Saturday: cheating

The boys and I played Forbidden Sky today.  It's a co-op game and the hardest of the Forbidden series.  We played the novice level.

Things were going pretty well until the last quarter of the game.  In order to prevent people from dying we redid a few moves...no big deal.  Then to prevent Isaac from dying I made a completely new rule that was that I could use all my actions to get a card to save him and I gave it to him.  We ignored one or two of the bad cards.  We reused the good cards.  I looked through the deck and picked the card I wanted.  The boys noticed what I was doing pretty quickly, but couldn't quite wrap their heads around it.  At one point I said, "Isaac, were is that good card you had?"  

"I used it."  

"I don't think you did."  

"Yes, I did."  

"No, I don't think so."  

"Yes."  

"Seriously, can't you tell we're cheating big time already?  We would have died about ten times already.  Take the card."  

Laughter from both boys.

I had to put the game away because I was the biggest cheater.  However, the whole thing reminded me of when Mom would slip us $100 in monopoly so that we wouldn't be out in the first half hour of the game and that made me happy too.

Thursday

 Joshua: what does Rosa mean?

A: Rose

J: like the flower or the how pancakes are?

A: what???   Well, um, the flower.  Obviously.

A: Oh, hmm.  I bet he means rows of pancakes.  Rose, rows!  A new homophone I've never thought of!  But still, rows of pancakes??

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Isaac's fort looks more like snowhedge now.

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Everything is back in the guest room!  It looks great!

Tuesday: questions

The boys have been on a question streak lately! 

Joshua: What is the hardest part of a baby to change: the diaper, shirt, pants or socks?

A: I answered diaper but sometimes shirt in a long answer involving poop

Joshua: What is the easiest?

A: pants.

Isaac: what would happen if there were two stars in the solar system?

A: We looked up binary star systems and learned about the different planetary orbits.  I found thinking about day/night interesting

Isaac: So in this case it would be getting warmer and warmer and then a slight cool down because a sun is behind a sun?*

A: um, I'm not sure but I don't think so.

I: But light can only travel in straight lines, right?

A: But what if  they're not on the same plane?

Isaac: could a planet's orbit be in a figure eight?

A: We looked that up too and while hypothetically possible, the middle of the eight would have to be in the perfect location every time.

I: Is the Earth changing it's orbit?

A: It turns out it is going farther away from the sun by about 1.5 cm/year

And this was just a small sampling of the questions I was asked in the last few days.  However, the questions have all been pretty good questions and not nonsense questions, which make them a lot more fun to think about.

*I said I don't think so, but really I have no clue.  If anyone has thoughts on this, I'm now rather curious.  The point in space that we are talking about is where the green circle is below.

Monday: Valentine's Day

As normal, Ben and I didn't do anything special for Valentine's Day.  That being said, we showed our love in much more practical ways:

*I picked him up from an injection appointment at the last minute.
*He let me have some of his breakfast.
*He let me stop by the fabric store and waited in the car.  (It had been on my errand list, but I wasn't going to go back over there just for that.)

*We both went crazy as we looked at the car next to us in the parking lot to see two dogs sitting in the driver and passenger seats.  They had dropped off their human daughter to get fabric and were waiting patiently for her return.
*I went to pick up his prescription.

We also had some chocolate cheesecake that we shared with the boys for dinner.

The children, on the other hand, seemed to have fun filled days at school and came home with a ton of candy.  Between Christmas and Valentine's, I don't think they need candy for about a year now.

Saturday: shennanigans

I went out to pick up dinner and was gone all of about fifteen minutes.  In that time, the boys decided to have Joshua change into a swimsuit and have Isaac squirt him with a balloon full of water/air.  (Not a water balloon.  A normal balloon mostly filled with air and a little of water that, when released, goes crazy.)

Ben came up and took the picture and made them get ready for dinner.  I was just glad they were doing it in the bathtub!

Friday: snowballing the driveway

We woke up to an unexpected snow day!  I'm not completely sure on the reason, but I think it was ice.  It was rather warm when we got outside around 8:30am, so things were probably bad right before then.

Anyway, we decided to go outside.  Joshua didn't really want to go and I hadn't been planning on it, but I made him get ready and he told me I should shovel.  However, the snow was so wet (as expected) that we ended up using the driveway for snowball snow.  It worked pretty well...while the driveway wasn't clean when we ended, it had melted by the late afternoon.

Wednesday: frog room

A friend is helping to redo the frog room.  I've disliked those frogs for a long time, so I'm very excited to have them gone.  It took her yesterday and both of us today to get the wall paper off.  (To be fair, they aren't super long days.  Kids' schedules need to be worked around.)  The wall paper didn't come off super easily, but it also wasn't too bad once we got into the rhythm.  Take off the top layer, soak the glue layer, and then take that off.

We found some writing behind the wall paper.  It says "Frog room ribbit ribbit" with a frog and a gun that says bang.  I call this room many things, including frog room, guest room, and school room.  I might keep calling it frog room because the family will still know what I mean.

The boys enjoyed coloring on the walls, as should always happen before painting or wall papering.