We tried an orienteering course today. It was a fun time, but only went ok. Some posts were really easy to find and we got them easily. Other ones we couldn't find at all...but since we could get some of them, I feel like our methodology was sound. It was also at the sledding hill, so the kids ran up and down it a few times until Joshua got hurt.
We had to stop at Meijer, and the south side Meijer made more sense to go to. Mom always parked by G, so I obviously needed to do that too.
Today was a pretty good day. As I was relating my day to Ben I realized I didn't get a lot of stuff done that was on my list for today. Although that's pretty normal for the summer, it felt like even less than normal.
However, I did get a lot of stuff done with the kids. Joshua's twinkle lights are up. Isaac and I finished another Minecraft set, and in doing so found all the missing pieces to the first set we did. I'm happy because the missing pieces are found! However, I'm also a bit grumpy about it because it was a little annoying to look for all those pieces earlier. We also cleaned the basement in advance of some guest coming.
Some guests came in the afternoon. Natalie and I played several games while the kids played with Legos. Joshua said he only had an ok time, but he seemed to be rather involved the whole time. Isaac got into the play too and seemed to enjoy himself.
Joshua finished out his birthday month with a party with the grandparents. He did an amazing job helping get things ready. He was happy to help with the cleaning, even doing some without any prompting. He also cut all the strawberries.
Today was less annoying, although still not as amazing as most days. I suppose that it was a normal amount of annoying, but the rest of the day was rather boring.
We'll try again tomorrow.
Amy and Brian came over for most of the day today. We've been playing games with them about once a month so it wasn't the "catch up for the last year" that it sometimes is, and that was really nice. We played Space Base and Isaac joined us...and won. After lunch we went outside. The kids played in the water for several hours. The adults mostly sat in the shade enjoying our time together. It was a beautiful day and very pleasant to be outside. Near the end we wanted to play a game but there was still a child swimming. So we did the responsible thing and played a game on our phones so we could still watch the child. It seemed a bit silly, but at the same time was just want we needed.
Isaac took the pictures for a time stop earlier this summer. We finally got the stop motion video put together.
