Monday and Tuesday: stuff

Monday was pretty boring and I was grumpy Tuesday, which is why there weren't posts.  There were a lot of Legos though!

Joshua made a lot of dragons.

They were both doing Lego challenge at the same time, so I wanted to give them the same thing and see the different results.  After a lot of asking, we finally settled on a bed.  Isaac made a bed with a mattress that came out and a monster under it.

Joshua made a tiny bed.

Then Joshua made a castle.  With lots of flags.

Isaac made some hearts.

Joshua made another dragon with a dragon mech.  The little dragon can take it's tail off and store it in the mech.  It can also change into a little mech and use it's tail as a sword

This is a barn for all the dragons.

Sunday: honorable mention

Joshua got mentioned in today's sermon!  Here's the video:  (the mention really starts at 30:05)

https://youtu.be/Si9Cj3x6eN8?t=1786


There's another brief mention at 38:23

By the numbers

For reference, here are the websites I follow for my COVID-19 numbers.

World: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
World/State (normalized): http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
Michigan: https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-coronavirus-dashboard-cases-deaths-and-maps
Ottawa county: https://ottawacountymi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/8e2955c071394c70a6b69aff394c1a49

It's been a depressing week or two.

Thursday: VBS, Lego

 We had a VBS lesson.  It was rather nice because it was all off-line.  (It wasn't nice because it took until 10am for the lesson to come out.)  It was Noah's story.

We were supposed to make rainbow fruit skewers.  It was grocery day, so all we had green grapes.  So we colored some marshmallows instead.

Then we had a rainbow art project.

There were lots of Lego things.

A good guy vehicle.

An ark for all of Joshua's lovies.  (This was part of VBS.)

Isaac made giraffe an ark too.

Isaac got a bunch of gold Lego pieces and made a lot of darts.

Friday: growing things

First let's look at the things that are growing on our deck:

Beans: only growing weeds.

lettuce: only growing weeds

flowers: growing well

Lavendar: I think it's just weeds

Flowers: growing well, after we got rid of the dead mini-sunflowers

Unknown: growing well.  These were growing in the worm bin dirt and I had an extra pot, so I transplanted them.  I'm wondering if they are pumpkins, but I'm not convinced.  It's a fun mystery.

Isaac: is having a bit of a hard time.  He gets to chore time and just can't handle life anymore and cries.  He's bored.  It's understandable.

Joshua: we recently started putting him to bed a half hour earlier, 7:30pm.  This has been a good change as his legs are working properly during chore time.  Today he also made a dump truck and a ghost jail, among other un-pictured things.

Wednesday: no school

Joshua decided he wanted to use one of his "no school days" today.  I wasn't sure how it'd go, but it was ok.  (Isaac also wasn't sure how it'd go and in the morning said he might do some school anyway.  He didn't.)

We went for a short kayak ride, worked on making a 13-story building, picked up books from the library, and I did some work.  We had lunch a bit early, but the day went by pretty well.

Ben went in to work today for the the first time in what...three months?  He's been there a few brief times to pick something up or whatnot, but this was the first time he was gone longer.

The boys and I went on a hike.  We found some painted rocks!

They didn't want me to pass them, so were trying to take up the whole trail.  But instead it just looked really cute.

We were back at Hemlock crossing this time and took the "easy" path.  Most of it was paved.  However, the mosquitos were the worst we've had.  Not terrible, but enough to be a bit annoying.  I had some bug spray and I'm not sure if it helped or not.

Isaac came down tonight rather sad becase he's bored.  Just bored of everything.  Doing the same thing every day.  But...it's true.  I feel the same way almost every afternoon, so I can't blame him for feeling that way.  But I'm also not really sure what to do about it.  We have good times (they ran in the sprinklers this afternoon) but it is a lot of the same.  He suggested finding a bounce house.  I suggested that he keep thinking of more fun or learning options.  A bounce house is a good idea, but I don't know where to get one.  Oh, maybe I should ask Amie!  Stay tuned.