Thursday: relaxing

 Today was a relaxing day.  Joshua was happy to go on a few short walks with me, we played with ducks in the hot tub, and played a few games.

Joshua's school activity was to find a duck that started with every letter and put them in a row.  He was trying not to get his clothes wet, but after one step where he forgot he completely gave up.

Astronaut, Blue, Cheese, Donald, Elephant, Fun, Giant, Hot, Icky, Jeep, Killing, Liberty, Mom, New, Octopus, Pirate, Quacking, Rudolph, Super, Tunes, Unclear, Vacation, Witch, teXting, Yummy, Zebra

Ben went on a few Vespa rides.  Joshua loved going with him.  I...tolerated it.  I'm not in control and while I trust Ben (a lot!) it is still hard.

Isaac was not excited about being thrown in the pool, but bounced back quickly when Ben wrapped him in two towels.  He's getting big.

We looked for lizards on both of our walks, but really only managed to find one.

Wednesday: travel

Today we went traveled to Florida!  We got up early to get to the airport on time, but it did relieve my anxiety a lot.  (Although really, by the time we parked and ate breakfast there wasn't a ton of extra time before boarding started.)  We recently got TSAPre check and it was nice to not have to take shoes off or stuff out of the bag.

The flight went really fast and we arrived an hour earlier than expected!  But then there wasn't a gate for us so we sat waiting for an hour, so we really arrived right on time.  It was a little annoying, but I'd rather wait in Florida than wait in Michigan.

Once we got to the house Joshua was in the pool within about ten minutes.  He knew what he wanted!

Isaac and Joshua were also working on some logic puzzles that had a Minecraft theme.  Joshua has had this game for a while, but he's really taken to it right now.

Tuesday: now nouns

The conversation in the car today, while going to school, was slightly absurd.  The question was, "what would not-nouns look like if they were a thing?"

I.e., what would 'cold' look like if it was a thing?

What would 'however' look like?

What would 'so far so good' look like?

Monday: busy day

It was a rather busy day.  I set reasonable expectations for myself though, so I'm coming out the other end having accomplished what I needed to do.

I stayed up way too late last night reading my book.  Usually I just fall asleep, even if I don't want to, but that didn't happen this time.  A cliff-hanger was coming for the last hour, and I 1) really wanted to know the outcome and 2) didn't realize it would take so long to get there.

Saturday: Lego challenge

Today's Lego challenge theme was Minecraft, but the scale was rather large.

Ben worked on a spider.  It took him a little longer than the hour, and the finished product looks more complete.

I worked on a Creeper...and only managed to get the head done.

Isaac made a redstone piston that moved.

Joshua made a Drowned, or a water zombie.  To be fair, he had about an extra half hour because we were interrupted in the middle.  But it looks amazing.

Friday: waiting

On the days that I'm not working, I've been napping on the couch.  Creeper and Grey Bear are always waiting there for me, and I find it super sweet that Joshua puts them there for me.

 

In other news...I met someone at church today that took the class I'm teaching before I took it over.  Before I said that that was my class she said it was the most useful class that she had taken.  It was a fun connection.

We had a tune-up on the furnace today because there was an intermittent minor issue.  I pulled all the stuff away from the furnace so the technician would have room to work, but now I need to unclean the area and put it all back.  It was a weird item to put on my to-do list.  The kids tried telling me that I should properly clean it, but I told them that would take too long and I'm not on O:CtH - storage room yet.

Thursday: band concert

Tonight was Isaac's band concert.  They worked really hard on it.  Isaac had two pieces and played set for both of them.

Joshua gave a speech on his favorite snack, Cheetos, during school.