Thursday: water

I had been planning on doing the monthly updates today, but then after I took the pictures I convinced Joshua to comb my hair.  (It's a new thing they like to do.  I rather like it too.)  Joshua decided it needed water, since I often use water with combs on their hair.  It rapidly got out of hand.

After my hair, my hands got cleaned.
After my hands, Joshua's hands were cleaned.
After Joshua's hands, Joshua's feet were cleaned.

I took a quick break at this point, and came back to a wet Joshua.

Wednesday: can you play with me?

While "can you play with me?" is cute and lovely, I heard it too much today.    

Joshua was also in a mood.  Maybe that was part of the problem today, or maybe it was because I would often play for a short time and then stop.  In either case, it just wasn't working.

"I DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING!"

This came after I told him I couldn't help with the Legos any more because I was in the middle of making dinner.  I probably suggested that he go see Ben.  Then he said that he didn't want to go to his bedroom.  ...ok, well, I hadn't suggested it but I guess it's good to know.  (To be fair, if they're loud or crying unreasonably they do sometimes have to go to their bedroom until they're ready to come out.  It wasn't completely out of the blue.)  Then he said he didn't want to do anything.  That was fine with me too; that way I didn't need to help him with anything either and could say yes for once.

Tuesday: fruit flies

We've been battling against fruit flies for almost a month now.  Almost every day I think it has gotten better and then the following day it is always bad again.  I've been killing them in droves, but there are always more.

I finally put a cover over the kitchen sink drain.  I kept clearing it out, but maybe there was something stuck in it.  Or the dampness was enough.  Anyway, I once again think I'm slowly starting to win over the dumb fireflies.

However, I think they move more in the light.  They're probably just sleeping now.  I half expect to change my mind about the war progress in the morning.

Monday: exercise

This evening I went to a workout class with Betsy.  I've realized that I need to start exercising again.  While I'm still not sure exactly what that will look like, it was at least a start.

The boys, on the other hand, have plenty of extra energy and movement.  Joshua wanted me to watch his dance party.  I cut it off because he had started to be a bit boring, but then he suddenly said, "Beep beep go to sleep!" and fell to the ground and pretended to sleep. Isaac saw I was taping and wanted his dance taped too.

Sunday: Happy Birthday!

It was Ben's birthday today.

He got some presents, went out to eat with family, and played games.  I thought it was a nice day.  (I think he thought the same.)

It was a nice end to a very nice weekend.

Saturday: minecraft

Isaac fully enjoyed more Minecraft today.  He made his own house.  It has a main room, two other random rooms, a treasure chest room, a running room, and a trap hallway.  He's also figured out how to use all his tools: axe, pick axe, how, sword, sheep sword.  Ben can tell where Isaac has explored because there are no sheep left.

We also got the last of the Christmas decorations put up.  There are a lot of lights in our house. :D  Someone (whose name might start with a J) keeps changing the current time of one of the timers though.

Friday: Minecraft, run, quilt

After waiting somewhat patiently for a while to get to play Minecraft, Isaac and Ben finally started today.  Isaac loved it.  We weren't really sure how well he'd do since you need to use the keyboard and mouse, but he did really well.  (I did hear a lot of "w, w, w, w" though.)  Joshua watched on Ben's lap and was rather concerned that wolves would get them in the caves.  They were playing on 'nice' mode though, so there were no wolves and we weren't really sure where it came from.

At one point Ben was on a cliff edge and Joshua said, "According to my research, you shouldn't go down there."  Apparently Magic School Bus has impacted his speech patterns.

I made the boys go on a run with me around the lake today since the weather was surprisingly nice out.  They both did really well.  I had told Isaac at the beginning of the summer that if he ran around the lake with only one stop he could get a big treat, and of course he remembered today.  Well, he easily ran around the lake.  He had several small stops waiting for Joshua and I to catch up and two big stops that Joshua and I called, but he didn't use his stop.  I'll be honest; I'm not sure I could have kept up with him.  So they got some ice cream with sprinkles.

Joshua received his quilt that Cheryl made.  He was much more excited about it than he appears in the picture.