Tuesday: important questions in the middle of the night

Last night I was in the guest room.  It was a good thing, because I found Grey Bear!  He had been lost for a few nights.  I said, medium loudly, "I found Grey Bear!", trying to tell Ben.  When I brought him into Joshua's room he was awake and wanted to know where Grey Bear had been...I forgot he's such a light sleeper.

Fast forward to the middle of the night.  I hear footsteps.  They come to my room.  

J: "Mom are bears still in real life?"

A: yes.  (And go back to sleep!)

J: are they on trails?

A: (how can I answer truthfully but do that he still goes back to sleep?). Yes, but not the ones we go on.

J: ok.  (And he goes back to sleep)

Sunday: shennigans

Isaac and Joshua built a "wall" so that Ben wasn't able to come upstairs for dinner.  They were so excited...they had even blocked both sides of the entrance to the stairs so that he couldn't get to the stairs directly from the office nor if he went the long way around through the bathroom.

They forgot Ben and I are always on the same team.

Ben texted me, asking for his shoes and that I unlock the slider.  I snuck his shoes down while the boys were figuring something out upstairs.

At dinner, the boys were super excited to watch how Ben couldn't come upstairs.  And then they were super shocked when Ben went out the basement slider.  A lot of yelling happened.  Isaac ran to the front door, only to realize it was locked and Ben wouldn't be able to get in.  He was just starting to run to the slider as Ben came in, all ready for dinner.

Saturday: normal day

It was a normal Saturday!

The cats watched the squirrels, and the boys played some sort of game.  Actually, they played several games.  One involved taking out all the books from Joshua's room and putting them in Isaac's room.  It was rather silly, because then they had to clean them all up and that was not as fun.

Friday: surprise

Joshua and Isaac have enjoyed some wands and they are hidden.  I don't know where they all are.  I thought that two of them were in our bedroom, so I conned Joshua into helping me clean our bedroom under the pretense of looking for the wands.

(Side note: If I give my wand to the boys I can become a good guy.  I've decided to join the cats' team so that I can still be on Ben's team because apparently Ben hasn't earned his spot on the boys' team yet.  I'm 100% going to take up that offer.)

The other part of the plan to help look for the wands was to move all the furniture.  Ben and I had jokingly discussed this a few nights ago, as we were wondering why our quilt has been sliding down the foot of the bed.  Ben mentioned that we should flip the bed around so that the quilt slides up instead.  I took that as approval that I could move the furniture.

Is it completely clean?  No.  But I did move quite a bit of stuff that didn't belong in our bedroom to a different place.  The easy to clean stuff has been taken care of.  As with all clean rooms, it feels better than it did.  Oh, and we found one of the two missing wands.

In other news, I got Joshua to do the penguin dance that he does at school.  It's like 'Father Abraham' in that you keep adding different body parts...so Joshua did the last part when all of the body parts have been added.  (There's also a real possibility that I should have cleaned the kitchen instead of the bedroom, but the kitchen always needs to be cleaned.)

Thursday: breakfast

It was a pretty normal day today, but since I needed to drop Ben off at his car in the morning we first went out to breakfast.

Well, first we dropped off the boys.  Ben got to enjoy being loved "infinity carrot infinity" and got to see the 'I love you moose' dance.  When we were walking Joshua in Joshua ran up to take Ben's hand and gave him the largest smile ever.  Joshua was so happy that his dad was dropping him off too.

And we had a rather nice breakfast.

update: success!  The cats have slept with Joshua a few times (much to his chagrin), but they've never stayed with Isaac (who really wants it).  Ben's been on a campaign to get Tornado to stay with Isaac and it finally worked.

Wednesday: busy day

Today started with plans to get many small chores done, go to karate, go to lunch, and take a nap. 

I did get my many small chores done.  There were a lot of really short things on my list that were taking a while to actually finish.  Tornado followed me around and it was fun.

I went to karate (11-11:45m), and then got a call from Ben that his appointment got moved up to 12:30 and I needed to be there.  (Well, there were some other options but they weren't as ideal.)  I scrambled to get there and, as normal, they were running late.  Well, we did that, picked up a very late lunch, ate it while waiting for a train, was at home for five minutes, and went to pick up the kids.

I was rather tired so I gave the boys extra screen time and took a nap.

I had a hard time waking up.  I fed them dinner though.  I felt oddly proud of myself for feeding them.

Then Dad came over to change out the garbage disposal.  It went pretty well.

I picked up Isaac from cadets and got the kids down.  A successful day, although rather crazy.

Tuesday: 5.5

Today was Joshua's 5 1/2 birthday and I think he enjoyed it.  We brought in some (store-bought) cookies to school and he said that everyone got 5, along with a larger oatmeal raisin cookie (that they were going to have for snack anyway).  I thought there was going to be a hat, but I guess that didn't happen.

After picking up Isaac we got our Valentines.  They both chose Sour Patch Kids.  Maybe because they've been talked about recently on the podcast that we're listening to?  Or maybe they just like them.  Isaac also got some more perler beads...it surprised me a bit, but he was fine with buying them himself.

And Joshua got his cake.  It took him about one breath per candle to get them all blown out.