We started an instagram account for our Lego builds. Joshua is the most prolific, but I've been trying to get others in too.
Find us at itsjustanotherbrick
Its = Isaac
Just = Joshua
Another = Amanda
Brick = Ben
We were contemplating names for a little bit and poor Ben always got stuck with 'brick'.
Joshua had a great day.
The sleepover went very well. He was asleep by 8:30pm last night and slept the whole night.
Ben worked on getting Minecraft Dungeons, a game he's been asking for for about six months, up and running for everyone. We had finally found it on sale about a month ago. He was so excited. (And, it worked. Sometimes when we try to get something like this up and running it doesn't work so well, but Ben got the kinks ironed out before telling Joshua.)
His friend decided to try rock climbing after a year of periodic declines. (We didn't ask too much, but it would come up once in a while.) I don't think he loved it, but he really did a great job for his first time.
Joshua is at a sleepover tonight. We were going rock climbing right before dropping him off, but forgot his sleeping bag.
Isaac finished his first V4 in the cave and promptly fell off the route, landing straight on his back. He completely had the wind knocked out of him. He was super excited that he got the route, but he was done climbing for the day.
Since we finished a little earlier than expected and because Joshua has had a hard time actually staying at the sleepover in the past I decided we could run home to get the sleeping bag. Usually this would end up adding about 15-20 minutes to the trip, for an expected total of 25-30 minutes. An hour later I was finally pulling into the driveway. I'm not sure what was going on, but I think there was a train that was just sitting across a major road. Due to construction, I wasn't sure I'd be able to go the alternate route. I was a bit grumpy when I got home.
I got a text at 6:30pm saying Joshua was feeling a bit nervous about sleeping over. I gave some reasonable suggestions, but deep down I was thinking, "You better not come home because I got that dumb sleeping bag for you!"
He didn't come home. I also didn't hear any further updates, so am assuming that everything ended up fine.
It was a busy, but wonderful day!
It started out with TreeRunner, a ropes and zipline course, for Ben, Isaac, and me. Joshua said he didn't want to go at Christmas time but was hemming and hawing yesterday. I looked up the ages and he wasn't old enough for the harder courses, so we all used that as an excuse for him to not go. In hindsight, I think it was the correct decision. Even if we had waited until the end of the summer when he could have gone on a third tier course with parents, he would have struggled. (For perspective, we only went as high as the third tier courses. There were some large steps.) He will enjoy it more in a few years.
Anyway, I only embarrassed myself once by forgetting to put the zip trolley on the line. I was just so used to doing the click-click of the safety loops that I forgot to add the trolley on the first zip line. The staff member was more than happy to come get me though; I think it was a nice excuse to actually do something.
The zip lines were probably the best part. The second tier obstacles were probably my second favorite part. They tended to be interesting and challenging without actually being hard...except that the safety cable was often exactly where I needed my center of mass to be. The third tier obstacles were mostly interesting, although there were a few that I would have been ok skipping.
Anyway, it was a lovely morning for the three of us doing something rather different that normal. Ben hurt a lot afterwards, but we were expecting that.
We got home and found the fiber people had ended up digging a hole in our yard. They're laying fiber down for internet, and so there have been lots of flags all over the neighborhood. I was hoping that they'd be able to ignore our yard for the most part, but that was not the case. It was pretty much what I was expecting even. So we had a reasonable sized hole when we went to take our nap, but when I woke up there was a ton of machinery in the yard and they were drilling a hole (I think). So much for being ignored.
Lastly, we went to Craig's Cruisers for Cheryl's birthday. It was a lovely time. I played a few arcade games, but air hockey with the kids was my favorite. Everyone did a round of go-karts (and it was just us, which was fun). Joshua did the bouncy thing while everyone else started mini-golf. We joined them before too long and took charge of the scorecards. I was going to give Joshua my second attraction ticket because I knew mini-golf was going to take a while, but he ended up having a really good time being scorekeeper for the kids so we just stayed with it and brought the second attraction home.
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I was exhausted.
We went rock climbing with some friends again today. Isaac did an amazing job working on a V4 in the cave - I couldn't believe that he held on as "easily" as he did. I felt like I made some progress and have an idea of what to work on next time we go. Joshua got bored rather quickly and I almost gave him permission to go get his book, but then he found a project too. He climbed (and jumped off of) a route in the alcove (formerly known as the kids' area) 200 times. He was a ball of sweat.
*I'm writing this on Wednesday, and it looks like he at least ate some overnight.
First, I get a morning hug from Joshua.
Second, I get a morning squeeze from Joshua.
Third, he turns around in my hug so we're facing the same way. He's just the right height so my arm go under his armpits, making his arms stick straight out. We have morning zombie time, where he says "brains" and I try to find something that has a brain for him to eat.
However, he will not let me take a picture of this.
