Tulsa pictures: Monday

Front of the house:

Movie night (Luca):

 

Saturday: hammock

The day started out playing a game.  It was on long side, and took up most of the morning.  Joshua did a good job sticking with it, even though when it wasn't your turn waiting could get a bit long.

We went to Russ' with Larry and Cheryl.  Isaac was proud of his drawing.  (It says to enter the drawing into a contest for a free kids' meal.  So far we've won a kids' meal 100% of the time we've entered.)

At the end of the day Joshua and Grey Bear joined me in the hammock and talked my ear off about Minecraft.

Tulsa pictures: Sunday

Hmm, I expect there will be a lot of extra pictures.  I'll caption them as I desire. :)  They also might not be in order, and it's a bit annoying to get them in order.

The kids really wanted to get in the pool in the evening.

The royal chairs were left open for Dusty and Laura.

Dinner: the kids ate in a different room from the adults

Friday: the day

The boys had their last day of ninja camp.  It started to pour about 30 minutes before the parent ceremony thing, so everyone was in the gym instead of outside.

Joshua's new excitement is toasting the bagels for lunch and then getting them on a plate.  He cares about it a lot.

This was Isaac's math homework for the day.  There were questions and it didn't come out perfectly, but he did a pretty good job overall!

Family pictures

 It was hard to choose my most favorites, so I just selected all my favorites.

Thursday: bike

Joshua's making great progress with riding his bike!  (I thought I snapped a picture, but it didn't seem to work.)  We put the pedals back on three days ago.  Three days ago was pretty rough.  Two days ago he put on long pants (to avoid scratches) and changed his starting style to just using one leg for speed.  He got his feet on the pedals, but didn't get much farther.

Today he got a little farther!  He started just before our mailbox and got to the opposite side of the driveway, cycling the pedals several times.  I expect that within a few more days he'll be all set.

I'll admit, I wasn't sure at the beginning of the summer if our 4x/week bike to the end of the cul-de-sac and back was going to be enough to learn how to ride.  Now I think it might be!

Wednesday: magic trick

Ben came home today and showed the boys a magic trick.  It involved spreading the cards out and telling the boys which card to pick (i.e., a four of spades).  It was put to the side and the other child was told which card to pick.  Ben picked a card and then showed all the cards that were chosen; they all matched.

Isaac wanted to do it.  Ben wouldn't tell Isaac how to do it, so Isaac spread out the cards and told Ben which card to pick.  Isaac looked at the card and it wasn't the card that Ben was supposed to pick (obviously).  The look on his face when it was wrong was priceless though.  It seemed as though he had really expected it to work.