Sunday: Christmas continues

Ben woke up today and I immediately handed the kids off to him.  My eyes were not staying open.  (Have I mentioned that Joshua likes to play a game called "go to sleep"?  It's very effective.)

Anyway, Ben got out the Christmas present for the boys during my short nap...a large Lego set.  (It's Joker's Castle from Lego Batman.)  They started to put it together and asked for it several times throughout the day.

Saturday: prayer

As we were praying tonight Ben asked the boys what they wanted to pray for.  Isaac started with his normal, "Thank you for helping us love everyone in the whole world."  (I'll admit, his sentence structure messes me up a bit but I go with it.)  Anyway, he started this again today, "Thank you for helping us love everyone in the whole universe!"  We were startled and said something like, "oh, we're expanding now."  Isaac responded, "Yeah, otherwise we wouldn't get the people in space!"

Cruise day 3: sea day

Merry Christmas!  Today we sent the day at sea.

We were told that there were presents for the kids at 8am.  Since we were up and dressed by then we were there close to 8...it turned out there was a slight typo, so instead we (along with Grey Bear) got our picture taken with Santa Goofy.

The kids went to the kids area for a while.  There was some activity that we persuaded them to try.  I think Isaac did screens the whole time and Joshua tolerated it.  Ben and I hung out in the adult area and read for a little bit.

Isaac discovered that he loves crab legs!  I told both boys that they needed to try some new foods this trip.  Isaac took it to heart and found some things he likes and some things he doesn't like; Joshua tried some new foods but didn't try as much.  (The problem with crab legs is that Isaac can't take them apart and his rate of eating is faster than my taking apart.  Therefore, he only got a few per day.)

Ice cream!  Isaac enjoyed the strawberry banana swirl and Joshua changed every day.

I took the boys for a bit so then Ben took the boys.  I went to the adult area again for just a bit with my legs in the pool.

We had our fancy dinner night that night.  We were standing in line for a while and so I gave the kids my phone to take some pictures.  Isaac decided to take pictures of the lights...but it shows the lobby of the boat nicely.

We tried to get a quick family picture, but Joshua wasn't having it.

After dinner we finally got the picture taken.

Since the pool was busy during the day we went swimming at night.  This was the small pool that was warm and Joshua really enjoyed.  Isaac and Ben went on the water slide six times and he was so excited.  It was nice because the pool was not very busy at night time and so you didn't have to wait in line very long (if at all).

Friday: Lego firetruck

The Lego firetruck has been an awesome present for Joshua.  He works on it for a little bit, and then plays with it for a lot bit.

He saw me taking pictures, and so brought over every vehicle for a picture.  Several of them made noises while I was taking the picture.  (Note the bruise on this cheek...he ran right into a step ladder at full steam on Monday.)

(There's one more, but my phone is having issues.)

Thursday: class

In one of my classes an Amanda and Amy sat next to each other.  It made me think of my wonderful Roommate, and of happy memories.

Wednesday: wife

This morning Joshua managed to put his coat on and zip it up by himself.  I was praising him, saying that before long he'd be living in his own house too!  He wasn't a fan and wanted to live with Mom and Dad and Isaac.  He said that really, he didn't want to live by himself.  I said that made sense, and that maybe he could live with his wife.

"Yeah!  My wife can help me [build] my Lego firetruck.  And call Mickey and Cluto!"  (Cluto = Pluto)

Aunt C is also letting us borrow her tramp for a few weeks.  The boys both enjoyed it today.

Tuesday: school starts

Classes started for me today.  It ended up being a slightly busy day due to an orientation for lab, but I felt like I was much more in control than I was last semester on the first day.  I'm not completely sure why this is, as I didn't have a key to the new cabinet for my class and so had to teach in an offset location...it was hard to see the students as well to see if they were following along.  I think I only put two students to sleep. :D  To be fair, the first day is rather boring.