Sunday: made it

Phew, we made it through today.  Ben is still recovering from a weekend bug - nothing serious, but annoying, I was tired and therefore grumpy, Joshua was weird tonight.  Oh, Isaac was surprisingly sad because he didn't get a bath.  Joshua had dumped carrot puree all over his head at lunch and needed one, but then I emptied the tub because I didn't think Isaac wanted one.  Turns out he did.  He really really did.  I think we compromised on a long bath tomorrow before dinner.  I'm rather excited about this compromise, actually.

But the house is more-or-less clean for a few hours, so that's nice.  We also got a few random chores done, including moving the extra food supplies from the basement to the front closet.  I'm rather excited about the move.  It turns out that we have five boxes of pasta.  That's just the "extra" pasta; I'm sure there is a box in the kitchen too.  We also have four boxes of graham crackers, but we go through a lot of graham crackers.

Scene: eating dinner while watching a TV show.  We've been watching for about five minutes.

Isaac: One and one are annoying.
Amanda: um, ok.
Isaac: They can either be one plus one equals two or one one for eleven.  It's annoying.

I was going to write about my thoughts on the road construction, but I'm sure I'll have many more days to do that.  This one was too cute.

Thursday: last day of school

Today was the last day of school.

Since everyone else is doing it, here they are at the beginning of school...

Haha, when you've been in school for the last nine months and you're only 22 months old I guess that is a large portion of your life.  Joshua grew hair!  I think Isaac looks quite a bit older too, but some of that could be the stance.

Wednesday: talking, geocaching

Today we went to a speech pathologist in the morning.  Isaac has had problems with s blends, and sometimes we notice that other people can't understand him very well.  Well, she said that he was right on track.  S blends (sh, sp, sn, etc.) don't always come until 7yrs old.  The other sounds were good, and his vocabulary and communication skills were good.

We came away with a few things to help with the s blends.  The cutest moment was when we were getting ready to leave and she asked if I had any more questions.  I said no, but Isaac said there was one word they hadn't covered.  So he told her that he was having problems with "top light."  She looked at me, I interpreted, and they went through how to say "stop light".  I was pretty proud of him for asking about it; it's one of the words we've talked about in the car.

After that we went geocaching with Betsy and her kids.  Well, we tried.  There were a ton of options in Paw Paw park, a new park to both of us, but most were hard to find/unfound for quite a while/in the middle of tall grass.  I should have looked harder at the options there, especially since it was their first time and we haven't done it all that much.  But we did explore a new park and that was fun. Isaac and Joshua both picked up some rocks.

Tuesday: food

Isaac must be going through a growing spurt.  Yesterday he ate all his food, had his little dessert, had a graham cracker, had half a banana, had the other half banana, had some frozen peas, and had more frozen peas before we cut him off because it was time for bed.  Today was similar.

Joshua, on the other hand, is on a hunger strike.  I'm lucky if he'll eat two bites of breakfast.  He did eat a good lunch; I got some sugar pea crisps and rices cakes to help tempt him, along with crackers and hummus.  He ate his cheese just to get more rice cakes.  No snack, but then didn't eat a bite of dinner.  (The last several days have been similar.)  Even the pouches and the garlic bread went untouched.  Sigh.  Flurry's rubbing off on him.

Monday: this and that

Yesterday Joshua woke up from his nap a little early.  I finally let him use the Ipad.  He chilled.  When time was up he was in a much better mood.  But he was just so cute!

Today was another work day.  I graded and dealt with things until about 1pm.  One person has now finished...hooray!  I had time to finish several more things on my to-do list, although it's still a lot longer than I would like.

After school we went geocaching.  Isaac had asked to do it, it was a nice day out, and we didn't really have any plans for the evening.  We found one and looked really hard for one, but couldn't find it.

Sunday: sermon

Today in church we're starting a new sermon series called "Ask me anything."  Pastor JD started with why it's ok to ask questions, etc. and mentioned that Jesus says we should be like little children.

Whenever I've heard that phrase I've always thought we should imitate the trust and absolute love and carefree-ness that children have.  The passage the pastor was talking about, he said we should be like children in how we ask questions.

Have I mentioned that Isaac asks a lot of questions lately?

Anyway, the second half of the message Pastor JD answered questions that had been texted to him during the sermon.  So he had to answer them off the cuff.  I was very impressed with the answers, but some of the answers reminded me of how I answer Isaac's questions.

Sometimes I don't answer his question directly.  Sometimes Isaac has an incorrect underlying idea that I need to address that misconception instead.  Sometimes I have to say I don't know.  Pastor JD did the same thing for some of the questions.  He was forthright about it, and always said that he doesn't have all the answers, etc., but didn't always answer the question directly.

Anyway.  An interesting sermon, especially since I'm still thinking about it.