Thursday: stuff

It was still spring break for me, but I didn't really do anything special.  I got a few chores done (or at least started) that have been hanging around for a while, so that was nice.  There was very rainy today, which was excellent.  I also joined a friend for rock climbing during Isaac's last team practice - there are several good routes right now and several routes that we need to work on.

Wednesday: sweet potato hash

Tonight I attempted to make a dish that we had in Disney - a sweet potato hash with chicken and a creamy herb sauce.

I found it delicious.  Ben said it was ok, Isaac started out ok and decreased it over time, and Joshua didn't like it at all.  (Although he did like the mango boba that is part of the recipe.)  I also spent a bit of effort to velvet the chicken well so that it was nice and tender.

I'll probably make it again - although I might try with pasta for other people in the family.

Tuesday: Science Fair

Isaac had his science fair tonight.  The project as a whole was pretty nice - most of the work was done at school.  The last few days he did a lot of work at home, but not really too much.

Isaac did an experiment to see if changing the height between the starting and ending reservoirs in a siphon changed how quickly an amount of water moved to the ending reservoir.

With his friend Edward

Explaining to everyone

Monday: new house

I finally got to see Dad and Pat's new house.  It is a very nice place and I got a lovely tour.

It was also a beautiful day today.  I had hoped to clean two windows in the basement, but only managed to clean one.  I'm sure there is plenty to do though, so I'll just wait for the other one until it gets nice again...it might be about two weeks.

We just got Joshua's derby picture on Sunday too.

Sunday: game

It's been a rather uneventful weekend, so not much to say.  We played FlameCraft as our family game and it was fun.  Isaac "complained" the whole game that he was losing, only to win by two points in an end-of-the-game surge.

We went to a friends' house yesterday and they were having an epic dart war with forts and everything.

Thursday: wax museum

 Joshua had his wax museum tonight!  He was Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the Nintendo Switch.

The night started with a parade of heroes.

Joshua was in the first group, so he went over to his station.  It was in the end of a hallway, which was a bit less busy.  I got his video and went to see the other students too.  It was so fun.  They did an amazing job.  

I thought we would hang out together during the second session, but he wanted to hang out with his friends and I wanted to see different heroes than he did.  So I gave him some quarters, remembered to set a meeting place, and we went our separate ways.  There were a lot of athletes, but they were still interesting.

Wednesday: Pinewood Derby

Joshua made it to Pinewood Derby at church tonight.  He raced a cheese shaped car called Monsta-rolla.

He had three heats, as normal, and had a track record all three times.

Unsurprisingly, he got first place in 5th grade boys.