture.

Last getting to school.

After school Isaac came in to say good-bye too.

Wednesday: biking and frisbee

Joshua made a frisbee at school.  He came back with someone else's but I didn't realize it until several hours later.  He talked about it like it was his and he talked about it a lot.

We've also been working on biking.  Since Saturday we've done it to the end of the street and back every day.  Both Joshua and Isaac have been doing very well.  Joshua's bike is a bit too small and Isaac's is still a bit to big.  Isaac's bike will be perfect once it has pedals though.

Tuesday: bathroom

Joshua's been going to the bathroom a lot again.  It was just a little bad yesterday, but today during dinner it was about every 15 minutes.  Blah.