Tuesday

 The sheep escaped outside last night!  At least there was a Shepard to help the boys find them.

Joshua has decided that his Lego set from this season should watch all the Ninjago episodes. He came out well before dinner (and was put away afterwards!)

In other news, it was a disjointed day.  Laptops weren't working well.  The children needed more help than normal.  I had a hard time getting anything done, although things did get done.  They also decided to put a Lego train track on the stairs.  It seems like a bad plan, but we're going with it.  The train isn't strong enough to climb the stairs though, so they're doing ...something else.

Monday

 We take a picture for Cheryl every day, and sometimes it tends to be the only picture of the day.

Nothing else interesting happened.  As normal.

 

Saturday: God

 We had promotions today.  Joshua is now a green stripe ninja and Isaac and I are red with yellow stripe.  However, the school is leaving their parent company so that might change.  (I don't think the move will effect us too much, and probably only for the better in the things that do change.)

Joshua: Hey Isaac, I know how God got created!
Isaac: How.
Joshua: I'll tell everyone after praying.  I figured it out as a six-year-old while going poop.  It's crazy!  As a six-year--old!
Fast forward to after prayer time.
Joshua: God was born!
Amanda: Who was his mom?
Joshua: uh, he was just born!

Friday: pirate

Isaac is still enjoying his Advent calendar.

Joshua was a pirate today.  I'm not sure why, but he was for "most" of the day.  He told me he was really Joshua, but that I couldn't tell Ben.  So I tried to civilize a pirate by making him learn to read.  He mostly did it in his normal voice, but when Ben walked by he switched to his pirate voice.

Grey Bear also got a disguise: Grey Box.  I had no idea what Joshua was talking about until I actually saw Grey Bear in a container.

 

Thursday: cake

 Isaac got some jagged block in his Advent calendar.

A bit ago Joshua got the idea that he wanted to make a cake with icing on the side.  I told him we didn't have a spinny thing to do it properly, so he made one out of Lego.  It didn't work all that well, but it turned out that the frosting didn't apply nicely anyway, so we skipped the sides.

He also wanted to put a Pikachu on it, so I mixed up some yellow frosting and he put a vaguely animal shape in the middle.  I wouldn't call the whole project a success, but he was pleased and I think it tasted good.

Wednesday: in pictures, again

 Joshua looks like he's holding ice, but they're just ice colored Legos.  He was not impressed by the Advent door he opened.  I think he's going to be underwhelmed with most of the doors.

Isaac, however, was excited and made a little sculpture.

The Christmas decor seems to have gotten a little out of hand this year, but...it's also rather fun.

Here's the 3rd grade science question that stumped the whole family: should the tiger or banana tree have a woodlands forest habitat?  (Vs a tropical rainforest habitat.)  I looked it up on-line...the tiger had multiple habitats, but woodland forest wasn't one of them and rain forest specifically was.  The banana tree didn't have to be in a rain forest, but did need a lot of rain.  We ended up asking the teacher.  She said the tiger could be in the woodland forest.  (I was underwhelmed with this assignment as a whole.  I know, trust me I know, it's hard to have every assignment be a good one.  This one gave a two random facts about an organism and then you were supposed to place it in it's habitat.  But the facts didn't always line up with helping the student figure out the habitat.)

Isaac lost a tooth!  He lost it during rest time, dealt with it, and then forgot to tell me for about five hours.  Luckily he told me in time for the tooth fairy to still show up.