Monday: no school

 The boys did an awesome job today, but I still found myself done at 4pm.  I think it might have been the assumption that I wanted to play one too many make-believe games.  I said "later" several times, but it annoys me.  (I annoy myself and I'm annoyed by the games.)  I finally played one with Joshua right before karate.  It wasn't bad as Joshua tends to progress the games along much better than Isaac, but it was also nice to have a firm stopping point.

Saturday: Christmas 1, piano recital

 We had Christmas with Larry and Cheryl today.  It was lovely to see them.

We had a nice breakfast.

The boys went a little crazy.  (To be fair though, they had also channeled some of that excitement into cleaning up before Larry and Cheryl showed up!)

The cats were being especially friendly.

The toys were played with well for the rest of the day!

Isaac also had his first piano recital.  

Friday

 Why does he have tape on his mouth?  I had no idea.

The boys are now on Christmas break!  Hopefully we don't drive each other crazy over the next two weeks.

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.