Isaac: 64 months

Isaac turned 64 months!

Puppy: Isaac is still a puppy.  We played fetch a little bit this month.  However, he has started bagauwking like a chicken...a lot.  If you call him a chicken he woofs at you to remind you he's actually a puppy.

School: Things are going well at school, as normal.  We told him that he'd have to go to school five days a week in kindergarten and that threw him a bit.  He asked me about it several times over the next few days.  Did I mention we decided on Eagle Crest as the school?  All the schools that we looked at were good, but this one had the added bonus of being close and being on the way to Ben's work.

Activities: Isaac has done a ton of Legos this past month.  A lot has been putting some sets together, which he can now do all by himself, but some has been the free play in the basement.  He made a cannon ship and a target to knock over the other day, although I'm not sure the cannon was powerful enough to actually knock it over.  Isaac also likes "Switch Surprise" (aka, Mario Kart), doing things outside, running, IPad, and Paw Patrol.

On being a brother: Isaac is incredibly patient with Joshua.  Sure, there are times he gets frustrated with him, but I've been quite proud of how he either lets Joshua take [Joshua's] turn after Isaac always sets something up or plays with Joshua realizing that Joshua is younger.

Thursday: that time of year...

...when I want to strangle Moodle for all it's worth.  Seriously, there has got to be a better way to put due dates in every semester.  I feel like it shouldn't be hard.  Instead, after about 1.25 hours of monotonously changing due dates, I'm 2/3 of the way through.

I was going to post Isaac's monthly report, but just don't feel like it.  It wasn't really a hard day today, but I'm tired.  I should probably go to bed, but getting ready for bed takes work.

Tuesday: baby shower

Some friends are having a baby.  They also play Warcraft with us, so obviously we needed to have a baby shower in the game.

We did it while the most of the guild was on line anyway.

We had a few decorations, including a guild standard that looked like a baby foot (sort of) on light blue and a few balloons.

And they got gifts!  Zach got a bunch of balls thrown at him and they both got some "real gifts."  The things in [ ] are what they got.  They also got some [Medal of Patience] which didn't get linked but I'm sure they'll earn.  Several of the things linked are toys or pets.

It may hold the record for being the shortest baby shower ever at about five minutes, but it was fun.  People got into it and it stayed a surprise, so hooray!

Monday: plans

My schedule is different this week due to exam week, and so the kids and I are at home tomorrow.  And it's going to be cold.

What to do, what to do.  Grocery shopping is an option, but boring.  Although having either things like milk is always nice, grocery shopping might not happen until next Monday if we don't go tomorrow.

I could invite myself over for a playdate.  I don't really want to invite anyone over here because we have Legos in the basement, although the basement could just be off limits.

Hmm.

Joshua: 33 months

Joshua is now 33 months.

Pictures: He does not like having his monthly pictures taken, as evidenced by the crazy cute frowny face above.  I maintain that it can take only 30 seconds if he cooperates with me, but since he doesn't it takes longer.  That being said, he is often asking to take pictures of us in matching clothing.

Growth: He can suddenly turn the light switches on and off, so he must have grown several inches in the last month.  Based on the last time we checked the light switches and how far away he still was, I expected it to be several more months.

Bear: while EE is shown in the pictures, Bear is still his number one companion.  Bear goes most places with us now, mainly because Joshua is so good at keeping track of him.  Bear does a few assorted things, including turning off the light in Joshua's room, clapping, eating, and on one notable occasion Bear picked Bear's nose and gave me the booger.

Learning: Books have suddenly become a hit with Joshua.  He liked to read before, but now he's asking for it more often.  He can sing about half the alphabet, can count through about 13, and is starting to actually count things.  He doesn't always get the right number, but he gives it a good try.

Eating: He eats well at breakfast and usually at lunch.  Whenever I tell him what dinner is going to be, his immediate response is "I don't like that."  I usually say, "too bad."  The foods that he eats hasn't really changed in the last several months.

Sleeping: sleeping is better, but it is still common for me to get up once to either put the covers back on or tell him he can go to the bathroom without me there.  If it is windy or thunderstormy he will often wake up frightened.  He still takes an afternoon nap; usually about 1.5 hours but sometimes more.

Playing: Joshua is good at playing.  He can put Legos together (above is his rocket ship).  He still does Duplos often too.  Yeah, we've done a lot of Legos lately.  Oh, and he likes Mario Kart because he gets to race.

Friday: last night

Last night Joshua was fussing, so I went over to check him out.  The problem?  He wanted to sleep in the guest room bed.

I told him to go back to sleep where he was.

Thursday: power outage

There I was, going along, teaching a lab around 8:45am.  "Teaching."  This lab was going rather well, so I was actually doing some grading.

The power went off.  There was a piece of equipment connected to the building pressurized air, so it was suddenly dark with a very loud, "ca-chunk".  In a basement room, with no lights and no monitors it gets really dark.  There was enough time to think, "hmm, the power just went out." and "it's really dark in here" when the power came back on.

The computers were all booting up again when the lab director came down.  He came to help people recover their data, which is good because I had no idea how to do such a thing.  However, the power outage must have been campus wide because the server was down.

The server took just long enough to come back up that we had the students skip to the last part of the lab.  We also canceled the lab report.  This was especially awesome for me since I was going to have to grade this lab report instead of my grader.