Wednesday: blueberries

We went to pick blueberries today.  We were a little early, so the boys were able to play on the playground.  They did a great job picking blueberries...I was actually rather surprised!  We didn't end up with a ton, but that's ok because we have plenty of fruit in the house.

The boys did my hair.

Monday and Tuesday: stuff

Monday was pretty boring and I was grumpy Tuesday, which is why there weren't posts.  There were a lot of Legos though!

Joshua made a lot of dragons.

They were both doing Lego challenge at the same time, so I wanted to give them the same thing and see the different results.  After a lot of asking, we finally settled on a bed.  Isaac made a bed with a mattress that came out and a monster under it.

Joshua made a tiny bed.

Then Joshua made a castle.  With lots of flags.

Isaac made some hearts.

Joshua made another dragon with a dragon mech.  The little dragon can take it's tail off and store it in the mech.  It can also change into a little mech and use it's tail as a sword

This is a barn for all the dragons.

Sunday: honorable mention

Joshua got mentioned in today's sermon!  Here's the video:  (the mention really starts at 30:05)

https://youtu.be/Si9Cj3x6eN8?t=1786


There's another brief mention at 38:23

By the numbers

For reference, here are the websites I follow for my COVID-19 numbers.

World: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
World/State (normalized): http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
Michigan: https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-coronavirus-dashboard-cases-deaths-and-maps
Ottawa county: https://ottawacountymi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/8e2955c071394c70a6b69aff394c1a49

It's been a depressing week or two.

Thursday: VBS, Lego

 We had a VBS lesson.  It was rather nice because it was all off-line.  (It wasn't nice because it took until 10am for the lesson to come out.)  It was Noah's story.

We were supposed to make rainbow fruit skewers.  It was grocery day, so all we had green grapes.  So we colored some marshmallows instead.

Then we had a rainbow art project.

There were lots of Lego things.

A good guy vehicle.

An ark for all of Joshua's lovies.  (This was part of VBS.)

Isaac made giraffe an ark too.

Isaac got a bunch of gold Lego pieces and made a lot of darts.

Friday: growing things

First let's look at the things that are growing on our deck:

Beans: only growing weeds.

lettuce: only growing weeds

flowers: growing well

Lavendar: I think it's just weeds

Flowers: growing well, after we got rid of the dead mini-sunflowers

Unknown: growing well.  These were growing in the worm bin dirt and I had an extra pot, so I transplanted them.  I'm wondering if they are pumpkins, but I'm not convinced.  It's a fun mystery.

Isaac: is having a bit of a hard time.  He gets to chore time and just can't handle life anymore and cries.  He's bored.  It's understandable.

Joshua: we recently started putting him to bed a half hour earlier, 7:30pm.  This has been a good change as his legs are working properly during chore time.  Today he also made a dump truck and a ghost jail, among other un-pictured things.

Wednesday: no school

Joshua decided he wanted to use one of his "no school days" today.  I wasn't sure how it'd go, but it was ok.  (Isaac also wasn't sure how it'd go and in the morning said he might do some school anyway.  He didn't.)

We went for a short kayak ride, worked on making a 13-story building, picked up books from the library, and I did some work.  We had lunch a bit early, but the day went by pretty well.