Friday: animals

Yesterday Giraffe decided to come to work with me.  

Giraffe got to come out to pick Isaac up too.

Today Tornado followed me around.  It was especially impressive when I found him already where I was going.

Only Giraffe showed up for nap pile today, but Tornado followed me in too, so Giraffe attempted to nap pile with him.  It didn't work very well.

Thursday: green route

Ben got his boot off today!  Hooray!  He still needs to wear his shoes while in the house, along with what seems like a half-dozen other restrictions, but at least there is no boot.

I had a little bit of time after dropping Isaac off at rock climbing so I also climbed today.  Isaac told me I should do the red route.  I had watched a woman do it last week and she got stuck at the top, which obviously proceeded to make me nervous.  Isaac told me to just come back down the way I went up.  And so I did.  It was a nice route!  I'm glad he encouraged me to do it, because I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have otherwise.

I also finally finished the 5.9 green route that is on the auto-belay.  The holds aren't my favorite: they are large are look like seashells.  And the worst part is that they don't have good handholds.  I ran it once and got pretty close to the top but got stuck...it was the same place I got stuck in last time.  So I did what I should do before climbing any route and sat down to look at it.  Lo and behold, I found another handhold!  There was one right around the corner that I hadn't noticed.  When I tried the route again it was so much easier and I made it to the top.

Wednesday: pictures

It was a pretty normal day today; I did the boring chores.  I did a few interesting chores, went on a walk with Cheryl, and went to karate too.

There have been a few pictures of the kids that I didn't take but wanted to share.  First we have Isaac during youth group.  I've never been in this part of the church (and I think the mural is new).  He's in the yellow shirt near the bottom right of the picture.

Every few months Joshua takes a little test at piano and levels up.  (Kind of like a karate belt system.)  I get these nice pictures every time, but usually forget to share them.  It looks like Joshua has been there for two years!  He might get a trophy too.  He really likes the trophies but they take a little bit of time to come in.

Tuesday: bike

Isaac stayed home today; I stayed home for an extra hour in the morning but he spent most of the day by himself.  Unsurprisingly, he was fine by himself.  Also, he was doing better today so he'll go back to school tomorrow.

Joshua and I went on a bike ride this afternoon.  We were going to bike to church, but then he said he needed more books so we went to the library instead.

Monday: boxes

I got rid of a bunch of boxes today!

I also got EE-oo out, per the kids' request.  I was worried that it wasn't going to work for a few minutes, but then I popped one of the batteries back in.  Oh - Isaac ended up with a fever at 4:30am so stayed home from school.  He felt mostly fine all day, but has lost his voice.

Sunday

Isaac woke up complaining of a sore throat, and after church said he had a little headache.  We had lunch, I took a nap, and after I woke up Isaac's voice was even more scratchy.  He started walking distractedly walking around the dining room.  He's a teen boy, and he does this some times.  I told him to go take his temperature - expecting it to come back normal.  Well, it came back at 100.4F.  Well, that meant he couldn't go to the get together tonight. :(

The get together was nice - it always is.

Isaac's temperature was normal right before bed.  His voice was worse though.

Saturday: getting rid of stuff

This morning I brought the futon mattress and non-working mini fridge to the monthly trash collection.  I was a bit nervous because I've never done one of these before, but it, unsurprisingly, went just fine.  And then I was really glad to have that stuff out of the house!  Monday morning I'll be getting rid of some of the other donation boxes.  Yay!

Besides that, it was a pretty normal day.  Legos, a bike ride, nap, game, D&D.