Wet Wednesday and Donut Tour - Donutville

Today was Wet Wednesday.  The boys had swimming lessons.  Joshua managed to swim at least 10m by himself (and was thoroughly exhausted after it.)  BUT it makes me feel safer and safer.  He's changing from the automatically sinking if he falls in to having a decent chance of making it to a safe place.  I know that's not the only reason for swimming lessons, but it sort of is.  Joshua also had a new teacher because that's just how the schedule worked out.

Isaac continued some of his stroke lessons with his normal teacher.  He isn't a strong swimmer, but can get from one end to the other.

Wet Wednesday didn't end up being any more Wet.  There was about an hour when they could have gone in the lake but they declined.  It's not hot right now...which is nice, but not quite as nice for the lake.

After swimming lessons we started our donut tour with Donutville.  This is a place we've been to many times.  We ended up with a Vanilla Creme (Amanda), Lemon (Isaac) and a gigantic Apple Fritter (Joshua and Isaac).  I also got a chocolate cake donut as a control.

We all had a little bit of all of them.  Unsurprisingly, everyone liked the one they had chosen the best.  (Although mine tied with the apple fritter for me.)  The chocolate cake was rated as average by everyone.

Taquito Tuesday

Due to a "Funday Monday" comment I made last week, Isaac got it in his head to make special days all this week.  While I suggested "Take back the house Tuesday" (i.e., clean it up), that suggested was quickly discarded in favor of "Taquito Tuesday."

(He made a Lego taquito in the picture below.)

 It was a busy day.  By far one of the busiest we've had a in while.  We attempted to get a new life jacket but decided against it.  Isaac and Joshua were with Cheryl while Ben and I had a meeting.  (Ben and I also had lunch together, inside a restaurant!  It's the first time I've eaten inside for a year, and it was cold.)  I picked up the groceries.  I brought the groceries home and picked up Isaac and Joshua.  I waited for my headphone replacement to be delivered, since they wouldn't just leave the box at the door.  Isaac had piano lessons.

Phew.  We then had our taquitos and the boys played in the lake.  It was cooler today though, so it didn't last quite as long.

Monday: Playground tour: Eagle Crest

There wasn't a ton of time this morning, so I thought we'd hit up the Eagle Crest playground.  Joshua mentioned wanting to go recently, and Isaac was surprisingly excited when we pulled into the parking lot.

It ended up getting a 19.5/25.

Isaac: 6 - "it is very spread out."  (I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing.  I expect the low score is because he's used to it and while it was nice to be there without other kids, he's fully explored it.)

Joshua: 9 - "It gets boring after a while."

Amanda: 4.5 - good seating, no bathrooms.

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The dishwasher got installed today!  Joshua is oddly excited about the top third rack.

Saturday: Playground tour: Rose Park

We started our summer playground tour today.  Ben and I both woke up too early (again :s) and so we were out by 8am.  It was a beautiful morning though...cloudy and about 70F.  Much nicer than the last two days.

It was an excellent playground!  A bunch of new things to play with and large.  

It was decided to rank all the playgrounds.  Isaac and Joshua both get 10 points and I get 5 points.

Joshua: 9/10 "It was so fun I got hungry."  (That is literally what he said.)

Isaac: 9/10: "There was a slide that was more like steps."  (Isaac was debating giving it 10 points, but apparently 10 points is a really high bar.  The slide mentioned was in the small children's part of the playground and they didn't spend much time there at all.)

Amanda: 4/5: No bathrooms, no seating with backs.  I think there was seating in the shade, but I couldn't tell since it was cloudy.

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After we got home we all worked on our respective Lego projects.

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This evening I got Isaac on the paddleboard and Joshua in the green kayak.  It is one of my summer goals to get them comfortable on them, and I can almost put a check by that. It went a lot better than I expected.

  

Friday: last day!

 School's out!

My alarms went from this:

...to this:

So here are all the pictures:

Isaac and his teacher, Ms. Huyser:

Joshua and his teacher, Mrs. Stolz:

Joshua made her a minecraft Pete the Cat:

I made Isaac deal with a lot of his papers.  He tried to pawn it off on me and I wasn't having any of it.

We went to the library and found out that you can sit in the chairs now!  It's a new library, so we haven't been able to sit there before.  The boys tried out all the chairs.

Grey Bear got a crown!

Thursday: penultimate day of school

Today was the penultimate day of school!

Joshua had his special kindergarten awards ceremony with a Pete the Cat hat.  (Pete the Cat is his teacher's favorite, so there's been a lot of Pete this year.)  He was suppose to dress up fancy, but we apparently don't have much fancy clothes.

He got an extra award for always going the extra mile to be a good example.  He wasn't so excited about the gum, so he'll trade it in with the parent stash for something else. :D

In Joshua's party packet was some popcorn.  Somehow he talked me into letting him and Isaac have popcorn while watching a Minecraft video in the middle of the day!  I was a moment from saying no, but then realized school is almost done.

This was Joshua reading to Grey Bear and me.

Wednesday: the downs and ups

The day started with an up: Joshua didn't wake us up early because he couldn't find his beans.  He did eat his two beans last night that he "had to eat if he ever wanted to eat again" and I was very clear with him last night that he had to eat them before a granola bar and he should not wake us up due to problems.

Another up: he ate them.  It took drinking two fizzy waters at the same time and a bunch of terrible expressions, but he ate them.

The down: the installers weren't able to install the dishwasher due to the wrong hoses / hoses breaking.  Apparently it was up to me to get the right stuff, so they left the dishwasher and will come back another time.

An up: Ben and I were both able to virtually attend Isaac's award ceremony this year.  Unsurprisingly, he got an award for math.

The down: I had a really hard time motivating myself after nap/rest time.  I suppose it was only the dishwasher that brought me down, but I just went with it and read my book.

The super-up: I went to Lowe's when Ben got home to get the pieces for the dishwasher.  I had talked to Dad quite a bit so I knew what I was looking for.  The first person I talked to didn't have a clue...they were from a different department in the aisle I needed.  But then!  The installers were in the same aisle!  They kindly helped me pick out what I needed since they knew exactly what was needed.  (I would have gotten the correct things, but the final set-up might have looked a bit different.)  This made my day.