Wednesday: bird of prey

We were leaving the gym today and saw a bird of prey on the grass.  We watched it a while; it was having it's dinner.  We started walking towards the cars and realized it was right off the driver's side of Ben's car.

We got the kids in the car I was driving.  The bird of prey was still there, eating away.  The cars going by weren't bothering it a bit.  There was one car with people that was also watching the bird.  Ben ended up getting in the car from the passenger side.  Luckily, for the bird I guess, the car was electric and so Ben was able to pull away without disturbing it at all.  It was pretty neat.

My best guess is that it was a Cooper's Hawk, but the bird book says that there are a few that look very similar.

Tuesday: outside

Today we played outside for a bit after dinner.  Isaac and I played "go to bed", in which he is the parent and I am the child.  I holler for him to fix all my problems.  He's pretty good at fixing all of them except the one when I'm not sleepy.  (Oh, and all the monsters got turned into poop.)

At the same time Joshua and I played weeds.  Joshua would pick some weeds and give them to me.  He seemed very happy with himself.

Sunday: pfft

Joshua was copying Ben's funny noise.  It's kind of hard to see.  At the end you hear Isaac saying, "Poop."  Why?  Because he is obsessed with that word lately.  It seems to come out of his mouth about every half hour.

In other news, my eye and leg were doing much, much better today.  Almost all of our flies have been gone since yesterday...I think there is still one floating around, but we're almost done.

Saturday: right side

My right side was having issues today.  Before bed last night my right eye hurt.  I rinsed it out and it stopped hurting, but still gave me some issues.  This morning when I woke up it kept tearing up and going into lighter rooms was really hard.  However, as the day progressed it has gotten better.  It still isn't completely back to normal, but much improved.

I also have a muscle on my right side that is rather sore.  I think it is just sore and nothing else, but it sure is making going up stairs rather difficult.

I forgot to mention a conversion with Isaac from last night.  We were all in the car, and Ben had mentioned earlier that he had hit some traffic so it took him a bit longer to get home.  Isaac said, "I'm going to tell you what to do in a traffic jam, Dad."  "Ok, what?"  "Wait."  It was such grown-up sounding advice.

Friday: car

Well, after two busy weeks of car shopping we finally picked up our new car.

It is a Honda CR-V in dark blue.

It's a nice car, and I'm glad to have it.  I expect it'll be especially fun over the next few weeks.  But I'm really glad to be done car shopping.

Thursday: kids

I came into Isaac's classroom at the end of the day to pick him up and he runs and gives me a huge hug.  This was pretty normal.  But then he declared that I was the best mom ever.  Aww.  He got an extra big hug for that.

Then we were in Joshua's room before dinner and he decided to walk half way across it!  Ok, maybe only three feet.  But compared to his earlier three inches it was a huge achievement.  He did it a bit later in the night too.  It seems as though he wants to do more, but the muscles get tired a bit too quickly.

Wednesday: playground, flies, sore

*This morning we went to the playground.  It was an absolutely beautiful day for it.  And we had lunch ahead of time, so Isaac wasn't constantly asking for food.  The boys played well together and the almost-toddlers were pretty good too.

*Fly status: most of the flies from upstairs have been caught, although I think there might be one or two left.  It was interesting how they seemed to get caught in pairs.  There are a bunch of flies downstairs too, so I set out another trap for them.

*Soreness: My legs have gotten more and more sore as the day goes on from yesterday's workout.  It's odd, because the workout was geared more towards arms.