Sunday: chocolate Legos

Isaac got it in his head that he wanted to make chocolate Legos.  (It was a small problem last night, as he kept asking and I kept saying 'tomorrow' but then he kept asking.)

Anyway, we finally got around to it.  I made him do most of the work, including the microwave and stirring and putting it in the molds.  I helped flatten the bottoms, but besides advice that was about all.  He put them in the fridge and while they did get hard already we're going to wait until tomorrow to have them.

Saturday: lunch and logic

Ben and I had separate errands this morning.  The boys were sad to see him go, even though we left about two minutes later.

The boys played with their lunches.

After dinner Ben was playing a video game for a few minutes and there was a sign in a hallway that said, "this way".  Joshua wondered why we needed the sign, since it was just a straight hallway with no other ways to go.  After some discussion I said that maybe the person couldn't see (that there weren't any other ways to go).  Isaac pointed out that if this were the case, they also wouldn't be able to see the sign.

Friday: awareness

Joshua was sliding down the steps this evening and hurt himself a bit.  I suggested we put the ice pack on it, but then Joshua complained that it wasn't cold enough.  (It's just been sitting in the freezer that doesn't freeze.)

Isaac: we could get an ice chunk from outside
Amanda: what ice chunk (it hasn't been snowy in about two weeks)
Isaac: The snow.  We could pack up some snow for him/
Amanda: What snow?
Isaac:...
Isaac: well, it should be there.  It's almost Christmas.
Amanda: it usually not snowy on Christmas.  It usually comes in January.

Isaac: mind blown.

Isaac: 86-95 months

Hmm, apparently I should do this a little more often.  Anyway, you can see the progression of this front teeth.

86 months: Feb '19

87 months - Mar 19  (wearing almost the same clothes)

88 months - April '19

(I especially like this one.  The sun was too sunny.)

89 months - May '19

90 months - June '19

91 months - July '19

92 months - Aug '19

93 months - Sept '19

94 months - Oct '19

95 month - Nov '19

Thursday: twins!

Guess who were twins today?

The difference in height sometimes surprises me.

Wednesday: shoe sizes

I would like to complain about shoe sizes.  Especially the kids' sizes.  From what I can tell, there are two different measurement systems. 

One goes:

3T(oddler)
4T
5T
6T
7T
8T
9T
10T
11T
12T
13T
3Y(outh)
4Y...

The other goes
4 Little kid
5 Little kid
6 Little kid
7 little kid
8 little kid
9 little kid
10 little kid
11 little kid
1 big kid
2 big kid...

The problem is that sellers, oh say on Amazon, seem to mix and match the size and then put them in numerical order instead of size order.  So we saw a lot of

1 little kid (this is 1Y)
2 little kid (this is 2Y)
3 little kid (this is 3T)
...
13 little kid
3 big kid
4 big kid....

First of all, it took me forever to realize what was going on.  Then it took me a long time to find where the correct size was.  I feel like I'm a rather smart person and should be able to figure out shoe sizes for my child, but I was only 50% sure that we weren't going to end up with baby shoes.  (We didn't.)  I'm also only 50% sure that what I have above is correct, but I wrote it anyway because I'll probably have to deal with it again in a few years and don't want to forget the little I knew.

Tuesday: Christmas performance

Joshua had a Christmas performance tonight.  His mouth moved, so he was singing.  I've heard him sing his songs once or twice, so I knew that he knew them but wasn't sure how much he would sing.  He never found us in the crowd though.  :(  The best part was when they were singing 'shout' and all the kids shouted.  I wasn't expecting it for some reason.

I have a few more pictures of him afterwards.  All the grandparents that were in town came, so I think that helped make it special.  He said that he enjoyed it, which surprised me a bit.  I expect the cookie helped too.

Isaac stayed home with Aunt C.  It's been a while since they've been able to have some one-on-one time together, but I also didn't expect Isaac would enjoy it.  I remember that Nathan and I had a standing "your stuff is probably really cool, but I don't really want to sit through it" pact.  (It's not that I never saw Nathan's stuff, but only if I wanted to.)