Sunday: first snow

Today was our first snow!  It snowed a surprising amount of the day, but it was just flurries.

 

Saturday: Happy Halloween

 We had mummy dogs for dinner.

For Halloween we did an in-the-dark candy hunt.  I got way too much candy, but it was fun.  Isaac found a lot more candy than Joshua, but at the same time Joshua sometimes left candy for Isaac to find.  They boys got more candy than normal, but their treat boxes have been pretty empty and needed to be refilled.

Friday: out and about

Th people at karate kindly let us come to use their obstacle course again.  The boys were so excited when we pulled up.

We got the climbing wall out because Isaac wanted to climb.  But then it was Joshua that went up it a bunch of times.

 Isaac started making a fort and it was quite the thing by the end.

After that we went to the library.  There were a slightly absurd number of holds for us, but holds work so well!

Joshua played his first thumb war today and cracked up.

Thursday: suprise!

So with "all that" extra time that we had today, we moved around furniture in our bedroom.  It was super easy to get the kids to help, which was nice.  The bed went from the right side of the picture to in front of the window.  We don't use this window for much, other then telling if we should get up because it's sunny, so we'll see how it goes.

 

Both boys decided this bed-moving surprise needed more surprises for Ben!  Joshua made a little Lego boxes with messages that he tried to sound out but were completely unreadable.  (They were cute, and once we were told what the message was we could see his thinking behind them, more or less.)  Isaac made a rocket that spun around and said "Dad" on one side and "USA" on the other.  It took him a while, but it was pretty cool.

I'm not sure I love the layout, but can always change it if needed.

Wednesday: busy

It was a busy day today.  (Today's business means tomorrow isn't quite so busy though, so it works out.)

Joshua wanted to hold the cat.  I didn't see until just now that Tornado's tongue is sticking out.  That really is how he felt about the whole situation.

I had to play a math game with Joshua working on even numbers.  It was the most boring game ever, but Joshua was so cute.  He explained all the rules to me (several times) and how to make tally marks and what the diagonal one means, etc.

This picture shows my amazing multi-tasking.  I'm making soup (although the instapot and I did not get along later), proctoring an exam, and trying to help Isaac make a chocolate lollipop.  His chocolate wasn't melting well though, and I'm not really sure why.  Our microwave has been weird with melting butter before, so I'm wondering if this is the same thing.

At karate tonight it was dress up in your Halloween costume, and then they went around to different stations, did some sort of exercise, and got a treat.  It was perfect, especially since we won't be doing any trick-or-treating outside the house this year.

They also got to stay up late, in their costumes, to play a special game of Dominion.

Tuesday: pets

 Spark has faithfully been going back and forth between my night stand and Joshua's bed.  I'm starting to get more attached.  Joshua's plan might be working.

Tornado was on the ground begging for pets and Isaac was doing this awkward 'watch the computer on the desk and pet the cat on the floor.'  So I put Tornado in Isaac's lap, and he stayed for a bit.  However, Tornado's expression cracked me up..."what did you just do to me?"

Monday: reading

 I read way too long last night.  So I wore my "I read too much t-shirt", even though I had to cover it up because it's cold out.