Crazy

On Sunday we took the grandparents out to eat lunch. 

The boys had a 4 day weekend due to conferences. Believe it or not, but my kids like school a lot. I think they were aching to go back for routine purpose. 

Mica was extra squirmy during lunch. He was super sound effecty all weekend. He pulled the know it all, 3rd grade attitude with us. It really drove us nuts.

Daddy wanted to hang out with his in-laws AKA my parents more after lunch. I wanted to get home to do yard work, laundry...

I knew Mica just needed to run, or something to work off that energy he had bottled up.

We stopped off at a park on the way home, and Mica ran.

Mica ran around the park twice. It's a ways. Isaak walked around once. Isaak behaved fine all weekend, so I didn't push for him to run.

I think this is what Mica needed. He didn't argue about running. He just did it.

I'm not too mean. After Mica ran the boys played. They got to be as loud as they wanted to be.

Daddy ripped Isaak's shoes off when he was pushing him. Isaak thought that was pretty funny.

I never saw them have so much fun swinging. Usually they go for the other equipment.

Mostly I got butt shots of Isaak. HA HA

Sometimes kids just need to let loose, and have fun.

We went home, and worked all day after playing!

• I sucked up leaves, processed leaves to put around trees, bushes, and put compost down over a garden spot, and put leaves over them

• Daddy mowed, and picked more peppers (it was a great year for peppers!)

• I cut all those peppers to go in the freezer

• The boys raked the front yard, an cut the sedum down

• Mica picked kale for the next day's breakfast

• Then I did 2 loads of laundry

It was a full day!

To Run or Not to Run?

The boys were picking on each other and running around the house. I thought while we went out for an errand I'd take them to a track nearby to run off their energy.

We get there. Mica ran.

I ran. I don't have a photo of me. I don't think you'd want to see me running anyhow.

Isaak sat. He pouted about how I wouldn't stay with him. I told him to run with me. He would rather sit and pout.

He is the main reason why we were there in the first place. Mr. Isaak picks on Mica. Lately he's been telling Mica, "Mica kick me." Well last week Mica kicked Isaak. Then Isaak got a mark under his eye. They both got talked to. In some ways I don't blame Mica. I would never tell Mica that though. Isaak's kind of asking for it lately. They all go through stages.

Isaak's the type of kid that's hard to convince to do something he doesn't want to do. He didn't want to run, so he just sat there. He's not always going to be able to pick and choose what he wants to do.

When it was time to leave, Isaak wanted to just keep sitting there. I told the boys to come with me. Isaak sat and sat. Mica and I just walked off. Isaak went crazy crying and ran to us. So I did get him to run a little bit.

Run Run As Fast As You Can!

Isaak now runs from me and shouts out, "Run run as fast as you can you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man."

He then runs and hides in the same spot as always, behind the chalkboard.

Usually he does this when I want him to do something that he doesn't want to do.

Competition

Mica's told us that he wants to out run Malachi at school. Apparently Malachi wins tag a lot. Mica said that as soon as breakfast was over, he was going to go practice running up and down the hill in our backyard. We have a big, hilly backyard for living in the city.

He may or may not get faster then Malachi. For sure, he'll burn off some energy and get some exercise. ;)

There is some kind of competition going on with these boys. I do know they like the same girl at school. We've been down playing that whole situation!

Then when Daddy went to go pick up Mica from school yesterday, Cammy (the girl the boys both like) says, "Bye Mica!" Daddy said, "She is uh-Door-uh-BULL!"

Lowes Build and Grow Clinic

• We went to our first Lowes Build and Grow Clinic this morning. It's for ages 7 and up, but the man that runs it says that he has all ages of kids come in. He also said that you don't actually have to register. They usually have enough kits for everyone. I registered anyhow. It's every Saturday at 10 am.
• Thanks to Grandpa Spiehs for meeting us there! He helped Isaak, while I helped Mica. Grandpa Spiehs took some hammering against his fingers. Isaak just is too little to have a lot of aim. 
• They got to keep their aprons, goggles, they got a patch and the vase they made for me for Mother's Day. All for free! We might become regulars. Now that I know what it's like, I probably don't need Grandpa's help. But I'll be the one getting my fingers hammered. LOL

• After we were done with the project's Grandpa shopped around Lowes for a bit. Mica was bouncing off the walls for some reason.
• We went two places to find two single flowers to put in the vases. No such luck. The grocery store only sold bunches of flowers, and the gas station we went to didn't have flowers at all {I've seen single roses at gas stations before}. Mica was still bouncing all over the place. He was pretty crazy. 
• On the way home I stopped by a middle school track to have the boy's run! Just to run off some energy. Mica ran/walked 1 1/2 laps, Isaak ran/walked 1 lap. Mica can run fast. Isaak's more of a lazy butt. Isaak fussed 1/2 the run/walk. Aunt Terra says that all the time about Isaak, that he's lazy. She takes them to go pick up Cousin Evan at school all the time, and Zeek wants a free ride in the stroller all the time! At least he's starting to run more. Mica's ran since he could run. 
• When we got home Mica crashed. Either I wore them out, or he now has our bug. He didn't even want to eat. Totally unlike Mica.