Monday: kids

Joshua's been building some rather creative Lego creations lately.  They've certainly taken a turn from the 'let's put a lot of tiles on a board.'  Below is his lookout tower.

Isaac brought back his New Year's Wish paper from school.  I guess exponents are in our future again.  (We did them a few months back, but I guess he wants more.)

Sunday: the storm

The storm went pretty much as predicted.  By the time I went to bed things were calming down.  We did have lots of icicles though!

The boys briefly played outside today.  Isaac collected all the icicles and was eating them throughout the day.  Joshua tried out his new snowball maker and was so excited when it made a perfect snowball!

Saturday: normal day

It was a rather normal day today.  We could say that we didn't go anywhere because of the ice storm that hit this afternoon, but really we rarely go anywhere on Saturdays.

Legos were done.  Things were cleaned.  Screen time was had.  Grey Bear and Pokeball had some sort of competition and I heard Joshua say, "Pokeball is getting toasted!"  The expression doesn't quite transform like that, but it's still cute.  Isaac and I played a few games.  Joshua and I played a game...he won after I had a great lead but the dice hated me.  (I needed to get a red on 1 of 6 dice.  The red is on one side of each die.  I rolled four times without getting a red.  (The internet tells me there is a 1.2% chance of this happening.  Low, but not as low as I thought.))

Last Sunday: good bye

We had a relaxing morning.  The kids continued to play well together.  Isaac beat more people with laser chess.  Then everyone left right after lunch.  I crashed...it had been a busy week and the cold was coming on in full force.

(Notice the balloon sword in the bottom of the picture.  It was nice to refresh my balloon animal skills.)

Last Saturday: helicopters

Today the boys and Evelyn went to Hope to make helicopters.  Pat, Liz, and I went to the mall.  (We had a rather productive shopping trip, finding items for both ourselves and our husbands.)

(Snack time is important.)

The rest of the day was playing, talking, and eating.

Last Friday: DeYoung Christmas

We met Nathan and his family at The Good Earth.  The cousins got right down to business, catching up and figuring out who is the silliest.

Dad and Pat came over later in the afternoon and we opened presents.

Then we played with the presents and had Thai food.  Isaac was at an interesting stage of life; he was young enough to play with the other kids and enjoy it, but he also did his own thing several times so that he could play with his older toys.

Thursday: pretty normal

It was a pretty normal day.  Joshua was rather talkative when I picked him up and so I got a lot out of him.  It was a bit of a change from when I left him...he gave his homework to his teacher who commented that they needed to work on his s's.  (He turns his 90 deg.)  While she said it as just a passing comment, he took it a bit harder than expected.  He held himself together, and was fine a minute later, but there was a moment I when I didn't know how it was going to play out.