Year 2, Day 299: Randomness

Ah, it was your pretty average Friday with a teeanger sleeping in, school to do, an errand, cooking, cleaning, clearing an iPhone of pics and vids because it's so full already, etc, with some blessing along the way like some extra food being dropped off right when we needed it because the paycheck is still a few days away.  The cupboard is definitely not empty but it's time to get creative with what we have.  Here ya go:

After our big day at the park yesterday, we stayed in and watched "Spiderman:Homecoming."  I did mention that yesterday though.  During the movie, though, Abishai was so loud with his playing and all over the place that we had to put the subtitles on!  Here are some of his antics.  He loves Connect 4 and this version was mine growing up, which could be from the 80's or earlier if it was my dad's.

So loud this one is!  We asked him to go play in the sun room or the fire room where Keturah was, but nope, he wanted to be with us.  He was transporting other cars.

Nope.  I'm not going to delete pictures like this because it shows just how fast and crazy this kid can be.  Go, Flash! He was jumping and "yahooing" all over the place.  He even got on the coffee table and started jumping!  Then when I was pulling him down, he cleared the table of it's objects! We laughed and we stopped him, and probably should have put him in time out or something.  Ugh!

Abishai did have some quiet moments where he would watch the movie and say "Spiderman" or "cars hurt" or "bad guys."  He has the cutest way of saying "Spiderman," too.  I think I will try to make tomorrow's blog all video links, as well as make a bunch of our videos on YouTube more accessible.  Right now they are all "unlisted" so you have to have the link to get to them and/or you can't search for them.  But the videos is where you'll see how many more words Abishai says and just how crazy he gets.

The 12 yr old observed the bowls were floating and said, "Oooo, boats!" and put in more bowls as boats.  So random.  So Justin. So preteen brain.

This morning we took a little drive to Greenwood to pick up some clothes I bought on a buy/sell/trade Facebook group for Keturah.  When I saw that she had nothing to wear yesterday to the park that was appropriate and had to double layer some leggings, I immediately went on the group looking for some.  Basically, it's an online garage sale and I love doing it this way! While we were waiting in the parking out of Fresh Thyme, Abishai got to watch the big trucks working on remodeling the building next to Chuck E Cheese.  I can't remember what store it was though.  He was thrilled!  And yes, he's in his pj's.  We left at 9 am, after waking up at 8 am.  He had a clean diaper on at least and had some breakfast, which he finished when we got back.

Trucks!

Big truck!  He didn't want to leave!  We stayed another 15 minutes after the clothing exchange was made because he wanted to watch the trucks.

We stopped at Daddy's office for 2nd breakfast of chips and a couple of truck videos.

Oops, it's a little blurry because I'm pretty shaky.  But, our plants are still going strong!  I did bring them inside two days ago because we had frost this morning.  And now that it's inside where it's warmer than it has been for the last week or so, this tomato is ripening quickly.  There's two more behind it.

And we have two peppers as well and they should turn red, orange or yellow!

Abishai had his pj pants on and was looking for a pocket, so I asked him if he wanted to change into his jeans and he said yes.  And this is why.  He wanted to put the noise machine in his pocket!  So cute!

Took a picture of my FB feed showing just the 5 of us 4 years ago.  We had no idea Abishai would be joining us.  Check out those goofy smiles!  It was taken down by the harbor in Charlottetown, PEI.

Look at how big he is!  He's gained 1.5 lbs in the last couple of months and he's eating a ton!  He's pretty sleepy, too, in this pic watching his TV show while Mommy sneaks in a shower.  He reassured me he wouldn't fall asleep though, and he didn't.

Keturah's haul!  And everything fits!  12 t-shirts, 7 long sleeve shirts, a dozen jeans/pants, another dozen leggings, a couple of shorts, and one fuzzy fleeze sweatshirt type of jacket!  All for.....$60! That's like $1.50 per item!  Score!  Plus, a lot of these are name brand like from Justice or Disney! And one of them is all about gynmanstics!  The lot also included a matching girl size and doll size shirt that says "American Girl" on it so I pulled that out before she could see it and plan to give it to her for Christmas.  She's going to be thrilled!  She needs socks, but I think I have some I can give her from my drawer.  What a blessing!

I made them work together on a project because well, Keturah needed help, and they have to learn to get along with each other.  And they figured it out and got it done.  Not perfect, but they didn't scream at each other either.

Can anyone guess what it is?  It's the walls of Ninevah!  200 ft high towers and 100 ft high walls that were so thick that three chariots could fit across them!  Plus, it was a city of 1 million!  That's crazy! 60 miles in diameter!  It would take a few days just to walk across town!

Keturah doesn't know exactly what all these things mean, but now at least she's seem them once.  The parts of a human body cell.  She also watched a video and I read to her from the science curriculum book about it.  I don't know all the details either, which does make it harder to explain things and/or dumb them down to her understanding.   Each picture has an explanation behind it with the coordinating piece of cell.

 Benaiah slept in, ate breakfast while Abishai ate lunch, went to church for a little bit to practice drums, came home, ate again, then went on his computer for most of the rest of the day.  I'm uploading pictures to Snapfish and he keeps coming in here asking when it will be done so he can have the bandwidth to play his game.  I say "never" because you've played the game a ton today, so my stuff takes priority this evening.  But on a positive note, he's pretty pumped to be playing a trivia game on in his iPod with Mr. Nanney, his school prinicpal and Benaiah is winning!  It's not all pop culture either.  Yes, Mr. Nanney is that cool of a guy.  He sees a lot of potential in all of his students, but he also recognizes Benaiah's abilities to lead and lets him.  And Benaiah is not afraid to go to him to straighten things out between himself and a student or to bring up new ideas.  I call that a huge win!