Saturday, April 19, 2025

Saturday: normal-ish

Overall, it was a rather normal Saturday.  The kids both had afternoon activities, so there was a bit more driving around than normal.  Oh, I also replaced a door handle.  The door handle to the garage door has been on the fritz for a while, but Joshua was running back into the house to quickly grab something and probably torqued down on it harder than normal and ...it didn't come back to life.  It's been on my list to replace for a while, so it turns out that today was the day.  I still need to re-key it, but it is a functional handle for now.

Friday, April 18, 2025

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Wednesday: a slow day

I had a slow day today, and it ended up being lovely.

I ambled while getting groceries.  I usually speed walk groceries and it was a nice change of pace.  I also got the flowers I didn't get last week.  I ended up putting them in the cat backpack so that I can enjoy them without worrying about Horizon eating them.  Tornado seemed rather worried, but he'll get his backpack back.

I took a morning nap.

I waited patiently while the friend I was meeting for lunch was late.

I went to the prayer room at church.

Ben picked up dinner from Culver's.

And then I tied for second place in the game Apiary while still posting my highest score ever.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Tuesday: woosh

At bedtime I was pretending that I would throw Giraffe off the bed.  I moved my arm and said, "woosh."  It wasn't particularly tricky or anything like that, but Isaac looked towards where it would have been thrown.  And then looked for another second before realizing that Giraffe wasn't thrown.  

I wasn't even trying to trick him, but we both had a good laugh about it.

Monday, April 14, 2025

Monday: army man

I found another army man today!  I keep thinking that I've found all of them and then another appears.

Oh, the wifi has been down and so the picture isn't uploaded.  I guess you'll have to wait until tomorrow!

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Sunday, April 13, 2025

Sunday: I didn't win?

We played Space Base this afternoon.  You need 40 points to win.  I came in third with 42 points in an exciting, yet disappointing, loss.

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Saturday: Easter party and Lego pick-a-brick

This afternoon we went to Great-Grandma's for an Easter celebration.  It was geared a bit more towards young kids, but Joshua still did the Easter Egg hunt.  There were also some animals and we were able to enjoy some time outside.



 Then we had a pick-a-brick challenge.

Ben built a really cool robot.  It had elbows and knee joints.


I built a tower.  It was going to be Rapunzel's tower, but was too top-heavy for the pieces I had.  So then it was a Love Tower were you could go and gaze at the stars.  I used tires for pillows.  Then a corporation bought it and commercialized it so the tacky billboard was added too.


Isaac built a dangerous flower garden with a poison flower, a fire flower, a love flower that you wanted to hug while it ate you, and a tree that he just barely finished in time.

Joshua had a story with all sorts of mini-builds.  It was different from what he normally does and quite creative, but he wouldn't let me take a video of the story.  So here are my favorite two parts.

It looks like a shooting star, but it's actually a spaceship with a bunny!


The bunny's stolen car ran out of gas, so it found a wagon with an invisible horse to bring it to the mountain with the golden crown on the top.