Saturday: games

Today we played a lot of games.  I played one with Joshua that he had made up based on Quarriors.  It...was not really that fun.  I didn't understand the rules and that never helps.  But he realized it was a test run and he worked really hard on the card art.

I played a game of Dominion with Isaac.  He chose some new cards and it was fun.

I played a game Isaac made up in the afternoon.  Usually the games and cards that the children make up don't work well and I don't enjoy playing them.  This game, on the other hand, worked pretty well (and I understood the rules!)  It was a bit like making a nerdle.

 

Thursday: classes, stitches, ducks

Today was the last day of classes for me!  I had a 7:30am class, and while it wasn't too bad to get up for it I'm also glad that it's done.  The students did a good job of showing up, and I was a bit afraid of that.

Joshua got his stitches out today.  The wound is healing well.

Isaac and I saw another duck on a roof today.  We wondered if we've just missed seeing ducks on roofs before or if the ducks have suddenly changed their habits and are perching on roofs.

Wednesday: duck

Isaac: There's a duck on our roof!

Amanda/Joshua: what?  I've never seen a duck on our roof.

*Assorted laughter by all of us*

Amanda: look!  There's a duck on our neighbor's roof too!

*Isaac almost dies from laughter.*

Monday: eventually

 Eventually the boys will probably be about the same size.

...I have no idea how I'll remember whose clothes are whose when sorting laundry.

One of these things just doesn't belong

 ...one of these things is not like the others, can you tell by the time I finish this song.

I also made peanut butter-nutella-strawberry jam three way sandwich for the boys.  They were excited, but said it was rather hard to eat.

Saturday: a good run

Well, we had a good run.

Today was the first day a child went to Urgent Care/ER.  It's been 10 years - I wasn't expecting to make it this long, honestly.

Isaac and Joshua were playing in the basement and Joshua hit his head on the Duplo table.  Ben and I heard the urgent cry and Isaac came up to get us, and about the time Isaac got up the stairs the cries changed into an "I'm going to die" cry.  Joshua had just touched the place that hurt and realized that his hand now had blood on it.

Yes, there was quite a bit of blood.  No, it wasn't terrible.  We got it cleaned up and while it was still bleeding continually, it wasn't spouting blood.  But we realized early on that it'd need stitches.  So Joshua and I headed to urgent care.

The wait wasn't too bad and Joshua was well distracted by his screen.  They got us back, the nurse took a quick look to confirm it needed stitches, and they got started.  The whole thing took about 1.5hours, which isn't too bad.  After they numbed the outside Joshua was in much better spirits, but he hated the internal shot.  He did a great job though and stayed still.

He was in good spirits the rest of the day without any pain medication.  The band-aid was bothering him, so we tried to do a better placement of it before bedtime and he seemed happy with it.  We need to get the stitches out in 5-7 days.

Friday: a reason

This evening Joshua was working on his homework and messed it up just a bit.  I told him to erase it and do his best work.  Oh my, that was apparently the wrong thing to say!  He continued working on it, while crying and not talking to us.  He was almost done when I had him stop for to brush his teeth.  (He was running late and it was almost time for bedtime.)  I told him he could do it in the morning, but he was having none of that.

Fast forward to after Ben read the books.  He came downstairs to me to finish up the one question on his homework and we naturally started talking about what happened.  It turned out that Joshua's teacher had made him erase two lines of writing today because he had done it upside-down on the paper and he was rather upset about it.  So when I told him to erase some work he just couldn't quite handle it.  

Everything clicked in place for me too.  Context is helpful.