Friday: mop

 Ben and Isaac were horsing around, and Isaac decided it would be a good idea to open Ben's water bottle to get things wet.  So Ben used Isaac as a mop; Isaac was laughing so hard.

Thursday: behavior report

We received a behavior report for Isaac today.  This is the first one he's ever gotten, so I don't know if it's a new system or if it's just that he's never gotten one before.

"Behavior: Respectful Behavior

Recognized By: K. GRUPPEN

Notes: I am so pleased that Isaac is in my class this year. He is such a respectful kid. Today he was working in a small group that required some extra patience. He remained calm and gentle throughout the work time. I'm so proud of him :)"

Tuesday: morning surprise

When I woke up this morning, I found that the boys had cleaned off the table.  It was a part I told them they didn't have to clean up because they were still working on a project, but apparently they decided that they were done with the project and just cleaned it up.

I reciprocated their kindness by not making them clean as long for their evening chores.

Monday: photos of nothing

Over the summer Isaac colored water, froze it, and then froze it in bigger chunks.  It was getting in the way in the freezer, so I melted it today.

The tooth fairy keeps forgetting to give Joshua money for his tooth, so he finally left a note to remind me to tell the tooth fairy.

It poured around noon!  We've really needed the rain, so that was good.  It was a lovely sound.

I found Tornado camouflaged as laundry.

I was looking through my old blog pictures for my new digital picture frame, and there are a lot of Flurry.  It's a good thing the kids aren't around as much so that I get more pictures of Tornado and Horizon.

Sunday: imagination

 The boys played their imagination game...most of the day today.  Here is Isaac telling a little bit about the different things in it.

Saturday: happy

At naptime I was startled awake because in my dream I was too happy.  I've been often scared awake, and periodically sad/mad awake, but never awakened because of happiness.

In my dream I was having a dream and I was talking to an angel (who looked a lot like a normal business man).  He was talking about the amazing party that happens when you get to heaven and how happy God is to see you and I couldn't stay asleep I was so happy.

In other news, Joshua finally lost the tooth that's been bothering him.  That was happy too.  He's pretty cute.

In sad news, Isaac got completely squished by pillows.

Friday: around the house

I continued O:CtH today.  I finished decluttering the white bookshelf and most of the piano.  Part of this involved putting all the lost game pieces back in their boxes.  There was really only one game piece that was critically missing and that was found.  (Usually what happens is we find the piece but are too lazy to deal with it so it goes in a pile.  Next time the game comes out, we just get it from the pile.  The pile is actually mostly made up of instructions.)  So all that is left with this room now is actually making the bed, dusting the piano and the shelves, quickly finishing up the piano, and the game closet.  The game closet is going to take a bit of work because I really need to add some more shelves.  But the end is in sight!

I also froze some raspberries.  I labeled them "frozen raspberries" as though my future self wouldn't realize they're frozen as I find them in the freezer. :p