actually Thursday: this and that

We started out with a short walk with our neighbor and then playing with their kitchen.  My boys sure do love feeding me, but they don't like eating their own cooking very much.  During this time Holland Rescue Mission also came to pick up a bunch of toys.  I got rid of several large toddler toys.  The toys were loved, but haven't been played with a significant amount lately, so they can be passed on to someone who will love them better.

After that, we worked on taking the paint of Joshua's loft for a bit.  I finally found tools that seem to work well, so the boys are more willing to help...it is rather addicting to get the paint off when it actually comes off.  Then we still had some time, after playing Uno and Sleeping Queens, so I decided it was time for our yearly "clean under the fridge."  First of all, there was so much less this year...a comb, a receipt, and a magnet.  The boys are getting older.  Secondly, after I pulled out the fridge they pretty much took over.  I finished a small part at the end, but they did most of it.  I guess behind-the-refrigerator is a cool place to be.

Joshua still loves playing with Voltron.  During rest time I heard him say, "dear lion, please help us find a trick to poop on the bad lion's head."  I can't remember what the context was, but it was still hilarious.

I gave blood today.  The needle poke hurt more than usual, but it also seemed to go faster than usual.  I was in and out in about thirty-five minutes.

Thursday: around

Today we stopped by Hope College.  I confirmed that over the summer CIT upgraded all the computers to Microsoft Office 2016.  This is a bit of a problem as I ordered the 2010 book again.  Now, it isn't a huge problem because there are only a few things that really change, but...it would have been nice to have been notified.  I was hoping to keep using 2010 one more year and then jump to 2019.  Students have been doing their homework on 2016 for quite a while, so I think we're going to use 2016 and deal with any problems as they arise.  I've also been using 2016 at home, so I more-or-less know my way around it.

We also finally took pictures of Joshua's quilt and picked up a card holder for him.

We played one round of sleeping queens and one round of Uno.  Uno was a bit more fun because Uno is much better with three players, but Joshua only tolerated being on his own team, even with a lot of help.

We've been reading "The book with no pictures" a lot lately and at one part I have to say, "my head is a blueberry pizza."  So today we made a blueberry lemon pizza and it was delicious.

Note the flashlight.  In the middle of baking the light bulb on top of us burned out.  Joshua immediately said, "I got it!" and ran off.  I had no idea what was going on.  He returned with his flashlight so that we would have enough light.

Let's see...we have a broken house and splash pad on the table, a cruise ship over to the side, and a playground next to Joshua.

We got some fish.  The yellow one is Isaac's and the working name is "Yellow" and the red one is Joshua's and it's name is "Sea Patrol."

The other arm of Voltron was made tonight.  This has provided hours of entertainment, especially for Joshua.

Monday: busy day

We had a busy day today.

It started at Crazy Bounce.  The boys put this at the top of their list of things they wanted to do this summer, and we finally made it.  There was bouncing.  There was crazy.

We came home for screen time and rest time.  Haroldina, my mouse, had her birthday party.  Apparently she was supposed to have it yesterday during the birthday party time but somehow she didn't.  I guess yesterday she played too much and so didn't do any eating.  From Isaac's mouse, Mouse, I got a rainbow power.  From Joshua's mouse, Puppy, I got fire power.  After eating we went to fight a birthday boss.  Joshua had been very concerned all day that we wouldn't do this.

We went to the playground.  Isaac mainly did his own thing...even Joshua didn't follow him around as much as normal.  But Joshua played with our friends a bit.

Both boys were quite tired by the time we left.

It is also the release of the next Warcraft expansion today!  Here is Amalle by a broken down robot.

Sunday: froyo

It was enjoyed by all.

Saturday: made it

We made it through the day.  Joshua was extra...grumpy.  In retrospect we probably should have gone out of the house and done something.

Friday: Perseid meteor shower.

Today's plan was to go to the beach to watch the Perseid meteor shower.  The astronomy club was putting on an event.

The boys took naps.  Joshua decided to take a nap on the floor.  It was a bit weird, but he did sleep.

We got in the car and started traveling.  When we were two miles away from the beach traffic started to get rather busy.  I didn't think that all those cars could be going to the beach...surely this event wasn't that popular.  When we were 1.5 miles away the traffic turned into stop and go traffic.  As I rounded the corner all I saw were taillights.

We turned around.  A mile and a half of traffic trying to get into the beach!  There isn't that much parking!  The s'mores would be gone!  It would be a madhouse!  Where did all these people come from???

So the boys got their pajamas on and we made s'mores at home.  The marshmallows didn't get very warm.

Joshua was done with star gazing pretty much right away.  Isaac and I lasted about an hour, but I only saw two and Isaac said he saw two while I was inside checking on Joshua.  Either it was too light out on the deck or they just weren't really showing up.  I was very disappointed.  However, I got the star chart out and Isaac and I had a really good time looking for the constellations and the stars.