Wednesday: pears

Today Isaac got pears for the first time.  I figured they'd be easy enough to make myself, so I thought I'd do so and see if it was more economical than buying baby food pears.

I decided that I needed about 6 ice cubes worth of pears to make them come out evenly.  Two trays of ice cubes (about 24 ice cubes) later, I decided two things: 1) I put in too much water but 2) even with less water it would have still been worth the money.

Sure, it's a little bit more of a hassle, but pears were pretty easy.  Once they're ripe enough they get soft and very easy to cut and peel.  I'm planning on doing apples too, because I know they will be easy.  I might try green beans, but am not sure I'll be able to puree those smooth enough. We'll see how ambitious I feel.

We went out to eat with Dad and Pat tonight.  Pat came over a little early and helped with Isaac and it was awesome.  The kitchen was a mess and I really needed about 30 minutes and both hands to get it all finished.    I usually don't mind a messy kitchen (although I much prefer a clean one) but for some reason it was getting on my nerves.  Since I was able to get it clean, I'm hoping to do some non-repeating chores tomorrow.  Maybe empty some boxes.  At the rate we're going, I'll be finished in about two years and that isn't really acceptable.  Wish me luck.

Tuesday: polls

Once again, I find myself in the minority on one of my polls.  Most people (78%) cut their meat parallel to the fork tines.  I tried looking on-line to see if there is a "correct" way of doing it and couldn't find any info; everything talked about in which hand you're supposed to hold the knife and fork.

Since I like polls, I thought I'd start another one.  Do you sleep with your hands above your head?  It doesn't have to be all the time.  I find that I often sleep that way when I'm on my back.  Isaac often does it.

Monday: chores

Today I did some "only one time chores."  They're my favorite, as they are completely done after you do them...unlike laundry or cleaning the kitchen.

I put up some photos above our bed.

And helped Jamie clean out her closets of boy clothes.  (It was a win-win.)

Sunday: home

So it did take me two naps before I was feeling almost completely back to normal, but I did get there mid-afternoon.

Isaac is cutting his first tooth!  Ben felt it yesterday, but when I tried to verify it he was crying and it wasn't working.  So combined with a growth spurt, it makes sense that he isn't sleeping well again.  (This didn't help Ben or I last night though...hopefully tonight will be better.)

Saturday night: sick

Last night I was sick.  I took a shower after putting Isaac down, then came downstairs and told Ben I wasn't feeling great.  Half hour later I went to bed...I'm pretty sure I had a full blown fever but I didn't get up to check because I also had a headache that prevented movement.

Side note: I had a dream about the headache.  I was in a culture where there is a momentous day in every woman's life where she goes through a dream type thing that everyone has.  Usually the dream just is one copper ball being moved into place in a maze.  I had a copper ball and a platinum ball, which meant I was super special, but no one seemed to care.  It was also giving me these terrible headaches but I didn't think the doctors would know that the platinum ball was the cause.

Ben got me some Tyenol and the fever broke between 1am and 3am, but my side of the bed was soaked.  (I had just put new sheets on too!)

I'm feeling mostly better.  We'll see how the day goes. I'm very scared of being sick with a baby.

Friday: 27 weeks

Isaac turned 27 weeks today.  He really wanted to show you his open mouth.  I'm pretty sure he's going through a growth spurt and wants food.

Travis, Allison, and their kids came over tonight for dinner.  We built a fire to make hobo pies.  In this heat, it was maybe not the smartest idea, but it was still fun.  We swam in the lake while the fire was burning down...it is 82 degrees.  Nice and warm.  Maybe not super refreshing, but refreshing enough.  And Isaac will go in the water.

While were were getting the food ready, Autumn and Isaac played together.  Or, at least, Isaac played with whatever Autumn handed to him.  I think he gave her some toys at one point too.  It's nice that 1) he can sit up for long periods of time if he wants to and 2) he's starting to interact with people his own age.

Thursday: Tuesday

Today was a pretty low-key day.  We relaxed, did some work...the normal.  We let Isaac have a grape in a mesh net during lunch and he loved it.  (He did not want anything to do with it during dinner though.)  He must have gotten all the juice out because he started whining.  At least that's what we decided it was.  It was a new cry.

We were going to play a board game that is pretty much the same thing as Civilization.  Thirty minutes later we finally had it all set up and still had 2.5 pages of rules to go through.  We decided to wait until tomorrow.

The quilter is starting to run better.  There still seems to be one problem, but I found a forum and have a few things to try tomorrow.

Here are some pictures from Tuesday; it was too hot for a walk with Betsy and Ethan so we went in the pool.  (And yes, they have the same swimsuit!)

(I can't get this one to turn.  It is turned on my computer but blogger really wants it to go sideways.)