This morning Isaac and I finally did our toe-hook off. Isaac maxed out around 23lb and I only had 17lb. I was really hoping I would win.
This evening was a freshman meeting and open house. The freshman meeting was mostly old information for me, but Isaac hadn't heard all of it yet so that was good. Ben and Joshua came for the open house so we walked all the classes again. Isaac didn't go to any of the wrong classrooms this time, but it still took him a bit to orient himself. It felt rather odd because I could have found 6 out of 7 of his classrooms significantly faster than he did. Oh well, it was good practice for him and after a few days he'll know exactly where to go. He was also able to meet most of his teachers.
Tomorrow's the day! High school and middle school!
After several days of doing more with Isaac, I finally had a Joshua day. He joined me to help with the Christmas tree, although it was not his favorite part of the day. He made around 100 holes, and there are about 300 left. We're making good progress and I should be able to drill more holes during lunch breaks over the next several weeks.
I gave Joshua a haircut. Apparently he doesn't like it when people comment that he got a haircut, and so wanted to put that off as long as possible. I mentioned we could do a haircut more often, but I'm not sure he'll go for that.
It was also Back to School night for Joshua! He's in his homeroom class with two good friends. This class is together about half the day, then I think it changes around a bit. His first special, besides band, is gym. Anyway, the locker went fine. I like his teacher, although Isaac didn't have much experience with him due to PATH.
Snaxaltol was grumpy tonight. He had no good part and grudgingly accepted the snack we had as his good part but was not happy about it. Catcachino's bad part was having to deal with Snaxaltol all day and asked to sleep far away from him tonight.
This afternoon after snack Isaac and Joshua were talking semi-nonsense and I was ignoring them. However, I was drawn into their conversation as we could only speak in five word sentences. "Why are you still talking?" "Where do we go first?" "Library, mini golf, ice cream". You get the idea. We saw Mr. Rob in the library and he was all in and joined us as we conversed.
Then we went to play mini golf. I made them recreate the cannon picture, only to just find out that they switched sides.
Oh well. It was a beautiful day for mini golf and we had a lot of fun with golf and ice cream afterwards.
We played Metro X as the game of the evening. Horizon sat near Isaac's board for quite a while making sure he did things correctly.
I was looking through Instagram. I try not to do this too much, but I do still add our LEGO pictures to the IJAB account several times per week. Anyway, I saw Isaac! He got used for an advertisement.
I made Joshua take a walk with me to Lowe's today to walk home with a long PVC pipe. I probably could have done it myself, but it's more fun with friend.
We started with "Would you rather have pink flowers or red flowers in front of your house?" Then continued through several more would you rathers, but each one needed to be based on the previous. I forgot what the next one was, but it could be something like wear a pink shirt or a red shirt? Then a shirt that is too small or a shirt that is too big?
The hardest one was would you rather be sick for a year but then die peacefully or not be sick for a year but then have a (30s to 20min) painful death? (The shorter the death the more painful, but you don't get to choose.)
The one that caused the most discussion would you rather have a loaf of bread that never runs out or a teleporter that could teleport one person anyone once a week?
It was my birthday today! Rather low key, but excellent all the same.
It started by working on my Christmas tree. Isaac and I made all the pieces of the trunk (with Dad's help). There are still lots of things to do, but it is moving forward!
After lunch Isaac and I went rock climbing. The weather was beautiful and the garage doors were open at Scrapyard, so it felt nice. That being said, the set on the walls seems especially hard right now and there were a lot of beginners on the same routes that I wanted to climb, so I didn't climb for too long.
Then I dropped Isaac off at home and brought Joshua to get groceries. It was his "get out of the house" for the day. While not an exciting "get out of the house", it is pretty fun to get groceries with him. We also got school supplies, although we were able to shop our own school supplies for most of the items.
Ben picked up Tai for dinner and it was exactly what I wanted. We got extra ragoons because it was my birthday.
We started Ark Nova for our evening game, but Isaac was crazy tired so we ended a bit early. Oh well...we'll still finish the game over the next few days.
The biggest attraction at this art museum is the rainbow glass bridge at the top. It was starting to look like it was going to rain soon, so we did that first. It was fun to walk around and see how the city looked through different colors and how the different colors interacted. One of the kids also realized that when you closed your eyes, the color you saw was purple (instead of black). There were some purplish lights on the ground that we then found which must have been impacting our eyes more than expected.
This video is a bit long, but gives a great idea of what we saw. I also included a bunch of pictures, but they only give single moments and this is definitely a multi-moment experiance.
It was just starting to rain, so the kids and I quickly went into the inner courtyard. The video goes in a circle pretty quickly.
Then, since it was an art museum, we looked at the art. Some of the art was interesting, some of it wasn't. I think we went a bit too slowly at the beginning and were somewhat done by the end, but it's always exciting to see what the next room is going to include.
Kitchen totem with Blue Funnel by Rose Eken. (This is how my kitchen feels sometimes.)
A funeral. Motif from Northern Zealand by Jorgen Soone. This caught everyone's attention because there is a ghost in it.
Pretty blues
There were a few other pieces of art that caught my attention, but so that this post doesn't get too long I'm going to skip them.
Boy by Ron Mueck
Ben was especially captivated by this piece and took several videos of it from different camera heights. It's interesting to see how the camera placement changed when and how the colors showed up.
Hmm...I think this is going to be a three-part day. Stay tuned!
