Wednesday: shepherd and bank

All the animals from this nativity set are moving now, so it much be getting close to Christmas.  The shepheard was wanted to ride the camel for a while.

The other stuffed animals tried to get in on the action, with assorted results.

We all went to the bank today.  Before we got out of the car I said, "ok everyone, put on your masks."  Ben then made a snide remark about putting on masks to go into a bank. :D

Questions

I got the following questions from Joshua today.  (They came all in a row.)

*How far away is Pluto? 

*What was the first sea animal made?

*How many blood cells are in the body?

I got the following questions from Isaac today.

*What is the moon's name?

*How many moons does Jupiter have?

*What are they're names?

*Why do they have names and not our moon?

*Is it snack time yet?

Monday: flat gingerbread

 Joshua's teacher sent him a flat gingerbread to take pictures with.  He really got into it today.

Joshua learned to draw a reindeer for school.  He then proceeded to draw three more, cut them out, and hung them up on the wall.  Isaac proceeded to get into it and now there are six lights, four candy canes, three reindeer, two snowmen, and a snowflake on the wall.

The weekend

 Friday was hat day for Isaac.  He wore it for the initial call and immediately took it off.

Friday Isaac didn't quite finish teeth and pajamas before reading bedtime books, so he did them afterwards.  (This isn't all that uncommon.)  As Joshua and I were heading to the basement Isaac said, "but I'm going to be lonely!"  "Right now?" I asked.  "Yes."  I think I rolled my eyes.

One of the shepherd activities was dressing up as shepherds and finding stuffed animals.  They let me put the towels on for a picture, but didn't really want to and took them off quickly.

Isaac hit the jackpot with his advent calendar!

The next day he hit the anti-jackpot.

Today we made graham cracker houses.  Well, Ben ended up making a graham cracker hospital.

Thursday

 The shepard is still nicely helping the boys find all the animals.

 

Joshua was going to make a sandal for people on Golden Snake's team.  This was just a prototype.  He quickly found it didn't work well.  (I'm not sure why he was making these.  I'm not sure about a lot of things.)

I was attacked by both boys after nap by Lego items.  I told them to look into my eyes so that I could hypnotize them since I'm on the snake's team.  Joshua fell for it for a moment and then realized that I couldn't hypnotize him.

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.