Bottles & Batmobiles

Caroline started her week off well.  She had her final bottle last Sunday night and has done fine ever since.  Now we just give her milk if she asks for it and she's fine.  One hurdle down!

Her last bottle!

School went fairly well this week.  Josiah's accused me of being boring (more than once..), so I tried to make it more fun.  We walked to the library, but while we did so we pretended we were like Lewis & Clark and had to report on all the things we saw.  We also learned about the War of 1812 and with that Key's Star Spangled Banner.  We learned about the excretory system (lungs, urinary tract, intestines, skin).  Lungs were the easiest thing to work with out of this group, so we blew our pencils and had pencil races across the table.  That was deemed "fun," so it was a win.

Expedition to the library drawings

Josiah's coloring sheet

For his presentation at  CC on Friday, Josiah made the Batmobile out of Legos.  He informed his class that it changed into 6 different things (Bat plane, Bat boat, etc.).  He then attempted to show them everything it turned into, but after two transformations he was going on a little long and I "encouraged" him to stop (repeatedly).  He has a tendency to go long with his presentations.  He had also drawn coloring sheets for everyone in the class, so he passed out Batman, Superman, & The Flash coloring sheets.  He got to one girl in the class and said she got a really special sheet because he had written in "R's" where she was to color it red and "Y's" where she was to color it yellow.  The others did not get letters on their pictures informing them how to color them in.  I hoped they fared well without it.

The batmobile

For school on Friday, they were allowed to dress up as their favorite storybook character.  Josiah chose Peter Pan and made a costume to look the part.  While we were making his costume on Thursday, Henry chimed in that he wanted a costume too.  I asked him what he wanted and he said, "Black Widow."  Here's Black Widow:

Fortunately, he changed his mind to Jake from Jake & the Neverland Pirates by the time we finished the Peter Pan costume.  He does like Black Widow, though.

Wednesday evening the boys went to their Music & More class at church.  When I went to pick up Henry, his teacher told me what he had done that night.  For snack they were given a packet of oreos which had 2 inside.  He kept carrying around his wrapper and the teacher asked him why he was still holding onto it.  He said that he had saved an oreo to give to his big brother Josiah.  She told him he could eat it and gave him a new packet to give Josiah.  Super sweet of him.  (He is VERY good at sharing food with Josiah.)  Then what was funny, on the way home Henry said that Josiah could get one cookie and Daddy could get one cookie from the pack.  On Thursday, the boys opened the pack, Josiah ate 3/4 of a cookie and saved 1/4 for Todd.  And Henry ate the other cookie...

The boys have weekly chores - emptying the dishwasher silverware, dustbusting up the crumbs, and setting the table for dinner.  However, Caroline has totally taken over the dustbusting.  Once we get it out, she makes loud noises until we hand it to her.  She's sort of like a Roomba in that she doesn't always dustbust everything up quickly, but she does go all around the room and eventually will get to all spots.  Yesterday she just dustbusted until it ran out of power.  She's that into it.

We have been doing a Mommy train or a Daddy train to take the kids to bed at night.  Basically we pick them up at the "station" (the fireplace) and bring them the 20 feet to their bed making "Choo-choo" noises.  After doing this for a while, Caroline now stands at the fireplace and says, "ch-ch-ch" in a really soft voice.  It is so cute.  She is always right in there with everything.

And boy, what a busy weekend.  Saturday morning we attended a Messianic congregation which we really enjoyed as did the kids.  One of the best things was Caroline's class was given gluten-free Chex mix for snack.  The boys both liked their classes, too.  Right after that we went straight to the other church we've been attending for their Fall Festival.  The boys spent all their time on the bounce house things.  The first one they did was the bungee cord one.  You get strapped in and run as fast as you can but the bungee cord snaps you back.  Well when you're less than 40 lbs, you can't get too far with a bungee cord so both boys were just falling all over the place.  They had obstacle course bounce houses, too which they went through numerous times.  Unfortunately I have no pictures.  Todd stayed with Caroline in the shade and I forgot to take the camera with me.  They also shared a shave ice.  It came in a cup with spoons and they each picked a flavor so they had a "side."  They were supposed to take a bite and hand it to the other, take a bite, hand it back, etc.  Well, Josiah was taking a bite and not handing it back to Henry quickly enough and Henry gets angry and says, "Pepperhead" in his angry voice.  The boys have come up with this term "pepperhead" as an insult for each other.  Sometimes it's just "pepper" but mostly "pepperhead."  I suppose it beats other insults.

Sunday afternoon the boys went to a birthday party for one of Josiah's CC classmates.  It was at a fitness center and they got to play games in the gym first and then play in the pool.  They were in the pool for what seemed like forever (probably 45 minutes), but they had a lot of fun.  I need to thank the birthday boy's mom for tiring our kids out so that they will hopefully sleep in late tomorrow.  One can hope.

And in even more exciting news, our house is currently under contract.  We have the home inspection this upcoming week, so we are praying everything goes very, very well with that!

Josiah made Peter Pan out of big legos (the thing with the dog head) and then spelled out "Peter Pan" which was pretty impressive to do with the big legos. They don't always stay together very well.

Henry spent a lot of time this weekend working on his new dot-to-dot book (thank you Grandma & Grandpa). He loves dot-to-dots. Josiah got one too and did it from front cover to back in an hour.