Monday: Pokeball's birthday

This morning Joshua and I made good guy towers and bad guy towers.

I noticed this warning on a new cat toy.  "Adult supervision is recommended for children under 12 years of age."   Really?  For a little cat toy?

Also, it was Pokeball's birthday.  We sang to him and everything.

Saturday: escape room

Spoilers...there are some pictures of an escape room at Out of the Box.

We went to an escape room today.  It was Isaac's birthday present, but he had completely forgotten about it.  It was a rather nice one, in that it was a bit different than your normal escape room.  You just needed to solve a bunch of puzzles (like normal) to find doubloons but they weren't all interlinked.  There were also some doubloons hidden around the room, so it was easy for the boys to find some too.  (Not that they couldn't help with some of the puzzles, but finding the doubloons in between the puzzles was fun.)

Friday: a walk

Joshua and I were on the south side of town for some errands today, so we went to a different spot for a walk/sled ride.  There was just enough snow for the sled...any less and it wouldn't have worked out very well.

Thursday: class

I made it through my classes today, but they didn't go as well as normal.

Now, that being said, they didn't go that poorly either.  There were issues were I did something wrong.  While this happens frequently, usually I can spin it as a learning experience of what not to do and move on.  This time they were a bigger problems that I couldn't solve right away.  (Still not more than a few minutes and then we moved on, but enough to disrupt my rhythm.)

The computer was acting up again too.  I had been hoping that it was behind us because it worked well for about two weeks.  Excel restarts itself for unknown reasons.  Again, it is a fast restart but enough to jar me out of my train of thought...and when it happens over and over again it's just annoying.

Then I had a headache.

We worked with bo staves in karate today though, and that was fun.  We are supposed to bring them to every class but never use them so Isaac finally asked to do it and they changed the lesson plan to accommodate.  I was surprised, but it was a nice change of pace too.

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.