Wednesday: CAH, date

We packed a box for Community Action House today.  I expect that donating money would be more effective, but this way the boys get to participate.  They have to look through all the groceries and find the items from the list.

 
We had a small date night tonight.  It was definitely a 2020 date, but nice all the same.  I dropped the boys off with my parents and picked up the food.  While I was doing that Ben surprised me by getting the table ready along with some decorations. :)  I especially enjoyed his clothing choice. :D

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.