Saturday: arrived

We arrived at Tulsa!  Besides a torrential rain while we were driving to the hotel and our room not being ready, it was rather uneventful.  (There was so much flooding.  I know it was a really hard rain, but it seems like 12 minutes of rain shouldn't flood the highway... Unless it's been really rainy?)

We did have plenty of time throughout the day, so we made the boys lead us to our next destination often.  They weren't too bad, but do need some practice.

We had ice cream while waiting for our hotel room 

Friday: normal

It was a rather normal and really, rather boring, day.  Packing is almost complete.  The house is sort-of clean.

Thursday: optimal timing

Yesterday I had an ortho appointment because my fixed retainer broke after 20 years.  I was hoping they'd just be able to glue it back in place, but that wasn't the case.  So the removed all of it and I scheduled another appointment for today to get a new one in.

During that time day between appointments I had a dentist appointment.  It was scheduled six months ago, and just happened to fall during the time I didn't have the retainer in.  It's always hard to clean by those teeth, so getting a good clean was ideal.

Wednesday: errands

We had three errands today.  A brief ortho appointment for me, some groceries from Meijer, and a stop at the bank.

While walking into Meijer Joshua clearly declares that he's sick of errands and wants to go home.  We had been at them for all of 20 minutes and he got to have screen time for fifteen of those minutes.  I rolled my eyes.

The pony is back up at Meijer. I didn't have any pennies and so said we couldn't do it even though Joshua had been looking forward to it the whole trip.  He was so calm with the change in plans though that we got some pennies from the car and went back in.

Tuesday: donut tour -Dutch Delight

After the last swimming lesson we got some more donuts.  I'd say the donuts were fine.  The chocolate one was quite good.  The lemon one had too much filling in it.

Really, one of the best things about this bakery is that they're rather close.  If Joshua ever figures out how to use his pedals we could easily bike there.  (I think he's close.  But that jump from a balance bike to actually using pedals is a bit daunting.)

I also finished my puzzle.  The colors were boring, but there's a lot of detail that made it easier.  Oddly enough, the last 50 pieces gave me the most trouble.  They could all fit in somewhere, but they just didn't go in very quickly.

Monday

 Joshua: what kind of pokemon is a pass-a-chick?

Amanda: uh, that says 'psychic'

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Joshua wanted to try programming too, so I at least got a scratch account set up for him.  I don't know how well it'll go, but it's worth a try.  Below Isaac was helping him out with a question...it seemed rather fair since Ben has helped Isaac out with so many problems.

Saturday: news

The day was pretty good, for the most part.  Isaac coded up his first, "Hello world!" (in Java).

But then, at the end of the day, we received disappointing* news as some of our friends now can't join us for our trip.

*disappointing rather understates it