Monday: the morning

Dad came over this morning to help declog a drain.  The boys were willing to help because they were bribed with screen time, but Isaac seemed much more interested in the whole process than he was required to be.  Dad stayed around for a bit for a drink...it was nice since it's been a bit since I've seen him.

Tornado really, really wanted to get in the cabinet under the sink today.  It is way to full for a cat to be in though, so I kept taking him out.  I finally put a rubberband around the knobs, like we did with toddlers.

We watched some videos about MLK and discussed how it relates to current events (BLM).  The boys lead very sheltered lives, and so didn't know about the violence at the Capitol or the election fraud allegations.  But there is some overlap between the two, so they ended up with a huge civics lesson.  I'm not sure how much they understood though.  It turns out they also don't understand the concept of social media, because they don't have any accounts.  It's a bit hard to explain the impacts of losing your social media accounts when the concept of social media is foreign to you.

Sunday: twins

 When the boys wear the same outfit Ben and I have taken to calling them the wrong name and they think it's hilarious.  They always have to find the other and they line up to show who is taller (Isaac) and shorter (Joshua) and only then do Ben and I figure out that we were calling them by the wrong name.

Joshua also finished his dragon today.  It was a big purchase that he decided to make, but he had saved up for just such an occasion.

Saturday: screen time day

 Today was a screen time day.  It's been a while, we don't have anything else to do, and it's sometimes nice to more-or-less take a day off parenting.

The boys played Minecraft the whole time.  Joshua didn't stop talking the whole time.  There were a surprising amount of giggles as the boys did silly things.

Joshua: 62 to 77 months

Ha!  I bet you thought I wasn't taking monthly quilt pictures every month, but I still am!  It's pretty much down to a science, so while the boys don't love it they also know it'll only take about 30 seconds.  Oh wow, I just looked at his height in the first one first the last one.  He grew a lot in a year and a half.

62 months:

63 months:

64 months:

65 months:

66 months: oh, I missed this one.  I remember missing it and thinking that life was just too busy and missing one month would be ok.

67 months:

68 months: first one in quarantine

69 months:

70 months:

71 months:

72 months: 6 years old!

73 months:

 74 months:

75 months:

 76 months:

 77 months:

Friday: respect

Isaac finished his NWEA today.  I was really happy with both the reading and math scores, like normal.  He also had a spelling inventory.  I wasn't so happy with that.  Isaac wasn't either.  He knew that he had a lot of the words wrong, even some of the ones that he should have had correct.  

Thursday: off

 I had a dentist appointment this morning.  It was the first one with the new dentist, and it took way longer than I expected.  It threw my whole morning off.  Then Isaac had afternoon testing, so Joshua was bored, and he doesn't always play all that well by himself.  I love being around my kids, but I don't always love playing with them.  We made spice bars, an otter attacked me, and we made it through.

Wednesday

 Tornado was surprisingly sad that Ben wasn't around today.  He followed me around for a while and even let himself be carried in one arm for a while.  Once Ben got home Tornado got himself picked up and looked like he was in heaven.

Isaac was supposed to write his spelling words in the snow, but there isn't much snow.  So he could write them on a white board instead.  I told him he could use the large white board if he wanted.  Of course, he asked if we had an even larger white board...and we do.  We never use it as a white board because it's hard to erase, but I moved the stuff out of the way so he could do his words this one time.